Grading Companies -- strange thought

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Pat R

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First one I thought of... You beat me to it!

[NiceDocter]

DOA..... cards never returned, always somewhere in the system
MIA...... cards lost/ never received
SOL..... declares Chapter 7 right after getting your stuff, owners in jail
EKG..... heart stopping prices
WOW.... a 10 every time
POS..... we slab anything, nothing too fake for us

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

DOA..... cards never returned, always somewhere in the system
MIA...... cards lost/ never received
SOL..... declares Chapter 7 right after getting your stuff, owners in jail
EKG..... heart stopping prices
WOW.... a 10 every time
POS..... we slab anything, nothing too fake for us

DOA=Global Authority I can't imagine how many cards Damian never returned.

[etsmith]

It might be more difficult than you think as I've seen a couple of eBay sellers with their own flips.

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by bnorth

DOA=Global Authority I can't imagine how many cards Damian never returned.

And yet he is active in the hobby, still, with Mike Baker Authentication. How about our hobby?

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by perezfan

First one I thought of... You beat me to it!

If I remember correctly there was another SCD (Sports Cards Direct?) after Sports Collectors Digest went out of business.

Lets see if this post is as strange as my last post. I capitalized the letters when I typed them but in my post they're all lower case. It even changed Peters post that I quoted to all lower case letters.

[DeanH3]

Isn't there KSA? I think they are a Canadien company that grades mostly Hockey. But I imagine there are some graded baseball cards out there.

[53toppscollector]

KSA is the Canadian company

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GMA

[MikeGarcia]

[Peter_Spaeth]

Ah yes, the infamous, short lived all white flip.

[puckpaul]

My Gretzky Rookie in SBC. Been thinking about a switch for years but not selling so haven’t.

[Svabinsky78]

Originally Posted by Pat R

If I remember correctly there was another SCD (Sports Cards Direct?) after Sports Collectors Digest went out of business.

Lets see if this post is as strange as my last post. I capitalized the letters when I typed them but in my post they're all lower case. It even changed Peters post that I quoted to all lower case letters.

Yes.

Sports Collectors Digest (SCD) was considered a reputable and accurate service. It has the red logo on the silver label. Sometime after Digest stopped its grading service, a new "SCD" appeared......Sports Cards Direct. Sports Card Direct used a similar silver label but with blue logo. Sports Card Direct = POS.

Similar thing happened with GAI. The original GAI was considered, generally, to be a reputable and accurate grader. Friends of mine had picked up old GAI card and successfully crossed them over to PSA and SGC. The original GAI had the silver label with the G in the little globe. At some point GAI, essentially, went out of business and the folks that remained, phoenixed GAI into Global Authority.....which became a flaming tire.

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