Thoughts on grading

[ptowncoug3012]

I figured the stamp idea wouldn't fly.
I guess there is a opportunity to create a system that somehow uniquely identifies a card preventing it from being re-graded without sticking some sort of ink on it, huh?
I would love to be able to trust the POP reports. Only safe assumption as to the POP reports is that there is less cards graded than the POP reports reflect because there are PSA and SGC cracked slabs that get crossed over to the other company or cracked and resubmitted raw to the same company.

[Section103]

I'd be against the stamping idea, but what I would like to see is owners being able to send in grading labels to the original companies so that they could alter their population databases accordingly. In the end, it's probably not a big deal and there's not much in it for the TPG, but if better information is always possible, then Im for it.

[old-baseball]

I personally haven't tried breaking a card out of a slab and resubmitting it but I have one that I'm tempted to try with. One of the thing that I have done is send in larger groups of cards from the same set and typically I try to pick the cards so that there is not a huge swing in grades - for example I'd send in cards from the same set that I thought were a few VG ot VGEX, a bunch of EX cards and some EX+ or better. In this case, because the majority of cards are in nice shape the VG might go to VGEX and the VGEX might bump to EX. I had just the opposite happen recently where I sent in 30 lower grade cards from the same set, knowing there were a couple Fair, some Good, some VG and some VGEX. I look at some of these and wonder if I had sent them in with all the nicer cards if they would have graded higher. Has anybody else noticed this?

[M's_Fan]

Originally Posted by old-baseball

I personally haven't tried breaking a card out of a slab and resubmitting it but I have one that I'm tempted to try with. One of the thing that I have done is send in larger groups of cards from the same set and typically I try to pick the cards so that there is not a huge swing in grades - for example I'd send in cards from the same set that I thought were a few VG ot VGEX, a bunch of EX cards and some EX+ or better. In this case, because the majority of cards are in nice shape the VG might go to VGEX and the VGEX might bump to EX. I had just the opposite happen recently where I sent in 30 lower grade cards from the same set, knowing there were a couple Fair, some Good, some VG and some VGEX. I look at some of these and wonder if I had sent them in with all the nicer cards if they would have graded higher. Has anybody else noticed this?

I've submitted cards that earned an SGC 70 along with cards that earned SGC 20 and 10. I don't think submitting cards in like groups makes a difference, but that's just my experience.