FREE Card Grading!

[E93]

This is a terrible idea for the hobby. They only get paid if they give you the grade you like? So their incentive is to overgrade and overlook doctoring. That is how they get paid. It is ridiculous. GAI is a joke. It is a desperation act. Thankfully nobody with any knowledge of the hobby uses them to grade cards any longer.
JimB

[chaddurbin]

this is an old concept. gai and beckett used to have on-site prescreens. gai would literally take 15-20sec per card under a loupe and yellow lamp and assign a sticker grade to it. cards with grades you like they take back to the office to slab, the ones you don't want slabbed you keep.

they are probably world-class graders as they can spot minute imperfection/assign grade/detect alteration all within first glance...

[Frank A]

Instantly, all the naysayers show up with a down comment. WHY? Are you all experts as to the service? I thing its a great idea. I never had aproblem with the old GAI and don't see why I should now. We always seem to get a few guys with a bug up their A$$ that start a problem with every post. Do you guys just sit around all day thinking of someones balls you can bust. Get a life.

[HRBAKER]

If it's the same company/graders that have been purportedly grading trimmed/alterted cards with numerical grades, what difference is it if it's free? Who wants it.