This grader at PSA needs to grade my cards, anyone want in?

I generally don’t post these kinds of items, but a PSA 5 with paper loss in two spots on this level of card…SGC is really hard on this but PSA apparently doesn’t care..LOL

It's when I see things like this I say why bother spending any money having cards graded....good lord, these guys can detect the smallest trim..but hunks of paper missing; he must have been sick for that day of grader school huh.


http://cgi.ebay.com/1909-T206-T-206-Ty-Cobb-Portrait-Green-Back-PSA-5-EX_W0QQitemZ360019684222QQihZ023QQcategoryZ86840QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem




Each of these S.League cards has the small spot where tape use to be..equals PSA 2...



Got to love grading....

I think the older grades a 8 and the card a 2, therefore the median grade is a 5. I don't see the problem.

Lee

IMHO, the staining alone would drop the card to a five. Then, we all know that a card with paperloss (much less two spots) can grade no higher than GD. All this equals a PSA 2 (I am in agreement with Wonka, as usual)!

John- BTW, you have an EYE and a half at picking up great looking cards - especially for the grades. As clean as your Kleinow Red Hindu is, I would have given it a PSA 5 before this Cobb any day!

This reminds me of something I was discussing with Mark Turner a few weeks back. When GAI was grading TOUGH, I was using them, instead of SGC at the time for my grading. When I went to sell my cards, instead of cracking them out and playing the grading games, I sold them as they were (all undergraded by at least a grade). Turns out that I made money on EVERY card (mainly b/c I bought them right) and I got some amazing feedback from ebayers - quite a few stating the cards look "much better" than their grades!

I did have some 15 CJ's that GAI SLAMMED! All were horizontals and GAI graded them 2's and 2.5's. These I cracked out, as they were all VG/EX and EX cards. I sent these to SGC and all of them came back either 50's or 60's!