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Posted By: scgaynor

A note about GAI grading. I once submitted at the Ft Washington show a 1959 Bazooka with full borders for the GAI quick grade. It was neatly cut with square corners and straight edges. I had just bought a handful and the grading was only like $3 a card. When I went to pick up the card, they returned it to me as trimmed. It was clear, just from the look on the guys face, that he had no idea what a 1959 Bazooka card even was. My response was "No kidding" if it was not trimmed it would still be attached to a box of Bazooka Bubble Gum.

I found in humerous that even though they didn't know what a 1959 Bazooka card was, they still kept my $3 grading fee for looking at it.

I have not had this problem with SGC, but otherwise it seems to me that once these grading companies get outside of the mainstream run of the mill cards, they are completely lost.

Scott