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Originally Posted by BioCRN
I get the general consensus on grading yesterday vs grading today, but in this thread the recently graded Ruth is a strongly questionable "3" with the 2 major creases, the nearly non-existent corners, and the major edge damage (front and back).
Someone else posted an oldschool graded SGC "3" of the exact card in this thread that blows away the modern graded one.
It's a casual consensus that oldschool grading is more lenient than modern grading, but it's still far from being something you can take for granted.
Most of the cards I'm still out there hunting are mostly commons, even if some are rare, and I've passed on more than a few in PSA/SGC 2-4 condition graded modern because they look like ass compared to the number slapped on the slab. That's even taking in account the differences in grading for lower-graded stuff between the two companies (such as marks on a card can still get a SGC 2 - 2.5).
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It's not just old vs new grading. Buy 100 PSA 10s at random off ebay, they can all be new grades even, crack and resubmit, how many 10s do you think you will get? Better yet, buy them from 4SC.
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Last edited by Peter_Spaeth; 10-26-2025 at 02:23 PM.
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