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pasDunno about this.
Dean's Cards tends to use GAI to grade most of our lower priced graded cards because of better service and lower cost. In my opinion, GAI has a much more consistent product. The "downside" to GAI is that they tend to grade a half to a full grade harder than PSA.
GAI is particularly tough on pre-war cards, whereas PSA and the other companies tend to relax their standards just a bit for these older cards. Quite often our customers will buy a card graded by GAI, remove it from the case, submit it to PSA and receive a grade that is a half-grade to full grade higher than the grade given by GAI.