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Al C.risafulliAmerican Beauties are awesome cards and I'm sorry they didn't grade out as high as you had hoped they would.
That said, this whole episode is a shame. As I understand it, you tore up a pretty nice display piece in hopes that you could take advantage of PSA's pop reports and get some 10s that would have sold for a ton of money. When the cards didn't grade out the way you had hoped, you got on a public message board, bashed PSA and called them crooked. Yet if you had gotten 10s instead of whatever you got, you would have been perfectly happy to play PSA's game and take advantage of the registry folks who would pay a premium for 10s.
So basically, if the system had worked in your favor, everything would have been fine. Because it didn't, PSA is crooked.
As far as I can see, the only loser here is the beautiful display piece that got torn up over this.
-Al