How did this Paige RC end up in this holder?

[bnorth]

It's actually part of a new program. They grade the card on its potential grade after some work to clean/improve it has happened. Sometimes they forget to add the (PG) Potential Grade qualifier. Just a clerical error, nothing to see here.

[brianp-beme]

How did this Paige RC end up in this holder?

I don't claim to be that smart, but I do believe a SGC worker placed the card between the two plastic sides of the holder before it was taken to the encapsulating machine at the SGC facility.


Brian (this is not my grandparent's graded 5 Paige card, that's for sure)

[raulus]

Just spitballing here...

I wonder if this is a case of the ole' switcheroo. Hard to know for sure, but maybe another card from the same order was graded 5, and this one was graded 2, but when they put them into the slabs, they mixed them up.

Had this happen a few months ago with PSA, where the PSA 3 card ended up in the PSA 1 slab, and vice-versa.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by raulus

Just spitballing here...

I wonder if this is a case of the ole' switcheroo. Hard to know for sure, but maybe another card from the same order was graded 5, and this one was graded 2, but when they put them into the slabs, they mixed them up.

Had this happen a few months ago with PSA, where the PSA 3 card ended up in the PSA 1 slab, and vice-versa.

I had the same thing happen with 2 T205 Chase variations. They got the variations right but the grades backwards. Was very confusing to explain, but they did get it right eventually. So if a less than honest person got two back with the grades reversed and kept the ugly one in the 5 holder and then resubmitted the nice one after cracking it from the 2 holder, voila, for one extra grading fee they make thousands of extra dollars.

[Fred]

Bottom line - does anybody think that someone will pay the $$$ that go along with the same card correctly graded? Or is it believed that people will actually draw that line in the sand and this time say - NO WAY.

I see it and I see at most a "2" but believe if it ended up in an AUTH holder, I could easily understand why.

Do TPGs take pictures or scan cards for cards like this that have a certain $$ threshold? If so, it'd be interesting to see that picture from SGC.

How many graders review a card? I can't believe two people could come up with the same conclusion on that grade.

If SGC wanted, could they pull the cert and cancel it without the owners consent? What happens when a circumstance like that comes up?

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Fred

Bottom line - does anybody think that someone will pay the $$$ that go along with the same card correctly graded? Or is it believed that people will actually draw that line in the sand and this time say - NO WAY.

Now if it was in a PSA holder…

[vthobby]

Originally Posted by raulus

Now if it was in a PSA holder…

It would be an 8 all day!

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Fred

Do TPGs take pictures or scan cards for cards like this that have a certain $$ threshold? If so, it'd be interesting to see that picture from SGC.

Fred - if I understood the above commentary correctly, the above scans are from SGC.

I'm not sure what SGC's policy is for scanning cards. My understanding is that PSA scans just about everything (maybe even everything) these days. There was a window of time when PSA only scanned cards that were submitted above a certain service level, but if I remember correctly, they've lowered that standard to start scanning everything.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by bnorth

It's actually part of a new program. They grade the card on its potential grade after some work to clean/improve it has happened. Sometimes they forget to add the (PG) Potential Grade qualifier. Just a clerical error, nothing to see here.

Now that was funny!