|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: leon
Can someone explain how this MemoryLane E98 got a 5? This would be an SGC 30 (2),imo.... (note, no underprint though....so it's got that going for it) |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Too bad the Memory Lane auction failed to include the picture on the right. I guess you can't trust that when PSA grades a card a 5 that it doesn't have significant paper loss on the back. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: leon
In MemoryLane's defense this card had been slabbed before they ever got it..... |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: robert
Grading really is silly. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Matt
Jeff - upon initial read I thought you were saying they left the back scan out of their printed catalog, which is common practice. However, you meant in the online auction: |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Jeff Lichtman
Exactly. I'd hate to have bid on that 5 thinking I was getting a.....5. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Paul Kaufman
PSA has been ignoring small areas of paper loss, both front and back, for a couple of years now. For this reason, SGC set collectors can no longer trust PSA pre-war grades sight unseen to cross over at the same grade. PSA has become a real crap shoot. |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: david Poses
Leon, |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: boxingcardman
Missing it more likely. Takes an extra 10 seconds to flip over the card and look at the back after all. That's no way to run the McDonalds of grading. You need turnover and production. Besides, what do you expect for ten bucks (or 20 or 30 or...you get the idea). |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Ricky Y
With PSA there is a lot of inconsistency. My biggest beef is they use the term "eye appeal" to often bump up the grade. For example, I see higher grades on cards that are often poor in quality and really doesn't meet the terms of a particular grade,( the entire set is on poor card stock, has a lot of miscuts, diamond cuts, OC etc) but, because they look "decent for that set" (not as OC as majority of the card, but still way OC) they still get a higher grade and often with no qualifers. |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: JimB
"With PSA there is a lot of inconsistency. My biggest beef is they use the term "eye appeal" to often bump up the grade." |
#12
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Paul Kaufman
A similar situation arose when coin grading matured......it got to the point where you could not buy a graded coin sight unseen due to sellers taking advantage of "technical" high grade specimens that had little or no eye appeal. These days, you almost always need a scan of front and back of a card graded by PSA, absent the ideal situation of seeing it in person. |
#13
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Bob
Wow, I've been bidding on this card never knowing about the back. Thanks! |
#14
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Scott Sarian
I agree with JimB's point that there seems to be something wrong if people are paying more for "strong" cards with great "eye appeal" but have a low technical grade. Take for instance the pictured E121 Walter Johnson which I own. It received a PSA 1 (and since crossed to an SGC 20) due to a couple of very minor paper loss spots on the back. I would MUCH rather have this card, than a card with the same grade and no paper loss but with creases, rounded corners, etc. |
#15
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Steve Murray
I agree with you completely. |
#16
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Erick Lewin
Wow...That Johnson is great, it's got even sharper corners and a crisper image than the brown that got the 5! It's defintaley not an exact science with PSA it seems. |
#17
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: jdrum
I suspect the secret is all in who submits the card. Dunno, but just a cynical guess. |
#18
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: Dan Koteles
exackalackaly ! |
#19
|
|||
|
|||
E98 Brown PSA5...nice back too...
Posted By: David Goff
Leon |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
FS/T206 Chase PSA5 & T201 Brown/Hofman SGC 70 | Archive | Tobacco (T) cards, except T206 B/S/T | 2 | 09-28-2008 08:44 PM |
Nice PSA T206 & T212s ending NOW- Abbatcchio Brown Sl. Old Mill PSA5 Baker nice Psa4 etc | Archive | Ebay, Auction and other Venues Announcement- B/S/T | 1 | 01-22-2008 05:59 PM |
e98 Minor Brown SOLD | Archive | Pre-WWII cards (E, D, M, W, etc..) B/S/T | 2 | 12-26-2007 10:19 PM |
f/s: e93 joss sgc50 $900, e98 brown psa5 $1700 | Archive | Pre-WWII cards (E, D, M, W, etc..) B/S/T | 0 | 10-04-2007 11:58 AM |
T206 Young hand psa5, baker psa5 | Archive | Tobacco (T) cards, except T206 B/S/T | 0 | 02-06-2006 07:36 PM |