Thoughts on sending in vintage cards and getting lower grade from more reputable co.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

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I prefer SGC for cards in my personal collection. The black apron presents so much better for pre-war cards, and if the recent Ruth rookie abomination is any indication PSA still doesn't have a clue about presentation and esthetics with their holders.

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+1 to this. Also, it's not clear to me that PSAs standards are any tougher than SGCs at the moment. If anything, it might be the other way around.

[raulus]

Reputable is a bit of a loaded word.

I suppose in some ways we could just go straight to reputation, rather than something more substantial. So maybe there's room to debate reputation, with market for their slabs being a reasonable proxy for reputation?

Sadly, even the most reputable graders are far from infallible. And with the sheer mountain of stuff that they grade every day, there ends up being a lot more mistakes than their reputations might suggest.

And now that PSA and SGC are owned by the same larger umbrella company, I guess we can debate whether their reputations are really that divisible. Or whether they should be divisible.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

+1 to this. Also, it's not clear to me that PSAs standards are any tougher than SGCs at the moment. If anything, it might be the other way around.

Agree. SGC's grading has been brutally tough as of late. Still infinitely prefer them to PSA, as the aesthetics are so far superior it's ridiculous.

[tjisonline]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Agree. SGC's grading has been brutally tough as of late. Still infinitely prefer them to PSA, as the aesthetics are so far superior it's ridiculous.

THIS...

not enough people are talking about this. SGC's inferior / inconsistent grading has been very PSA-like for the last 10 months. Jeez, i wonder why.

[ChasingPaper]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Agree. SGC's grading has been brutally tough as of late. Still infinitely prefer them to PSA, as the aesthetics are so far superior it's ridiculous.

This is purely a matter of opinion. I know that many, like myself, think cards in PSA holders are much more aesthetically pleasing (at least when they are put in correctly sized holders). Like a piece of art hanging on a wall in a museum type look. I do agree that the cards against a black background "pop" more, but its their obnoxiously large/bulky slabs and giant number grade on the flips especially that detracts from the card inside. If that huge number grade on the flip werent so distracting, it may change my mind.