2020-21 Lafreniere Young Guns BGS grades... thoughts?

[McGuillicuddy]

I'm not a graded guy, but to me there should be one standard, and only one. Grading is supposed to be a consistent way of proving the condition of a card. Kind of throws the whole concept out the window if they have different rules for different situations.

That ship has already sailed. Not all cards are judged to the same standard. Just look at the Gretzky OPC rough cut. Such a rough cut would not be tolerated on a modern card or even other cards of that era, but the $1.3M PSA10 Gretzky RC shows it. In fact it is sought after by collectors since the absence of the rough cut could mean it was sheet cut.

The round cut Lafreniere (and I apologize for putting Gretzky and Lafreniere in the same sentence!) is much like the Gretzky where a common artifact of the manufacturing process is being considered as an acceptable deviation from the sharp corner standard of most modern cards.

 

[weasel-king]

I don't like it at all. Oh they're mis-cut or have rounded corners? That was on purpose. No, I don't buy it. As far as the grading companies, what better way to practically beg customers to send in substandard cards to grade? Allow a wide variance for 9s and 9.5s. More money in their pocket to say the die-cut corners are... acceptable. Grading companies are adding legitimacy to poorly cut cards. It further sullies my already low opinion of grading...

But that's just me.