PSA Grading - Think I'm Done With Them

[MMarch]

Just got my grading email for the Gretzky I sent in, they graded it a 7. Not sure why, maybe I got a newbie or someone having a bad day, but this card is nicer then a bunch of 8's I have seen and owned. Probably going to bust it out of it's slab when it gets here and send it to BVG. I bet if I resubmit it to PSA in a month it comes back with a different grade. Anything in these scans make you believe it should be graded lower then an 8?

 

[qwas]

Centering, if it was resubmitted it would come back a 7 or an 8 oc.

 

[Boom Boom]

Its not even centered. I wouldnt complain about that grade, it couldve been even lower.

 

[MMarch]

Centering is actually pretty good comparitively, the scans make it appear more off then it really is. Even if it was 60/40, it shouldn't lower the grade by more then 1. Surface, edges, corners, color, etc are all dead on, so at the worst it should be an 8 in my opinion. The guys at the local shop looked at it, and compared to hundreds of other graded cards they have in their case, they thought it would be an easy 8 with a shot at a 9. I don't get paid to grade cards though, so it's up to the graders and not much I can do.

 

[Stadium Sports]

I don't see -3 .... I know we are only seeing a scan but I have seen 8's more off centered.

 

[ronbev765]

The centering is what killed it. One low score takes it all down. ronbev

 

[MMarch]

Disheartened to say the least, I really thought I had an 8 or a 9 with this one but oh well. Not going to mess with having it regraded, I'll just sell it and look for another primo copy to get graded.

 

[Go Hawks]

here is mine if you want to compare:

thanks

 

[marclemagnifique]

I see a near mint surface also. Lot of white spots on it. Maybe it is due to the scanner. From what I see, centering is more 30/70

 

[MMarch]

My scanner hasn't been cleaned in probably 8 years, the spots are just dust spots. The centering on mine is much better then Go Hawks, maybe I should send it in to BVG.

 

[newfiecomicguy1]

They will only grade 1 grade hiher then the lowest grade, I suspect that the centering killed the grade for you.

 

[tiger tiger]

yeah...I've seen some cards get downgraded big time just because of centering. Personally, I think sharp corners are harder to come by, but that's me.