Raleighwood007

On 7/14/2022 at 12:58 PM, redfoxdutchman said:

You can't compare POP reports from PSA and CSG from cards from the 70's and 80's. A lot of those cards you gave as evidence of CSG being a tougher grader have been in PSA slabs for over 10 years. As time goes on, there are less high grade cards that are raw. A lot of the best cards have been graded already and also cards that are 30 year olds will have more opportunities to be damaged. You also need to consider a PSA 9 from 10 years ago is not the same way they grade today. That is why PSA new lighthouse slabs go for more money for the same grade. They grade tougher right now.

If you want to do this comparison, you need to compare cards from 2020 on. You also need to be careful about looking at POP reports. CSG changed their grading scale, eased up on surface grading according to Andy Broome on YouTube interviews, and changed their centering standards. 

I don’t buy into all the best cards have been graded BS theory! Im willing to bet there are way more people out there that have taken extremely good care of their cards & never paid to have a single card graded then there are people out there that have paid to have cards graded! I’m of the opinion that cards should be graded on their merits alone & that the amount of high grades previously given out for the same card should play absolutely zero role in regards to the grading scale the card is graded on! Simply put a 10 should be a 10 & a 9 should be a 9 etc & Not a 10 being graded an 8 bc there have already been to many of the card submitted that were given 10’s & 9’s regardless if they were earned high grades or not! I find it extremely disappointing when I come across 2 of the same card that have both been graded by PSA where any layman could decipher that the lower graded card is in better condition then the higher graded card & I’ve unfortunately come across this exact situation way to many times to count that this was clearly the case at hand! It’s quite funny that in pretty much every single said situation I come across that the barcode/serial # on the card w/ the card w/ the clearly less deserving higher grade the serial/barcode #’s just so happens to be lower indicating it was graded before the card that’s in better condition but somehow having the lower of the 2 grades which is clearly not a coincidence!