interesting video on grading
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Interesting indeed tortoise guy
Even tho pop 9 report is the most b*****t report of them all, always innacurate
Yes itâs been known for awhile that PSA can go get fucked for their practices but until a competent competitor emerges weâre stuck with them
Ah yes the weekly âiS PsA a CoNsPiRaCyâ thread, looking forward to well-informed and reasoned arguments
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I will submit any condition 1st Ed Base Charizard to PSA, but will only submit potential Gem Mint common cards.
There is a market for most rookie cards in any grade. There isnât a market for most common sport cards sub 10. Hence why the ratios can be disproportionate, because the submissions are disproportionate.
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The maker of the video addressed this in the comments
Someone commented, âawesome research. i apologized if this was already mentioned, i didnt read all the commentsâŚbut i wonder if itâs possible that this isnt being done intentionally by PSA. is it possible that people simply submit more 9s of the super popular cards? take the 1978 topps example you used. collectors are obviously aware of how valuable a PSA10 of murray or ryan are so with anything close they may submit it for grading hoping for a 10. whereas if you take a random valueless common from the set they might be being submitted only by collectors who are trying to put together a complete PSA10 set making them far more likely to be 10s that are submitted. idk just a thought but i do find it curious that all the commentors immediately played the âPSA IS A SCAM!!!1!!!â card without offering any potential legit reasons why this might be occurring. have you also analyzed the beckett data to see if this is a phenomenon that is just specific to PSA? id be curious to see that research too.â
The response from the video maker was, "Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I have not looked at Beckett much. I did look at them for the Henderson PSA 10 data and they also graded very tough, but I think were twice as likely as PSA to give a top grade.
Other commenters have mentioned what you are talking about. I believe that collectors will submit commons that they feel are 9/10. Yes, there will be Murray cards that get submitted as 8âs or 9âs, but I donât think that dilutes the research. I would add that we can also look at the other HOFâers in those sets too. They get submitted in ways very similar to the key cards too. And with all the key cards I showed in the video, they have higher 9:10 ratios that nearly all the HOFâers too. I believe this just strengthens the conclusions in the video."
I think there was another comment where he addressed the same concern but thatâs what I found for now
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@madden12ut, Its the obvious reality.
Another aspect, charizard 1st ed is by far one of the most regraded cards. There are easily 100 regrades in the 9 population. That pattern is common with key cards and falsely inflates the 9 population.
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Yes sadly slab crackers will dilute a lot of his data points
You beat me to it lol.
(Not to mention) When I was a kid, the more popular cards with my favorite players were the ones I handled the most, while non-favorite cards were left in a box at the top of my closet.
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There is no illusion of objectivity because we know grading (with PSA or any other company) is subjective as it is done by human beings with different attention to detail, experience level, emotional state, etc.
What grading companies offer collectors is impartiality. And it is through this impartial and subjective analysis that we remove the element of discussion over card condition when buying and selling cards.
Anyone submitting cards for grading and not understanding the difference between objectivity and impartiality has no grounds to complain about the grading process in my opinion.
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