Let’s face it, cert number debates are never going away, and it’s fun to share PSA 9s with a chunk missing, an off center Black Label, or a CGC pristine with more surface scratching than my Honda.
Feel free to post any cards here you feel are overgraded by PSA, CGC, or BGS.
That’s not what this thread was for haha.
Post a 9 when its a 7 at best, for example
There are two cards in my master set that I would like to condition upgrade someday. Every once and a while, I’ll pull cards from my display cabinet and look at them in the dark with a flashlight just to observe the condition to remind myself that I am probably too tough of a pregrader.
One of the two cards makes me wince whenever I look at it. I know XY QA is rough, and I’ve purchased several “pack fresh” cards in similar condition.
The card looks fine at first glance until you look at the back and it becomes obvious once you observe it.
If I were to grade it now, I am guessing it’d most likely be a PSA 8. Maybe a PSA 7 if my grader were working on a Monday.
I’m nominating @beccazican because I know he has a card that’s more beautiful than this one.
Edit: I don’t know all of the pictures aren’t displaying if a mod could help me.
Many of the Japanese DPPt shiny PSA 10s are strong 9s at best imo. It’s crazy the amount of 10s I’ve seen with noticeable front chipping.
I think there is a bug when there are two slide-shows for images (<div data-theme-slick="1">...</div>) in the same post. 
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I’ve changed the top one to a grid, and now the second one does show up as expected.
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PSA 9 with a dent above Charmeleon’s head. I have a couple of these that might be worth sending to PSA all at once for the grade guarantee
This card has some light damage to each corner and strong damage on one of the edges. AND IT IS A PSA 9 !!!
I have wondered from time to time (if there were more talented people out there than me) that can replace cards from a slab? That would certainly explain some of the over-rated gradings.
More seriously, switching a card out out a slab and resealing it likely accounts for nearly zero of the examples you see of an overgraded card.
Grading is not a perfect science, and the criteria that grading companies have established have some grey area. Sometimes someone is going quickly on a Friday afternoon and overlook something, and QA isn’t always as meticulous as we may think. Grades are manually entered, and sometimes it’s just a mistake. Pokemon wasn’t always worth the $ it is today, and at times may not have been looked at as closely as a football card, for example.
Lots of possibilites, but card swapping is a negligible % of overgraded cards out there.
The PSA 10 Tropical Mega Battle Lucky Stadium that sold a few months ago on Heritage comes to mind. I understand 10s aren’t inherently perfect cards, but that 10 had quite a bit of whitening:
Oh this is a fun thread.
There are so many over graded cards floating around it is insane.
I’ll personally add almost ANY PSA 10 Neo 4 Shining ever graded.
I would never buy a PSA 10 of these simply as they are often all PSA 8s.
BGS 8 Jolteon with a very noticeable surface crease. I guess the other subs lifted that grade up quite a bit.
