On a more serious note, I do think PSA have room for improvement. Of 39 graded Pichus I own, 3 of them are mislabelled: one has the wrong set, one has the correct number but is listed as a Pikachu, and the other is the one I shared in my previous post. Whilst that’s a 92% success rate, that’s also a 8% failure rate, which really isn’t good enough when a lot of these issues can be easily resolved by paying a bit more attention to each card.
My main issue with PSA’s labelling QA process isn’t the mistakes on their part, however, it’s instead the lack of uniformity surrounding certain key terms. In the PCG-P set I own 3 different cards whose labels feature different variations of “McDonald’s”: “MCDONALDS”, “McDONALDS” and “McDONALD’S”. I’d have thought that for frequently reused terms - especially company names - PSA would have some standards surrounding how the label is written, but clearly that isn’t the case:
