I can see that, different way of looking at it.
I guessed that was probably what it was, but wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt that they werenât so childish.
I think @pfm summed up my feelings perfectly; PSA are fine, but this feels like a money-grabbing opportunity spurred on by the popularity of CGCâs error grading, rather than development because theyâre trying to improve of their own accord.
âŚWhich again, is fine, but knowing PSAâs MO, weâre going to end up with some errors acknowledged on labels, while others are completely ignored.
The proof will be in the pudding on this one.
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I agree itâs dirty and didnât even think about the market share theyâre trying to take away from CGC, rather the gift to collectors for those that appeal for these types of things.
I will say that doesnât surprise me that PSA is attempting to do this. Just because youâre on top of the mountain, doesnât mean itâs a permanent thing. PSA wants to stay there.
Businesses are always actively trying to stay in the black. Itâs all part of the game. Dirty or not.
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Thinking out loud (donât mind me, I have no dog in this fight lol) - thereâs no question to me PSA is grabbing market share (or trying to) by doing this, but if itâs solely a money play, what incentive would they have to only recognize some errors and not all of the ones recognized by other grading companies?
For the record, I donât care why PSA did this, itâs the consumer benefit of healthy competition. I just never liked how they do their errors. If they really want to compete with CGC, they have to step it up majorly
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They may not have done enough research to approve the other errors that are known out there, or they donât care.
I suspect if theyâre doing these, they are open to do more.
At that point, why choose CGC when PSA can do it?
I realize saying that will open a can of worms and itâs not meant to, as we all have a preference on grading companies depending on our likes and needs.
Itâs more so from the perspective of theyâre seen as the best in the grading community, why go somewhere else?
As someone who collects errors, I think this is great.
Iâm just not looking forward to the Blaziken69ers listing these new labels with âPOP 1!!!â in the title and asking prices at 10x the last sold price. 
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Thatâs what Iâd love to find out, whether theyâre confident/willing to stake their name on some of the more âout thereâ errors that other companies are willing to grade, or whether theyâll stick to the more well known stuff like the Fossil stain cards?
The only reason Iâve mentioned their (possible) motivation behind this, is that itâd probably have an impact on their interest/reliability in documenting unique errors properly, or just sticking to the stuff thatâs âsafeâ and easily verifiableâŚor just lazy, like black dot zord.
@gengarbrigade I could only really say the error text is where PSA canât compete. Thereâs barely any room on the label anyway, so any lengthy error description is going to be abbreviated to hell.
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I can see that in the beginning of listings, hopefully dropping off the more that hits the market. But there will always be some that will attract new collectors that arenât educated
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Doesnât CGC put the error title on the back of their slabs? PSA probably already knows. I hope they donât do that.
Thatâs fair. The somewhat cynical side of me thinks the board room discussion around this error could easily be âyeah, there are a bunch of errors out there, but everyone wants Charizard! We are atleast doing this one. Everyone will resubmit their error Zardy bois!â
To CGCâs credit, conceptually it does seem a little silly that itâs now 2023 and PSA is still constrained on their ability to put a full description on the slab by virtue of their labeling 
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Yeah, thatâs CGCâs approach to making room. I canât see PSA ever putting details on the back of their labelsâŚbut if they ever get desperate enough for space, who knows?!
I expect that if PSA do go properly into recognising all kinds of errors, then theyâll end up with a blanket âInk Err./Holo Err./Misalignmentâ etc type description to save space.
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I have lots of cards with âscratchâ and âstainâ errors. I look forward to each of them getting this recognition. I just hope they differentiate between my peanut butter stains and my ketchup stains
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Will this mess with the pop reports, or will it just be listed with an error label?
Have 4 or 5 variants I would need reslabbed with the error label if so.
Cant wait to se a dragon ball super card with an error in a psa slab.
BT3-123 Hyper Evolution Super Saiyan 4 Son Goku (SCR) 5th Anniversary FOIL DBS
Will become
2020 DBS 5th An
HE SS 4 S Gok Foil
Scr ink holo err
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Only for one-off errors or cards with a printing error. There are plenty of repeatable errors that are shown on the front of the slab.
Hereâs one of mine with a repeating error
And a different card with an obstruction error thatâs a non-repeating error
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is there a database to see which errors theyâll except? Curious if theyâll take holo shifts and texture shifts.
I am impressed with the âincorrect holo errorâ on the zard. Seems like theyâll try to pay attention
There is a separate row entry for error cards now, they would most likely need to be reslabbed. Probably free of charge though
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Even though it might sound like I just want to rag on PSA and their business practices (I donât, because I have enough of a PSA slab collection too), this is the actual one area that I will crucify them at every opportunity - itâs like they havenât even discovered Microsoft Word yet⌠theyâll evolve to using Comic Sans before they ever crack resizing text.
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RIP set registry collectors
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