# The Giant Professional Grading Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Grading\ **Tags:** popular, mega-thread\ **Created:** [December 5, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930 "2020-12-05T03:31:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 264
**Author:** ![Pbali](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/pbali/32/360_2.png) [@Pbali](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Pbali)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5302 "2022-08-18T18:24:42Z")
In addition to checking for creases/bends, also check to see if either stamp comes through to the back of the card as that sometimes happens. ---
**Author:** ![mrpandachum](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/mrpandachum/32/239007_2.png) [@mrpandachum](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/mrpandachum)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 6:36pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5303 "2022-08-18T18:36:03Z")
I’m honestly still trying to find what is wrong with my card if there is even something wrong with it but thats what you get sometimes 🥲 ![img159](https://www.elitefourum.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/7/57a88713db86b15cbbf0ce745f33c7c2becb581d.jpeg) ![img160](https://www.elitefourum.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/2/6225408c8546034be3199a2e7504cf3f3f59156f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Caith\_Sith](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/caith_sith/32/27332_2.png) [@Caith\_Sith](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Caith_Sith)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5304 "2022-08-18T18:55:16Z")
can you take a closer picture from the left top corner? I think it have like a small piercing/perforation there? anyway, the card it’s pretty cool! ![6225408c8546034be3199a2e7504cf3f3f59156f](https://www.elitefourum.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/f/4f18a2b7b1e4cf3116bb2648551106402a7e6b5d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![needszeebs](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/needszeebs/32/1811_2.png) [@needszeebs](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/needszeebs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 6:57pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5305 "2022-08-18T18:57:49Z")
I just sent a rescue team pikachu in! Pmd fans rise up My order arrived monday and is still on arrived. Not sure how long the process normally takes as its my first time, but ive definitely been checking it every few hours lmao ---
**Author:** ![mrpandachum](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/mrpandachum/32/239007_2.png) [@mrpandachum](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/mrpandachum)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 7:40pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5306 "2022-08-18T19:40:16Z")
I checked just now and its just a speck of dust on the case 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![umjammerdanny](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/umjammerdanny/32/26469_2.png) [@umjammerdanny](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/umjammerdanny)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 8:22pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5307 "2022-08-18T20:22:17Z")
one of my value subs hasn’t been entered for 16 days now and no movement on any other orders for 10 days 🤧 ---
**Author:** ![jeverstones](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/jeverstones/32/2424_2.png) [@jeverstones](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/jeverstones)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5308 "2022-08-18T21:43:52Z")
My orders have been sitting in grading for a while, too, after a rather quick start. ---
**Author:** ![cardstockpile](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/cardstockpile/32/26554_2.png) [@cardstockpile](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/cardstockpile)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5309 "2022-08-18T22:21:44Z")
For reference - Value order ($30 tier/90 card sub) entered 6/14/22 just hit QA1 today ---
**Author:** ![joer](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/joer/32/131558_2.png) [@joer](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/joer)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5310 "2022-08-18T22:49:28Z")
Probably knock a grade. If everything is perfect then it can still get a 9 potentially. ---
**Author:** ![alienlien](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/alienlien/32/1136_2.png) [@alienlien](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/alienlien)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5311 "2022-08-18T23:01:33Z")
Wtf PSA. Pre grades ![Screenshot_20220819_085741_com.android.gallery3d](https://www.elitefourum.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/2/32384ba6e2d93657124b6bc89689dabd04d75888.jpeg) Post grades ![Screenshot_20220819_085932_com.psacard.certverification](https://www.elitefourum.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/7/47b75cd5509bd4fae068873033a817e18f80a569.jpeg) Clearly a crease appeared ---
**Author:** ![mrpandachum](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/mrpandachum/32/239007_2.png) [@mrpandachum](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/mrpandachum)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5312 "2022-08-18T23:04:01Z")
ouch I’ve never done it before but I remember someone getting compensated for a damaged card by PSA ---
**Author:** ![tcgmaine](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/tcgmaine/32/240087_2.png) [@tcgmaine](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/tcgmaine)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5313 "2022-08-19T01:54:03Z")
Yeah, my July special arrived 8/3 and wasn’t entered until 8/17, so it took a bit! ---
**Author:** ![tcgmaine](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/tcgmaine/32/240087_2.png) [@tcgmaine](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/tcgmaine)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 1:55am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5314 "2022-08-19T01:55:13Z")
I’m glad you said that! Just checked mine and it’s in QA1 as well! ---
**Author:** ![onomis](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/onomis/32/244_2.png) [@onomis](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/onomis)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 7:15am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5315 "2022-08-19T07:15:11Z")
It actually looks like the crease was there in the first picture, the top of the card isn’t completely straight 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![mrpandachum](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/mrpandachum/32/239007_2.png) [@mrpandachum](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/mrpandachum)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 7:20am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5316 "2022-08-19T07:20:58Z")
Take a look at the “T” in trainer. there’s a small white crease line you can visibly see in the slab, but it is not in the original picture. ---
**Author:** ![needszeebs](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/needszeebs/32/1811_2.png) [@needszeebs](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/needszeebs)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5317 "2022-08-19T19:26:20Z")
yea, there’s some surface indentation(?) from the yellow border, down, kinda between the T and R of trainer ---
**Author:** ![kazambolt](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/kazambolt/32/2208_2.png) [@kazambolt](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/kazambolt)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5318 "2022-08-19T19:29:08Z")
These get distributed in plastic cases that are way too large for a small number of unsleeved cards, so edgewear (or worse on the edges) and surface dings and other issues are likely. Few of the Top X Festivals ever get even a 9, let alone a 10. ---
**Author:** ![SeasidePokemon](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/seasidepokemon/32/237121_2.png) [@SeasidePokemon](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/SeasidePokemon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5319 "2022-08-19T19:54:48Z")
It almost looks like the indent is a V like on the Vstar cards and what not. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![mars](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/mars/32/30913_2.png) [@mars](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/mars)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5320 "2022-08-21T22:49:55Z")
I have what I think might be a stupid question, but am curious. There’s a couple very niche cards I would really like to own in a PSA 10. The POP for them are extremely small, some don’t even have any 10s graded. I’ve been slowly trying to buy mint raw copies to submit. If I were to submit all that I think have a chance at a 10, I’m sure a bunch would still end up being 9s. Is it better off just sending all of them in at once and hoping for the best, or doing more staggered submissions to not flood the population? ---
**Author:** ![Dyl](https://efour.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/www.elitefourum.com/dyl/32/234623_2.png) [@Dyl](https://www.elitefourum.com/u/Dyl)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 11:40pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930/5321 "2022-08-21T23:40:40Z")
> [@mars](#): > > I have what I think might be a stupid question, but am curious. No such thing as a stupid question! > [@mars](#): > > Is it better off just sending all of them in at once and hoping for the best, or doing more staggered submissions to not flood the population? If your goal is to own the PSA 10 copy, then I would send in as many copies as possible to increase your chance of a 10. You can always sell/trade the extras. If your goal is to keep the population small to increase/retain the value of the PSA 10, then a staggered approach is fine. Just realize that you are potentially wasting _time_ when you stagger your submissions, and sometimes time is more important than money/value. [Previous page](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930.md?page=263) [Next page](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/the-giant-professional-grading-thread/30930.md?page=265)