Ahh oh man I forgot they scan cards after making grades avail. I will say, some of those scans are freaking me out. Nidoking for example, those scratches better be the case. That card looks annihilated and I will go insane if they damaged a card even half… a quarter that badly. And yeah, just confirms to me, in the case of non holos, that this grader was clown. 10 quality cards getting 8’s, perfect 9’s getting 7’s.
@joetehman, I really don’t know what whitening you’re seeing. That Blastoise back was nearly perfect, barely so much as even corner cut dots. That’s a 10 looking back on most days. The other shadowless are all 7’s, and believe me, all but a few are in the same condition. It’s ridiculous. I know what you’re saying, but I know the condition of the cards in this instance. I pregraded a few of the shadowless as 8’s, but really like an 8/9 split for half, other half 9’s. Again, the biggest shock and testament to this craziness is actually the non holos. Tell me how this is not a 9 (disclaimer, no one could because it is a pearl condition wise):
shadowless porygon
10 quality centering? Of course not. But pristine pack fresh surface, and almost perfect back corner cut wise. This quality of pack fresh card gets 9’s all day every day 99.9% of the time, with that 0.1% being grader like this guy. This Porygon is testimony that half the order graded by this person is garbage and erroneous.
Thanks a lot @camrok37, appreciate it my dude. Absolutey–I didn’t picture every item, the next page was more yugioh and a few last minute slip ins, including the Vaporeon.
jungle vaporeon
Tbf, when I said played, I didn’t mean heavily. I would sell it on my ebay as a lightly played card. But still, the point is that it was very scratched on the holo from wear, and got the same grade as some cards that had none, or had but a print line. I always like to include a few weak cards in the event I get the opposite of this grader, a lenient one who gives a card a +1 from pregrade. I actually pregraded Vap a 7.
Thanks a lot @Will! Well I’m glad your second round made up for it. Hopefully that will happen to me. I mean, this is an outlier after all, odds are very in my favor, and these cards have to be cracked and graded correctly anyway (I mean, did you see that f’ing porygon?!). Thanks for sharing that amigo. Congrats on the crystal ho-oh btw!, that’s legendary and with no upcharges that’s absolute insanity and more than makes up for it. I mean jesus they upcharged my 8 blastoise. wtf haha. I agree with you, smaller batches are well worth the time and shipping. Well, well worth it.
@Dyl, the only scratching on those cards would be damage caused by PSA, save for a few that I pregraded the 8. Surely you read my OP. I make the disclaimer about my condition assessment because I’d like to avoid anyone potentially implying I’m bullshitting everyone and myself and I don’t know how to gauge condition. Both your posts kinda seem to do that, but I could be mistaken. Significant scratching? Would hope you are definitely implying that which was caused by PSA, which if that happened of course, this whole thing’s a sham either way.
When I crack certain cards like the absolute 10 worthy Misty’s Golduck that got an 8 (hard card to grade I know, but it was that clean), I’ll be happy to show just how undeserved the majority of these grades are. Cause why not. I’m just most angry at the non holo pack fresh mint (and often 10 worthy) cards, my slowbros, etc, getting 8’s, or even 7’s. The shadowless Gary is the most offensive shadowless holo. Really a beautiful mint card. For it to be given a 7, just like with shadowless pory, is all the proof needed that sometimes graders just make things up in their head or just want to give bad grades. This cardboard is not cheap to grade, it’s an outrage if you have so many blatant and unfounded misgrades, some off by 2 grades even.
