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My rayquaza binder now has two incomplete pages. On one hand I’m sad because of that, but I could never afford game show rayquaza either way. Very happy with this pair!
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RAYYYYYY RAYYYYYY RAHHHHHH
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My brothers first booster box ever, he hits a god pack and the zard, Erika was from my box 
Both graded nicely
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Here’s a big one, for context this card was owned by a friend who used Gma during the great grading shutdown of 2020-2021 when people were opening up new companies every week 
. Upon trading I valued it at Bgs 9.5, cracked and sent to PSA.
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To follow up on this: cards came back today, I thoroughly inspected this card and couldn’t find any dents or scratches that would drop it 6 or 7, let alone a 4 
Just to get on my soapbox a bit: I can understand grading standards seemingly changing from one submission to the next since each are different graders, but when it seems like grading standards were all over the place in a single submission, that’s when it’s frustrating. Oh well, we all agree to it when we play the great grading game.
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Got the grades for a bulk sub. Around 60 packfresh Aquapolis reverses among them. Except for 1 PSA 10 it’s 8’s and 9’s all over the submission.
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Crack and resub time 
Have you all ever noticed trends in submissions between different service levels. i.e. bulk gets poorer grades than express which has graders notes
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No. I’ve had more lenient and harsher grades from every tier tbh, guess it just depends who has your cards in their hands that day
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Makes sense, was curious what people think
Conspiratorially it makes sense for them to grade the higher tiers easier so 1) People continue to use them and pay up 2) They can upcharge to even more money when they grade high
In practice…nah I haven’t seen any difference lol
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It doesn’t even really make sense as a conspiracy to be honest. If it came out that they incentivize the use of more expensive tiers, it would ruin their reputation and kill their business.
On top of that they generate far more revenue at the bulk tiers because of the volume involved. Discouraging the use of their bulk tiers would be a net negative for them.
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Spinda thoughts ??? But possibly we should consider that there was never a guarantee of consistency and the real good grades were the friends we made along the way
Jokes aside every grader uses a scoring sheet. The fact that they don’t share those score sheets with the customer when you get your grades back should say everything needed. Previously you could pay CGC extra for it and I think psa is starting to do it now (?) but the only way for there to be consistency is to create a standard, grade against the standard, and then say how the card fared against the standard. Anything less is literally just creative guesswork.
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Of course there’s a standard. It’s just impossible to cover every possible combination of blemishes on a card and neatly assort them into a discrete grading scale, so subjectivity is a necessary part of the process.
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Yeah I think that’s fair for extremely minor deviations but this thread alone is a testament to inconsistency of how hard or easy graders can be.
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Were these pack fresh cards scoring 10s a couple years ago?
Yes before covid I got 50% in a 10. Opened all those boxes after release or short after and stored the cards.
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No to expensive