Why is this card a 4?
11/16/06 00:55 PersonalGeneral Yammering
Somebody please explain this shit to me, because the more I think about it the more frustrated I get.
And no, there's nothing wrong with the back. And there are no wrinkles, no writing, or no invisible print lines, footprints, tooth marks, or chocolate stains. The upper left corner has a ding.
There's a dartboard in Newport Beach with ten numbers on it. Jimmy the Grade Monkey tosses a dart, it hits he number 4, and bingo. Add one PSA 4 to the pop report.
I'm not one to bash grading companies, and I'll willingly disclose that the company I work for counts SGC among its client base. But I've always been pretty fair about touting both PSA and SGC, and using both companies regularly as well. I've submitted a significant number of '38 Goudeys to PSA, in all grades, and over the last six months I have seen a definite increase in the number of grading oddities.
By the way, this Foxx was on the same submission as the Hank Greenberg I posted last month (that was rejected for trimming after being a PSA 4, 3, and 2). Also on the submission was a 38 Goudey Demaree that was once an SGC 50 that is now a PSA 6, a T206 Joe Kelley that was blatantly trimmed that is now a PSA 5, and a '38 Goudey Medwick that PSA rejected three times in a row for trimming (it took me a while to find where the trimming was, but now that I can see it I'm thankful that PSA is so consistent).
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