The hit and miss of grading cards.

[chadjaja]

This just goes to show that when you are buying graded cards you should still acutally look at the card yourself and sum up is it actually worthy of the grade. Its easy to ge burnt and vise versa Ive bought some in the past smartly and re submitted to get higher grades.

My beef with the latest grader is that all three are given the same grade but in hand all three vary in conditon what I think pretty damatically. I'd say the centering on the Barkley knocked it down the the same grade as the Ewing despite it having much better corners and edges.

The Hondo I honestly thought would come back a 6 or so so i'm happy with that as its a really condition sensitive set being thin stickers, black and prone to chipping and centering issues. A psa 8 would of been a huge $'s windfall seeing I picked it up raw cheaply. Paid $5 for the Ewing raw too so it was worth a shot with the $5 grading deal. The Barkley was a gift from Mavs and much appreciated :-D

What do you think? All worthy of the same grade or just a grader going "yeah 7, yeah 7, yeah 7" :roll:

The scans don't show a lot of it but you can see some small differences.

 

[Benny J]

Like you said Chad it is hard to pick up much from the scans except maybe the Centreing and major corner/chipping issues.

IMO i reckon the Barkley and Ewing look in better condition that the Hondo....but as you said a 7 on the Hondo was a surprise!!

Nice cards anyways!!

 

[chadjaja]

Thats why I really hate not having huge shows here with lots of vintage etc graded available for me to look at FIRST hand. There is such a good thing as a bad psa 8 and a good psa IMO. I'll pay more for some with better centering and bad corners while other sets I'll let centering slide a little and go for better edges/corners etc.

I don't bother with the shows here now as there simply isn't anything at them that fits with my PC collecting etc. :-(

 

[mattyj]

I dont know much about Vintage or even grading of cards, but i can see what you mean about them all varying in condition...The Ewing appears to have a fuzzy bottom right corner?...but then it has nice centering compared to the Chuck, so who knows?

 

[Allstar cards inc]

To the naked eye (and based on the scan) I reckon the Ewing looks better than a seven.

 

[ScottE]

None the less there great cards, id be happy.

 

[aussie2al]

Pretty close ,I would say.

 

[jimboiitmac]

i think the pat is really nice and could've got an 8, but i know nothing about grading.

 

[wall4ace]

im the same,not knowing much about graded/vintage,but i like those chad.

nice cards

cheers

 

[chadjaja]

Well I'll upgrade both to psa 9's anyway along the line and hopefully pickup a Hondo psa 8 too if i can get one at a half decent price. In hand though the Barkley is a lot sharper than the Ewing.

 

[WoobieZarz]

Can't see how the Chuck can get a 7 if Big Pat got a 7....

The Hondo looks worse condion that the two Fleer's so I'd say perhaps make the Ewing an 8, keep the Chuck a 7, and the Hondo a 6-5.....

EDIT:
The Pat's bottom right corner looks a little worse off than the WHOLE of the Chuck, so maybe I don't got a clue...

Am I close??