Evidence that PSA grading services isn't grading cards correctly.

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  • čas přidán 12. 06. 2021
  • We resubmitted the cards. The results are back! Link to that video here: • Proof that PSA is not ...
    Hey guys,
    Today I decided to crack open both Munch Pikachu's that PSA graded "5." I did initially contact PSA and PSA has refused to acknowledge any potential grading malfeasance. They even stated that TWO graders had reviewed these cards and deemed them a "5." They have not agree to re-grade the cards and or offer an expedited service to do so. PSA and other grading services need to be held accountable for misgrades. They do happen, we are all human, but this needs to be discussed.
    To preface:
    PSA standards for EX 5
    : Taken from the PSA website:
    On PSA EX-5 cards, very minor rounding of the corners is becoming evident. Surface wear or printing defects are more visible. There may be minor chipping on the edges. Loss of original gloss will be more apparent. Focus of picture may be slightly out-of-register. Several light scratches may be visible upon close inspection, but do not detract from the appeal of the card. Card may show some off-whiteness of borders. Centering must be 85/15 or better on the front and 90/10 or better on the back.
    Reference: www.psacard.com/resources/gra...
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Komentáře • 55

  • @The_Creative_Workshop
    @The_Creative_Workshop Před rokem +26

    Psa should write a brief card summary on the site for each card about the decision

    • @evansaber7642
      @evansaber7642 Před 9 měsíci

      I agree! But I think it’s because they have so many orders, probably why they don’t do that

    • @The_Creative_Workshop
      @The_Creative_Workshop Před 9 měsíci

      @@evansaber7642 perhaps only on the ones where people pay more.

    • @chinering23
      @chinering23 Před 2 měsíci

      @@evansaber7642 Because that's how they rip you off. What you requested is called a Report with most firms but you pay extra for that. The best thing is to grade with subgrades on the slab, then they can't hide too much from you that way. If they say the edges are a 8.5 and you think it's a 9, it's easier for discretion. On a PSA slab you have no idea until you take it out.

  • @ilovehouse888
    @ilovehouse888 Před 7 měsíci +8

    Psa is trash. It’s a complete mystery to me why they have currently have the highest resale value.
    They are complete garbage and I will never use their grading services again. I suggest everyone do the same and hopefully we can put them out of business.

    • @alabamaauditor7007
      @alabamaauditor7007 Před 6 měsíci +1

      AI grading FTW

    • @richurro20
      @richurro20 Před 2 měsíci

      well its cause they are the most leniant grading company, this video being an exception. They give out PSA 10's like its candy and because of that, more collectors choose to have that perfect 10 score over a BGS or CGS 9.5.

  • @974slayer
    @974slayer Před 3 lety +16

    look it is in PSA's best interest to not give cards high grades because a low population will drive the prices up of the already graded cards that have high ranks. Honestly, I have been looking at PSA population reports for the last year and something really peculiar happens when you take the pop data of cards and graph them with a curve, and almost every card's pop report has the same curve with a near-exact upward trend and downward trend. I can't prove it but I feel very confident in saying they give lower grades to cards on purpose to drive up the price of high graded cards the company personally owns, because the owner collects cards and does this to ensure the value of his collection along with other individuals who submit to PSA.

    • @thedavid7241
      @thedavid7241 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Agree!!!!

    • @flinchy-5224
      @flinchy-5224 Před 10 měsíci

      Other way around - PSA charges more if the card is worth more so they're incentivised to give out 9-10 not 5.

    • @kevin8462
      @kevin8462 Před 10 měsíci +1

      This was my very first thought. Theyre controlling the value and making bank on it when they buy low and grade their own shit and sell extremely high

    • @kevin8462
      @kevin8462 Před 10 měsíci +2

      ​@flinchy-5224 no that drive the population high and lowers the value of the card. So it does not help that at all. It wont be worth much anymore

    • @flinchy-5224
      @flinchy-5224 Před 10 měsíci

      @@kevin8462 for vintage cards that's not very relevant because the population is naturally low. There genuinely aren't very many cards in mint condition because no one took care of them 20 years ago
      It damages their brand if they aren't grading cards honestly

  • @1001History
    @1001History Před 11 měsíci +5

    Resubmit those two and I guarantee it'll come back much higher lmao. The grading consistency is so whack. I've seen 10's with terrible light play whitening on the corners, and 8's or 9's absolutely perfect, even under a light and microscope...

    • @Jbhcwow
      @Jbhcwow Před měsícem +1

      He did, They got 10, and 9.

  • @Starkiller_1911
    @Starkiller_1911 Před měsícem

    I have thought about grading cards but I just don’t see the point bc I’ve seen so many brand new out the pack flawless cards get low scores and it just seems like a waste

  • @user-fs7py1pt4r
    @user-fs7py1pt4r Před 3 měsíci +4

    Yeah PSA is dead to me

  • @cedarcuber
    @cedarcuber Před 11 měsíci +3

    hope you mailed the labels back to psa for POP report

  • @card.slayer
    @card.slayer Před 3 lety +17

    that's why PSA is overrated and trash

  • @petedaniels6686
    @petedaniels6686 Před 16 dny

    It could be argued that grading, in general, is bad for the hobby.

  • @HeavyMetalOne64
    @HeavyMetalOne64 Před 3 měsíci

    Peak at you’s Facial expression says it all...

  • @tobybartlett8449
    @tobybartlett8449 Před 25 dny

    Get it under the scope

  • @lightseek88
    @lightseek88 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Be cool if the way it works is we state the minimum we want our card to grade and if it doesn't grade that in PSA opinion then they won't grade it but will charge you a review fee of just a few bucks maybe $5 a card would you be ok with that? I know it would make PSA graded more suspect because o e would assume they just wanted the money that's why you got ur grade, ok fair point, this is where the trust comes in the same trust that every PSA submitted has shown PSA by sending them their cards in the past comes into play, it's the same company so they must be ok with this system otherwise they are just throwing every other grade in the past into sus territory because it's the same company so the same trust level should be there if it's not any more then everything the company has done in the past should be not trusted either. Does that make sense to you?

    • @flakyfan1496
      @flakyfan1496 Před 9 měsíci

      I fully agree, and the worst thing is we really have no way to ensure good grades.

    • @sh4nn4ro
      @sh4nn4ro Před 12 dny

      There is this japanese grading service ARS with beautiful slaps and u can actually give every card a minimum grade. If they decide its below that, they will just send it back.

  • @doml6438
    @doml6438 Před 6 měsíci +1

    And ppl run to grade cards with em it's funny to watch

  • @Darkshark201
    @Darkshark201 Před 4 dny

    Grading cards is a scam, it was to ensure sellers are getting no 10s but pay cheap to work with the graders .. huge scam

  • @alabamaauditor7007
    @alabamaauditor7007 Před 6 měsíci +2

    All the grading card companies are inconsistent

  • @lukealessio7328
    @lukealessio7328 Před 3 lety +12

    I feel like this is the first time you've ever graded a card. In your first video, you believe the graders haven't seen reverse holo cards from legendary collection? LC reverse holo's are notoriously for being easily scratched and for having print lines. In this video you talked about the print lines/scratches on the pikachu card. You also mentioned in the first video that the Pikachu was "perfect". At one point in video one you mentioned that you only send in psa 8-10 candidate cards- "Nothing below an 8". Obviously this wasn't true as the Gio Gyarados has much whitening and tons of scratches on the holo. The Gyarados got a 5 which would make your grading scale inconsistent if you thought that card would get an 8.
    PSA also doesn't do subgrades either, if you want subgrades go to other grading companies. Not trying to be rude, but you have to be delirious if you think PSA is going to care about you emailing and calling about the grades. You are sending in cards that aren't 9/10 quality and upset when they don't get 9/10s. Like I said above, you stated you only send in 8+ condition, then show the Gyrados that has much whitening and the holo is extremely scratched- lets remember your the one saying PSA isn't consistent. Let me state that I'm not a PSA fanboy or whatever. I feel like your just being illogical and trying to get attention.
    And jeez man, figure out how to use a flashlight before the video lmao and the way you opened up the psa cards made me cringe. It can be terribly disappointing waiting so long to get grades back and the cards not living up to your expectations. This is my opinion and hopefully I didn't come off as rude/an asshole. Hopefully your next submission with whatever grading company you go through comes back with 9's or 10's. Best of luck.

    • @grafzeppelin4069
      @grafzeppelin4069 Před 10 měsíci +3

      You're just ignoring blatant evidence PSA is corrupt.

  • @Sezpy1238
    @Sezpy1238 Před 17 dny +1

    Bro first of all you didn’t show it in plain view so you could’ve switched it. Also with all those tiny damages on the card all add up to 5

    • @the_bossler5976
      @the_bossler5976 Před 11 dny +1

      If you watch his part two video a year or so later, one comes back a 10 and the other a 9

  • @michaelhughes6442
    @michaelhughes6442 Před 4 měsíci

    Send them to AGS

  • @justcharlie818
    @justcharlie818 Před 2 měsíci

    Its a piece of FUCKING CARDBOARD 😂

  • @Collectiblestcg
    @Collectiblestcg Před 11 měsíci +1

    Your finger prints all over the card a lot people doesn't put attention to that and the card must be perfectly in the center those card in the back side u can clearly see card is not in the center one side its smaller than the other one

    • @ZebraStripes
      @ZebraStripes Před 23 dny

      That was driving me nuts XD
      I bet he touches TV screens and computer monitors with his fingers too

  • @OGPure
    @OGPure Před 3 lety +1

    I'll be 100% honest I think the way you scale stuff is just plain wrong. First its unrealistic to submit and expect 9s and 10s on everything, and you said in the last video you don't send in anything you think will be lower then an 8, but that Gary was not remotely close to an 8. If you think that was an 8, that explains why you are so disappointed. And as minor as it may be, that 1st Pika is not mint. Yes the whitening is tiny, but it is automatically not "mint" for that.

  • @robertjackson-fs9sl
    @robertjackson-fs9sl Před rokem +6

    You cracked the 2 PSA 5 cards cards out of the holders. The 2 cards should of been in plain view even after you cracked them out. They were not. You could of set the 2 PSA 5 cards aside and swapped in 2 really nice cards instead. So there is no actual proof that PSA screwed up because the 2 cards were not in plain view the whole time. You should of cracked them out, cleaned them off, got your light and then showed us the 2 cards without removing them from view. Then if there was a drastic undergrade i would believe it other than that no. Also in another video you show the supposed 2 same cards you cracked and regraded to get a PSA 10 and a PSA 9. Maybe these are not the 2 cards you cracked out but different ones.

    • @urbana7547
      @urbana7547 Před rokem

      stop meat riding psa

    • @2blondiechick
      @2blondiechick Před 11 měsíci +5

      Dont be annoying

    • @grafzeppelin4069
      @grafzeppelin4069 Před 10 měsíci

      Bullshit.

    • @qbkurt
      @qbkurt Před 9 měsíci +4

      Fully agree. He's just upset about his 5's, so he's trying to make PSA look bad with this emotional scam. Card grading victimhood is at peak levels.

    • @Brodders.strong
      @Brodders.strong Před 9 měsíci

      Touch grass