sportscardsguy
08-21-2017, 07:57 PM
I bought this card for $220 back in 1990. It's been in my parent's safe ever since in a lucite holder and out of sunlight.
I always take a look around to see what a PSA 10 gets for this card is getting these days. I've read that one went for over $94k in March.
This auction: https://goo.gl/WCkwyG as of this post has about an hour and a half to go and is currently priced at just over $64k. PSA gave this card a 10 which I disagree with.
If you look at the middle panel, it is shifted way over to the right side. Also, the top blue line of the first panel and the green in the 2nd panel do not line up straight across. The first panel itself is also slightly shifted to the right side. These three can be see with the naked eye.
My card, which I don't have pics of because I am in Florida and my parents safe is in NY, has the black dash of ink in the 3rd panel underneath the 'O' in Johnson. But my centering is perfect on both the front and the back. I have all the perforations, and the print on the card of all 3 panels is perfectly square. It is not rotated like you can see on most of all the other cards. This black dash is a well known printing error and is seen on most of the cards.
I have seen only 1 PSA GEM MINT 10 with this dash of ink. Some argue that it can't take away from the cards value because it's not part of the 4 criteria used to grade a card because it is a printer's flaw.
Centering is the first in line and therefore the most important of the 4 criteria. This card in the auction is clearly not centered. Mine, trust me, is perfectly centered but has the black dash.
Is it possible for me to get a 10 from PSA or am I stuck with a 9 that is worth 1/10 of the value because of this printing ink flaw?
I really don't think the card in the auction deserved a 10 and feel that it is one of those cards that has been submitted many many times until the card owner got his 10. And that is a flaw with PSA.
I could be wrong but how else can you explain giving this card a 10 when it is clearly off center?
I would really appreciate anybody's input.
I always take a look around to see what a PSA 10 gets for this card is getting these days. I've read that one went for over $94k in March.
This auction: https://goo.gl/WCkwyG as of this post has about an hour and a half to go and is currently priced at just over $64k. PSA gave this card a 10 which I disagree with.
If you look at the middle panel, it is shifted way over to the right side. Also, the top blue line of the first panel and the green in the 2nd panel do not line up straight across. The first panel itself is also slightly shifted to the right side. These three can be see with the naked eye.
My card, which I don't have pics of because I am in Florida and my parents safe is in NY, has the black dash of ink in the 3rd panel underneath the 'O' in Johnson. But my centering is perfect on both the front and the back. I have all the perforations, and the print on the card of all 3 panels is perfectly square. It is not rotated like you can see on most of all the other cards. This black dash is a well known printing error and is seen on most of the cards.
I have seen only 1 PSA GEM MINT 10 with this dash of ink. Some argue that it can't take away from the cards value because it's not part of the 4 criteria used to grade a card because it is a printer's flaw.
Centering is the first in line and therefore the most important of the 4 criteria. This card in the auction is clearly not centered. Mine, trust me, is perfectly centered but has the black dash.
Is it possible for me to get a 10 from PSA or am I stuck with a 9 that is worth 1/10 of the value because of this printing ink flaw?
I really don't think the card in the auction deserved a 10 and feel that it is one of those cards that has been submitted many many times until the card owner got his 10. And that is a flaw with PSA.
I could be wrong but how else can you explain giving this card a 10 when it is clearly off center?
I would really appreciate anybody's input.