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Originally Posted by FT35
For sure! Contrary to the stereotype of all who “complain,” I’m not just a 10 or bust submitter. I sub many cards that I know will not gem. That’s where the 60% orders come from. I’ve had bulk 100+ card subs in the 90%+ gem rate range in the past—on stuff that I sub mainly because of condition. Those are the orders that illustrate an understanding on what a 10 is/should be. That’s why when I submit an order of say 80 cards that mostly “should gem,” and 3 come back 10’s—I question things. My decision to document it here is less a complaint (no one here can fix anything) and more an alert to others.
Better put, my expected grades on bulk subs used to align almost perfectly with actual results (for nearly 20 years). You’d have the head scratcher card here and there, but grades were always either what you thought or maybe 1 grade off. Now you have many people reporting head scratcher bulk subs where grades are 2-4 grades off from your expected numbers—not even in the ballpark—suggesting a major disconnect in the grading scale interpretation itself by the grader/AI machine. Multiple YouTube videos of entire 100-200 card bulk subs getting cracked and resubmitted for drastically different grades. These are $2,500-$4,000+ orders that are getting cracked and resubmitted (for another $2,500-$4,000+ of course)! You’re now paying over $5,000 to get 150 cards in the correct slabs—assuming the resub is correct! Plus there’s now regular damage to the cards. These things never used to happen.
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OK, that makes sense, then.
There was like 1-2 subs a few years ago, post-Covid that I genuinely think I got screwed on but for the most part the cards are right where I think they should be.
My last sub was:
Eight 10s.
Five 9s.
Six 8s. (two of these I thought could have been 10s...)
One 7 (super condition sensitive, probably a correct grade)
But overall? Probably fair grades.
I see everyone complaining but I haven't really been destroyed unfairly lately.