Opinions on the PSA Offers Program

[ksemmel]

Anyone getting any PSA offers?

Had offered on 9 of my cards yesterday, and now there are no offers on any of them

[88horsepower]

Originally Posted by auburn35

Thought this was worth a share.

https://x.com/PZPTCG/status/19967013..._AQDeujiw&s=19

It's an interesting story, and one I am monitoring. To the narrator's point, this would truly be a bigger story if more people, aside from the one singular case shown in the video, complained about the same issue. However, despite how much attention the video is getting, nobody else has come out with a similar issue.

On a related front, I bought a 1981 Fleer PSA 10 Fernando Valenzuela RC from 4 Sharp Corners earlier this year. After entering the cert number into my registry, the card was listed as a PSA 9. After contacting both 4 Sharp Corners and PSA, the latter informed me that the card was mistakenly labeled a PSA 10. 4 Sharp Corners promptly refunded me, but it was another issue of a card, with a very recent cert number, being erroneously slabbed.

Therefore, incorrectly slabbed cards isn't a one-off, but to say that PSA was purposely doing something to their benefit via the buyback program, using that example in the video, is a stretch, and I'm someone who would have absolutely ZERO problem with seeing PSA get the screws put to them for something truly heinous.

[auburn35]

Originally Posted by 88horsepower

It's an interesting story, and one I am monitoring. To the narrator's point, this would truly be a bigger story if more people, aside from the one singular case shown in the video, complained about the same issue. However, despite how much attention the video is getting, nobody else has come out with a similar issue.

On a related front, I bought a 1981 Fleer PSA 10 Fernando Valenzuela RC from 4 Sharp Corners earlier this year. After entering the cert number into my registry, the card was listed as a PSA 9. After contacting both 4 Sharp Corners and PSA, the latter informed me that the card was mistakenly labeled a PSA 10. 4 Sharp Corners promptly refunded me, but it was another issue of a card, with a very recent cert number, being erroneously slabbed.

Therefore, incorrectly slabbed cards isn't a one-off, but to say that PSA was purposely doing something to their benefit via the buyback program, using that example in the video, is a stretch, and I'm someone who would have absolutely ZERO problem with seeing PSA get the screws put to them for something truly heinous.

For sure. The idea that PSA did the swap for their own gain is silly, but so is the claim that this was a one-off situation. Like your example, there are numerous instances of items getting through the grading process with uncorrected issues.

The conflicts are well known, and existed even before the offers program started.
As the grades were quietly and quickly changed when called out, PSA can just easily do the same (without the attention), using a new cert.

[oddstuff]

Saw a post in a Facebook Tag page of all places. Someone took screenshots of the video showing the before 9/after 10 shots, focusing on the tail on the left edge. Post claims the cards shown are not the same card. Commenters say it's the angle of the pics. Figure the experts here can dissect/provide a better explanation why the tails appear to be different.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/tagg...580113237160/?

[Alyndara]

Beyond the issue of the conspiracy to undergrade, this issue highlights 2 major flaws with PSA. First is that they are claiming they chose to re-evaluate his entire order based on a social media post without informing him. Second, and even more damaging, is the admission that after further review...35% of his order was bumped a grade?!? So they are flat out admitting they have no consistency of grading. This one instance should have everyone demanding free reviews of their grades if their admitted error rate is over 25%.