Do psa actually check the card when they grade it?

My brother showed me this today.

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lmao, it’s real

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That confirms it for sure. Words already got back they can’t be having that on their books lol.

Pen*s Submissions Accepted. So much for QA1/2.

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You know they almost certainly have an internal record of which grader graded each cert. I’d be surprised if they didn’t. But imagine being the guy who graded this, then the people who did the qa checks :clown_face:

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Oh boy

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It’s funny you say that as that crossed my mind earlier. They must know who’s doing what or at least you would hope that was the case.

Especially with their financial “guarantee”. It would be irresponsible to not keep track of who may or may not be making errors that you have to pay out on and costing you money.

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Who wants ken sugimori sketch autos when you can have peepee sketch

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Well at least it wasn’t on a waifu.

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$12000 offer so far for it lol.

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Who was it who sent away the Squritle with the sunglasses drawn onto it?
Didn’t that get an 8 as well? Technically, this isn’t any different.

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Who ever did this, massive legend! And who ever graded this should have given it 8.5 just for the meme.

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I saw a YouTube video about that. Lmao :rofl:

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Not as cool as the PSA 9(MK) Squirtle Squad

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At this point it’s clear that there are many grading companies that have better grading standards than PSA (I can think of two in Germany alone). The only advantage PSA has is its popularity. It’s basically the international standard and used as reference. That’s why many cards that are graded a 10 at a stricter grading company still sell for less than a PSA 10. People know what to expect from a PSA10. They don’t know what to expect from a graded 10 of your local grading company, no matter how good/strict they are.

Maybe things would change if someone were to make an international grading company database that tries to provide an objective rating for each company in certain aspects. Grade the grader, so to say. I don’t think a grading auditor administration exists yet…

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Maybe PSA are testing an AI grading system, because a human missing this is hilarious.

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If this was on a CGC graded card, I bet this thread would already have 100+ comments bashing CGC hard.

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Well… at least they definitely improved alolan persian design.

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I didn’t click this thread for days but finally decided to see what it was about and this is definitely not what I expected.

This topic is a lesson in the benefit of accurately descriptive titles!

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