BGS grading - I give up!

[doniceage]

Hey the professional graders at beckett I believe pull in more than 6 figures in the past. Not sure if this is true now but a friend of a friend who got on there told me the that figure. I was flabbergasted when I heard they could make that much.

DON

[reoddai]

Have you inspected the card first-hand?

That's a good point for the other characteristics, but centring is supposed to be the one objective measure. All you need to evaluate it is either a ruler, or a good scanned image.

What you do is open up the image in paint, or photoshop or whatever you want. Starting from the corners, just measure the number of pixels to the edge of the card. Continue for all edges and then take the ratio. As long as you are consistent, the results will always be the same. There's really no subjectivity for centering when a card has a clean and clear border like this one.

I measured from the edges and here's the result:


As you can see the left side is 19 pixels from the edge. The right is 14. The top is 18 pixels and the bottom is 17 pixels.

For the top/bottom the centering is 51.4/48.6

For the left/right centering is 57.6/42.4

Straight from Beckett's grading website, the cut off for a grade of 9 is 55/45. The left/right orientation is more off center than that.
Mint 9 - Centering: 55/45 both ways on front.
Near Mint/Mint 8 - Centering: 60/40 both ways or better on front.

There's no way that that card is a 9. Its an 8.5 at best.

[kovyheater]

Personally, this is just fuel to the fire that BGS standards have fallen off the mark.

3-4 years ago, most collectors noticed that 9.5 were easier to get. Now, it's a joke.

So many 9.5s are what used to be BGS 8.5. Trimmed cards are getting slabbed at an alarming rate. Fake patches....etc. You can't trust "the most trusted source for collecting" anymore.

I trust a respected seller's opinion over anyone from BGS. If I buy BGS, I buy the older label slabbed cards...or ones that have a serial number less than 5 million.

Disgrace....that's the best word I can think of. BGS should be shut down.

[13paveldatsyuk13]

You can buy the grade you want for any card, for a few hundred $ he could have gotten a 10, gradeing means nothing from any of the companys that do it anymore psa included.