PSA vs BGS graded cards

[doniceage]

BCCG is the mass grading service that Beckett offers and they don't grade as strict. BVG just handles cards 80/79 and earlier.

BCCG never grades as strict. As those cards are just Mint supposedly and that could be like 8.5. So anyone that buys BCCG and looking at the Beckett and saying wow I have a 10 it worth Hundreds. As Don Wilson from the home shopping network used to do this. He explained the difference of BCCG versus BGS but just quoted what a 10 was worth.

What about GEM?

I have a GEM 10 Marino Rc.

GEM is worthless.


Here a article on card grading by someone else that I posted:

https://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/?p=187

Also, this was the best article I ever posted on Grading:

Problems in the Grading Industry

https://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/?p=33

As it shows a example of a card going from a PSA 8 to a BGS 9.5 10 auto with the same serial ed numbered card. So anyone that says Beckett is more stringent has got to be kidding!!

Don

[jerome829]

Also, this was the best article I ever posted on Grading:

Problems in the Grading Industry

https://www.sportscardforum.com/articles/?p=33

As it shows a example of a card going from a PSA 8 to a BGS 9.5 10 auto with the same serial ed numbered card. So anyone that says Beckett is more stringent has got to be kidding!!

Don

That's a good article. It would be nice if a machine actually did all the grading. I am beginning to lean on buying graded cards from now on but I hope they keep raising the bar...

[abel468]

Sorry I'm late guys, I was held up at the intersection of graded toys and graded comics.

My comment on this thread is this:

BGS for modern cards. Anything 80-present.
PSA for everything else.

I also have to endorse GAI. They really are an unappreciated company. They're just as tough as PSA and BGS and way more affordable.

I've never used SGC. It's just something about their grade levels that bother me, 100, 96, 88, etc., etc., etc. But if they have great customer service I may need to give them a go.

I like BGS's and GAI's website features. They're smooth, modern, attractive, and so-on. However, PSA's website is like staring into a 1980's Macintosh program. Everything is almost like blocked. It doesn't have any eye appeal and their online submission option absolutely sucks!

BGS grades the quickest and PSA grades the slowest.
BGS has far better customer service and PSA... well at times I don't think they have customer service. They're rude, unhelpful, snotty, short, and almost arrogant. They make you almost feel like, "just another broke *** collector/dealer".

I honestly believe if PSA doesn't change some things, i.e. update their website, improve their customer service, adjust their prices, etc., that they will be dethroned by BGS. Don't get me wrong I like PSA, but I feel they live to much on, "We were the first, that makes us the best, so we can half-*** everything else". Well, I believe that just may be their demise.

Either way, nice thread! Cheers mates!