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I remember when I was in college (1999-2003) when I got back into collecting (once I had the money to actually buy what I really wanted; complete sets) and I always heard that Beckett (BGS) was much tougher on their grading standards than PSA was (so much so, in fact, that a BGS 9 = PSA 10 and BGS 9.5 = PSA 11; yes I know there's no such thing, but you know what I mean).
Grading is not (yet) an exact science. You sent in a 9.5 and they sent you back a 9.5. If you had multiple experienced people grade that card, you probably would get a slight variation in opinion. I would say Beckett did okay on this and you have a great card and got greedy. garnettstyle Posts: 2,143 .
Grading is good, grading is bad. We all have our success and horror stories. One things for sure, grading has helped eat away at the junk wax era supply. Without grading, we'd all be sitting on a stack of raw 1989 Donruss Griffey RC's fighting over the buyers to make our $3. With grading, some of us make $200.
they can fill in the rest. Long story short, the two review cards were sent to Beckett for grading to be in a slab. He gets a call from BGS saying that the cards have been altered/tampered. The sides of the Card Saver 1s had been slit opened and the cards were replaced with inferior copies. I've had CS1 split on me, so I can see it happening.
In order to achieve a grade a card must have 3 subgrades equal to or greater than the overall grade and the overall grade is limited by the lowest subgrade. The overall grade can generally only be .5 a grade higher than the worst subgrade. For instance all of these subgrades would equal an overall grade of 8: 7.5 8 8 8.
I have 2000 cards a month grated by grading companies. I have used PSA in the past and I have used Beckett. PSA charges me $35 per card, while Beckett charges $21 per card. So you can imagine I was quite surprised to see that GMA grading charges two dollars per card.
Beckett and PSA are the big two. Newer Beckett grading is the way to go, for no certain reason and PSA for the vintage stuff for the registry, mainly. Both are outstanding companies. Beckett doesn't have a couple of 4SC deals going on, thus making registry sets really hard to complete for the sheer lack of being able to afford-ably grade commons.
But the truth is that the newer cards are getting graded by Beckett. Probably the last 15 years, Beckett has graded just as many cards (I am speaking of 2005 - 2019 cards). So I understand you're not happy, and maybe others aren't but they rank #2 behind PSA in value and grading.
Beckett Grading Services uses an algorithm which determines the final grade using the 4 sub grades on the front label of the card holder. The lowest overall grade is the first category to observe because it is the most obvious defect, and the lowest grade is the most heavily weighted in determining the overall grade.
Any lower grades get silver labels? craig19, Beckett uses gold flips for 10's and 9.5's, silver flips for 9's and 8.5's and white for 8's and so on. The subs on the back are are the older flips and the subs on the front are the newer flips. thanks matt - exactly what i was looking for... Stay away from the subs on the front.