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Originally Posted by CardGoonies
I think that there are certain things they look for that the naked eye could never ever see. Especially damage on vintage cards. I saw a youtube video where SGC puts some cards into a forensic document scanner to detect damage that led lighting and mag lamps can't. It was fascinating. The eye appeal of the card was good, but the actual condition of the thing was brutal in the document scanner.
The video below is the clip. The guy is a cheeseball, but the scanner and what they show is interesting!
https://youtu.be/_YNOs6Xu80w?t=982
BTW, not into SGC at all, but I think transparancy in the grading process is deserved by the clients of PSA, BGS, SGC, etc.... We don't get that, though. Probably because then people would get their own tools and only send in 10s. Most of these company's money has to be made in the volume of bad cards sent in. |
Interesting. Brings out a very existential question of how important is the damage to the assessment, if the human eye isn’t ever really going to detect it? All things being equal , maybe a case can be made, but if one card looks better than another to the human eye, but worse in a specialized light setting than a different card, which looks slightly worse to the naked eye but better under said light, I’m choosing the first example!