It might just be anecdotal with my personal submissions, but it seems like whenever PSA gets backed up - there's a much higher chance of a lower gem rate. Then when they need people to submit more, the grades tend to be more lenient. Not 100% of the time, just in general. I don't know why that would be - if they are backed up they give bad grades to temporarily discourage submitting, lazy grading due to a massive workload, new people who don't know what they're doing (we know QA is trash at PSA)? I have no idea why but it seems to go this way. I think one thing we can agree on is PSA is completely incompetent.
I don't mind waiting a little extra longer while they work through this backlog, but if PSA's new tougher mystery standards are permanent, then I will be cutting back on submitting since it won't be worth it.
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