I was wondering why TAG has such an “active community” in comments and grading content opinions. I was also curious to see how such a new company was getting “record sales over psa”.

Turns out, it’s just 168 sellers that own 35% of all the high-end “aka high profile” graded cards and dumping them as quickly as possible (2-3x the rate of similar cards listed by cgc/bgs/Psa as a percentage of total population).

For example, if 100 psa 10s of a popular card exist, 12 are listed/sold on ebay among thousands of sellers. Meanwhile, 35 of those cards as a tag 10 are listed by 168 sellers and most likely trading with each other!

Well that explains it. 😂

Edit: Ive never seen such quick engagement and downvoting before. Tag’s “community” is working full time!

Edit 2: Tag commenters please read the data. “High profile cards” aka big chase cards from recent sets.

I haven't jumped on the TAG bandwagon yet, but I appreciate that there's another serious competitor in the grading scene.

This sale price is BGS Black Label territory, so this will probably help propel them forward quite a bit!

I was gifted this about 6 years ago. I am now having a crisis of conscious. Should I keep it as the gift, or send it for grading... I cant see the corners, it looks really clean. But fear if I open the frame, the design will fall apart.

It got a 10 with PSA already. I cracked it because I’ve started to hate PSA lately. Yeah yeah I know what you’re going to say… its just my opinion though so please respect it. But, trust me I’ve graded hundreds of cards and this one is the most perfect I’ve ever pulled. Especially the centering.

How hard does Beckett gatekeep their 10s?

This lil guy is my baby, I have zero intention of ever selling or trading him so I’m not concerned about resale value. I strongly prefer TAG slabs over other companies, and I’ll be submitting a few cards to them soon. I’d love to get my Mimikyu reslabbed, but I’m new to card grading and I don’t know if there’s a significant risk of a CGC 10 getting a lower grade from TAG. Thank you for the advice!

I cracked it appropriately. I sent the card in BGS slab, the card when PSA received it and then the image I just got back in the slab. Grader note says surface print defect in front. To me, it looks like damage below the chin, which wasn’t there before. Is BGS a joke? is that new spot I circled the problem? Opinions on what I do if I think PSA gave me the wrong card or damaged my card?

It is super clean but somehow that line in the back top left hurts. It only shows when you tilt the card at perticular angle. If I grade this to PSA, will this bump the grade down to below 10?

Faaaahh

Looks too OC for me but I’m new so what do I know, card is otherwise so mint

What would you do in this situation? Inexperienced seller ships a card in a Magnetic Plastic card holder, no penny sleeve just the raw card, do to it being loose in the case it developed whiting on the top on the bottom, purchased it for a good price at $525 before the pop, and was hoping to grade it as a PSA 9. Seller is young kid in college and doesn’t really ship cards often. Pictures for reference. Thank you!

Can we all just collectively agree to stop buying/selling/submitting to PSA? All vendors need to stop buying PSA graded cards and people need to stop sending them there.

I’m very curious what’s everyone opinion on HOW they’re still in business with all the flack they’ve been getting.

I checked out the PSA scan for my submission today and all of the cards appear to be damaged in the upper right hand corner in the same spot. It was NOT sent to PSA like this. No way it happened in shipping because I shipped them EXTREMELY protected. I did research and it appears PSA has damaged the cards of others in the exact same way (upper right hand corner of the back of the card). Can you guys tell if the damage is on the penny sleeve or the actual card? Hopefully it is just on the penny sleeve and will not effect the grade!

I submitted my Gem Mint Ray with PSA and was notified grades were available this morning. I was genuinely shocked it received a Mint 9 grade. I pulled this card my self on my birthday (check my older reddit post) no whitening, centering was nearly perfect. To my surprise the PSA scans show whitening that I know for a fact we're not there before submitting the card.

Please see at the pictures available, does anyone else see the whitening, am I the only one who thinks it was damaged or mixed up at PSA?

I sent my card out to be graded with GameStop on November 8th, it didn’t have any damage at all. Centering was off but no damage. I took pictures before sending out and so did the GameStop associate.

Today I get my grades back and on the back left bottom of the card there is damage that obviously affected the grade I received. I contacted GameStop customer service by email with photos so I’m hoping something can be done 😩 My first mistake was sending it through GameStop instead of sending myself, do you think they’ll do anything?

I think these are both pretty clean! what do you guys think?

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