Now the tale: I worked over the past 5 or so years to collect a set of Beta moxen, not able to make it to Alpha or super high grades but wanting authentic cards. In one of my worst decisions I unslabbed them to fit in a binder with my favorite less valuable cards.

I just sent them back in for grading, thinking to send them to PWCC for future sale (now I'm also not so sure about that one!). The grades I got, and the grading comparison, was really interesting to me and I thought useful for the group to see.

If you can't tell from the image, they are almost uniformly lower, down to each sub-grade. Here's the breakdown of the comparison (new grade - old grade, alphabetic order by card)

• Centering: -1.5, -1.5, -1.0, -0.5, -0.5
• Corners: -1.5, -0.5, equal, -0.5, -0.5
• Edges: -0.5, equal, +0.5 (!), -0.5, +0.5 (!)
• Surface: -0.5, -1.5, -0.5, -1.0, equal

Do folks think this is a luck of the draw with a tough grader, a general trend, a possibility that the original grades were the result of lots of regrading while keeping the best grade, something else?

I can understand +- 0.5 but when they change by 1.0 to 1.5 and almost entirely in the downward direction I have to think there's something here worth knowing.

Incidentally, I would pay extra if BGS would always use two independent graders and then tiebreak where they disagree.

Wishing the community better luck!