Biggest BGS Grade "Bump" you've seen?

[Messier2]

Mine would have to be the Jake Skole 2010 BDP Superfractor Auto from a BGS 8.5 (graded in 2010) to BGS 9.5 (graded recently). The card is not mine (I just follow these 2010 BDP superfractors).

One full grade! Anyone else?

 

[lisu]

I had a 2007 Bowman Sterling refractor auto of Jason Heyward bumped from a 8.5 to a 9.5. They had made an error on the centering (gave it a 8 centering when it was really a 9 centering.

 

[matfanofold]

I cant recall when, But I remember a few years ago someone, presumably to make a point, submitted and cracked a card multiple times and it came back everything from a 8 to a 9.5, and in no perticular order...

 

[bradical]

From our very own FCB Groups Subs:

 

[MansGame]

^^^ This is hillarious... so you sent this card back in twice after the initial grade?

 

[bradical]

Maybe even three times, I just never scanned one. I think it's original grade was a 8.5.

 

[jbrown]

2001 SP Authentic Mark PRior. I wish I still had the pics. I think it was 8 to 9.5. There was also extreme evidence of trimming.

 

[bricewaynebisel]

Is that the Stras you got from me Bradical? Didn't realize the surface was that bad on it. Nice bump work though.

 

[CardboardIcons]

I just had a pair of 49 Bowman rookies go from PSA 1 to BVG 3 ... They were the nicest 1s I saw on eBay ... Hit them within an hour of ten being posted for BIN.

Rookies of Campanella and Snider.

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

I had an 8.5 bump to a 10 years ago when 10s were tougher. A realistic grade is probably a 9.5 for the card.

 

[bcubs]

I think it's interesting that the population report shows 2 Jake Skole superfractors. You would think even Beckett would catch the fact you can't have 2 1 of 1 cards.

 

[bradical]

Is that the Stras you got from me Bradical? Didn't realize the surface was that bad on it. Nice bump work though.

Not sure.

 

[smapdi]

That would imply they care about anything after the credit card payment clears. I know I'd wish that the graders are excited about the cards they see, sit around and kibitz about the hobby all day, check the pop reports for each one, consult a master list of serial numbers for each card to see if a card is a resub, get on the hotline to the one person at Topps who knows exactly what the Pujols BC #5/500 looks like whenever they get another one, and that they really, really, REALLY scrutinize every card, and discuss in depth with their grading brethren the merits and faults of each aspect of each card before arriving at one of 20 values they might conceivably assign to them, then run them through the Master Computer to see what the Final Grade will be, and the bells chime whenever a 10 is discovered, and in-between grading sessions they go across the quad to the Hobby Training Center to go through Master Classes in Variations and Errors, recertify in Counterfeit Detection, and go through a rousing choral round of "Patch Faking (Don't Do It!)." But the reality is they are small group of disgruntled, grumpy guys who work in a darkened room get big stacks of Card Saver Is dumped in their inboxes a couple times a day and have to plow through them all before the due dates and they know it's not winter so they can't blame being late on a batch because there was a light overnight frost in Frisco, and get paid for too little to pay for the cataract surgery they'll surely need later in life after the job they do, wondering how they went so far awry in life as to work in an industry that is shrinking and cannibalizing itself when all they really wanted to do was collect cards, and now they hate them and the people who send them in.

 

[Jaypers]

This wasn't the 'biggest' in terms of subgrades, but in terms of price.

I got this back recently from BGS, decided to try and bump it at Nats (via my friend Randy Shields), and was successful. It's now a 9.5.

 

[iconms]

Probably a dumb question but when re-submitting for a bump in grade, is it a given that you crack the card out of the existing slab?

 

[Jaypers]

Probably a dumb question but when re-submitting for a bump in grade, is it a given that you crack the card out of the existing slab?

Nope, leave it as is. BGS inspects them that way. Don't ask me how.

 

[Calripkenjrcollector]

That would imply they care about anything after the credit card payment clears. I know I'd wish that the graders are excited about the cards they see, sit around and kibitz about the hobby all day, check the pop reports for each one, consult a master list of serial numbers for each card to see if a card is a resub, get on the hotline to the one person at Topps who knows exactly what the Pujols BC #5/500 looks like whenever they get another one, and that they really, really, REALLY scrutinize every card, and discuss in depth with their grading brethren the merits and faults of each aspect of each card before arriving at one of 20 values they might conceivably assign to them, then run them through the Master Computer to see what the Final Grade will be, and the bells chime whenever a 10 is discovered, and in-between grading sessions they go across the quad to the Hobby Training Center to go through Master Classes in Variations and Errors, recertify in Counterfeit Detection, and go through a rousing choral round of "Patch Faking (Don't Do It!)." But the reality is they are small group of disgruntled, grumpy guys who work in a darkened room get big stacks of Card Saver Is dumped in their inboxes a couple times a day and have to plow through them all before the due dates and they know it's not winter so they can't blame being late on a batch because there was a light overnight frost in Frisco, and get paid for too little to pay for the cataract surgery they'll surely need later in life after the job they do, wondering how they went so far awry in life as to work in an industry that is shrinking and cannibalizing itself when all they really wanted to do was collect cards, and now they hate them and the people who send them in.

You okay, Bro? LOL!

 

[200lbhockeyplayer]

That would imply they care about anything after the credit card payment clears. I know I'd wish that the graders are excited about the cards they see, sit around and kibitz about the hobby all day, check the pop reports for each one, consult a master list of serial numbers for each card to see if a card is a resub, get on the hotline to the one person at Topps who knows exactly what the Pujols BC #5/500 looks like whenever they get another one, and that they really, really, REALLY scrutinize every card, and discuss in depth with their grading brethren the merits and faults of each aspect of each card before arriving at one of 20 values they might conceivably assign to them, then run them through the Master Computer to see what the Final Grade will be, and the bells chime whenever a 10 is discovered, and in-between grading sessions they go across the quad to the Hobby Training Center to go through Master Classes in Variations and Errors, recertify in Counterfeit Detection, and go through a rousing choral round of "Patch Faking (Don't Do It!)." But the reality is they are small group of disgruntled, grumpy guys who work in a darkened room get big stacks of Card Saver Is dumped in their inboxes a couple times a day and have to plow through them all before the due dates and they know it's not winter so they can't blame being late on a batch because there was a light overnight frost in Frisco, and get paid for too little to pay for the cataract surgery they'll surely need later in life after the job they do, wondering how they went so far awry in life as to work in an industry that is shrinking and cannibalizing itself when all they really wanted to do was collect cards, and now they hate them and the people who send them in.

All of that, with a mere three periods.

And speaking of cannibals and cataracts...I'm hungry.

 

[MansGame]

All of that, with a mere three periods.

And speaking of cannibals and cataracts...I'm hungry.

LOL! Since you read the entire rant, would you mind giving me the cliffs notes? I'm interested in what was said...

 

[gracecollector]

They should just offer an Express Bump service. Where they grade it once and, for an extra $10, then add .5 to the grade right away. It's a win-win. They get their extra money, you save on shipping.

#@$% grading.