my hearts to all the fellow bionicle kids who's parents went
"your too old for bionicles now" and stopped buying them saying "you can buy them when your older"
and i feel that is what killed bionicles.
As much as I wanted a 10, my Ancient Mew getting a 9 is a perfect example of why I'm 100% in favor of @TAGgrading becoming the standard in card grading. Here's why:
I was very hopeful that this card would get a 10 (if not a pristine score) after I sent it in shortly after cracking the promo seal. It looked pretty perfect.
If this had come back a PSA 9, I would've honestly been really frustrated and would've cracked it and re-submitted. Since TAG has an incredibly transparent "DIG Report" though, I can actually see why it got a 9. There is a very faint "ink defect" that is really hard to see with the naked eye. The DIG Report shows exactly where it is on the card, so now I can go back to the video I took of the raw card before sending it, and sure enough if you look hard enough you can actually see the print lines when the light hits it right.
I don't know about you, but I'm all for this kind of transparency and accuracy when it comes to getting cards graded. Not to mention the slabs look dang clean.
Thanks, TAG π