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Old 04-15-2016, 05:54 PM
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Originally Posted by AGuinness View Post
Isn't this shift in PSA standards fairly recent? I can't see that as the biggest factor in rising prices, because as others have noted elsewhere, prices have been rising fast for many years - even 10 or 15 years.

I wonder if the shift in PSA standards could potentially create a split market, where cards with new flips (graded with new standards) are basically in a different ballpark than old flips, which would make their grade unreliable (although perhaps not entirely irrelevant).

This is more of an open question in my mind...
Keep in mind older graded cards will be re-holdered so you can't always rely on a newer flip = newly graded.
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