Convenience and safe target. PSA is a sacred cow and ubiquitously ingrained in many people's collections.
I've for many years assumed that many high grade cards in PSA holders have been "conserved." Even one major auction house president years back advertised that they could "prep" your cards for grading.
Happily for me, owning '9s' and '10s' never interested me as a collector. Just my aesthetics/sentiments (and understanding that 'art is in the eye of the beholder'), but I never understood the need to own a Gem Mint copy of any particular card.
Last edited by drcy; 05-21-2019 at 01:14 PM.
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