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Posted By: Eric Brehm

Peter -- I am not real happy with the results I got from my PSA crossover attempts, or the total amount of money I essentially wasted on the failed ones. I just think crossovers are a difficult thing for the grading companies to deal with, for the reason I mentioned above -- they are taking a risk that a card that is cracked out will be found on closer inspection to have problems or anomalies (e.g. in the edges or surface) that were not detectable when in the holder.

But I know nothing about how grading actually works, so maybe that is all in my imagination. I was talking to the customer service guy at SGC a while ago, and he suggested that they have reached the point where they can identify an altered card when still in a holder, as easily as they can after it is cracked out.