Posted By:
Eric BrehmJim C.,
Thanks for sharing the results of your review submissions here.
I have submitted about 30 PSA 8 cards for review, mostly star cards of the 1950's and 1960's, and received a total of 5 bumps: 3 from PSA 8 to PSA 8.5, and 2 from PSA 8 to PSA 9. (I was surprised by the bumps to 9, as I assumed that very rarely happened.) I didn't 'cherry-pick' the cards in advance, but rather sent in pretty much everything I owned in PSA 8 of certain players that I collect, to see what I would get. (But I'd like to think that most of the PSA 8's I bought were 'high end' examples anyhow.)
In any case, it appears that PSA is being very stringent in awarding the grade bumps. I guess that means that if you do get a bump, say from 8 to 8.5, that you've got a card that is definitely very strong for the grade, at least in PSA's opinion.