Another strange thing in all this is that the very high profile cards in prewar often get graded higher than a similarly damaged common would be graded.
I suppose they could have oversight on cards that the grader thinks are 10s, but it seems like a lot of fussing around for little benefit.
They have no direct benefit, unless you think they get kickbacks.
In fact, they have a direct loss on a Henderson that's a 9 instead of 10 because of the difference in grading fee.
Current grading fee on a 10 = 5000
Current grading fee on a 9 = 150
A bit over 33x as much.
The money left on the table if all 2119 9s were actually 10s.
$10,277,150.
even if it was half of them, that's a lot to spend on a "maybe people will send in more of a card they already send in a ton of"
5 Million would buy years worth of more effective advertising.
And considering that some cards would be down graded further into the 8 category it could be much more.
I'm just not seeing it from a business standpoint.
And that people will send in that card without really looking at it... just look at how many there are graded 2 and 3. Who the heck sends in a 1980 anything thats a 2? Apparently 129 people did. and even more, 398 threes.
The total number of 10s divided by the number of cards in the set is a bit over 24, a fairly close match with the 25 population of PSA10 Hendersons.
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