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Marc S.one of the cards was a 1990 O-Pee-Chee Larry Walker cad graded a PSA MINT 9. The card is not worth the grading fees, flat out. Frankly, I send in a lot of cards to PSA that come back at 8s or other grades that ultimately make it not worth the grading fee, nor worth the time and hassle to sell on Ebay. Instead of using cardboard for packaging cards I ship through the mail, I stick any graded cards I sell between two "PSA throw away" cards instead. That's the same as giving them away or drilling a hole through them. At many big shows, some of these big dealers have PSA $1 bins, where it is PSA-graded cards of Hall of Famers or stars, usually modern crap, that received 8s or 9s. I'm sorry -- the drill in and of itself proves very little to me. One of my favourite players and collections is my Mike Schmidt collection -- and I feel confident in saying that >50% of the PSA 10s I have of Schmidt probably have a true market value of $5 - $10.
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