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Help? Tell me why one card is a PSA 8 and the other is a 10?
I am looking at buying some Mike Schmidt cards and am trying to get as many as I can as PSA 10s. So I was on ebay looking at a 1980 Shimidt PSA 10. Here is the deal - The PSA 10 has a ton of flaws:
-Yellowing on the right hand corner -Cat-eye between the All-Star -Brown spot under the "E" in Phillies So I took a look over at COMC and found a 1980 PSA Schmidt that looks a ton better then the PSA 10! Centering looks spot on and no ovbvius flaws. So can anybody more knowledgeable fill me in why on is a 10 and the other is an 8? PSA 10 MS-Bad.jpg PSA 8 Mike-SchmidtG.jpg |
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Different graders or the same grader on different days or in different time frames.
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It's so subjective at the high grades, especially.
The 10 looks over graded. And the 8 may or may not be under graded. Hard to tell without seeing in hand. Surface flaws and other minute issues are hard to see in scans. But both cards very likely are more like psa 9s. Like they say... buy the card, not the holder.
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The yellowing may be on the holder or the scanner bed...........or it could possibly be mold spores that grew on the card after grading.
I know I picked up a 1978 PSA 8 OPC card years ago from 4square and the card looked like it had been held underwater for several hours and then dried out while still in the holder, it had so many surface bumps all over it. Likely would have graded an "A" if I cracked it out. It was a cheap card not worth sending back, so I just kept it. Knew PSA couldn't have graded it like that, but a little annoyed the seller just even offered it for sale, seeing the card was obviously still not the card it was graded in. |
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The PSA 10 with cert # starting with 4 means it was graded over 10 years ago. The PSA 8 #237... was graded 2-3 years ago; they have gotten more stringent on grading for the most part in the last few years.
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right..there are lots of 'new' companies we see with tons of 'gem mint 10's over the years...if those same companies ended up getting 75% of the market share 10 years later im sure they wouldnt be handing out 10s like they did before........you know those companies like the KSAs of the world etc
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I see a 4 you are stating is 10+ years ago and a 237 is 2-3 years ago. |
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