Are cards with older PSA cases worth less?

[BeanTown]

If the value goes down with old holders...Unless you are looking to sell in the near future, why in the heck would a anyone submit a card? Just wait until you want to sell it and choose the best TPG of that time. Arent cards graded with the same criteria 20, 10, and 5 years ago?

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

If the value goes down with old holders...Unless you are looking to sell in the near future, why in the heck would a anyone submit a card? Just wait until you want to sell it and choose the best TPG of that time. Arent cards graded with the same criteria 20, 10, and 5 years ago?

Nope, and the price increases for grading is nearly exponential as well. The EX of 15 years ago is the VG of now. Just two years ago you could submit cards at $6/card for bulk in 5 months, now it's $10-15/card and you wait 10 months to get them back.
But if your card value goes from $50 to $500 or $5000 which is now somewhat common in the current crazy bubble market, now you're paying a whole lot more than $15 a card; more like $75-200 to grade through PSA.

Then when the bubble bursts and the card values drop, you might have sunk more into the grading price than the card is worth. But FOMO/YOLO, ya know?

[homerunhitter]

Any updates thoughts on this? Thanks

[homerunhitter]

I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter and discussions on social media groups saying that overall, people want the newer slabs vs older slabs. So already people are wanting the newer cooler slabs which proves the point that todays slabs will take a back seat to the new slabs that gone out in 5,10,20 years! So the question now is why collect todays slabs when in the future they will be outdated much like the “older” slabs are today?

[3-2-count]

If the cert has no issues and I like the quality of the card I could care less if its in an old or new slab.

The card will ultimately determine if I proceed or not, not the age of the plastic that it resides in.

[raulus]

Certainly sellers love to highlight that their card is in a new holder, and therefore you should be willing to pay more for it. They also love to argue that the card is undergraded and therefore it’s worth a lot more.

And sometimes they are probably right, although I’ve never seen anyone ask less and highlight that their card is overgraded…

[Carter08]

I think psa and sgc have gotten tougher on grading recently so a new cert number means that it passed an arguably tougher standard. That said, there are still plenty of old cert numbers that look like undergrades and new cert numbers that look like overgrades.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by raulus

Certainly sellers love to highlight that their card is in a new holder, and therefore you should be willing to pay more for it. They also love to argue that the card is undergraded and therefore it’s worth a lot more.

And sometimes they are probably right, although I’ve never seen anyone ask less and highlight that their card is overgraded…

Well it's an auction company so we're not "asking" any set amount, but we call out over-graded cards fairly regularly.