Best Place for Modern PSA 10s?

Zach Wheat · #1 08-23-2024, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage

This 70% or more of what I submit, sports and nonsports.

The thing that nobody is mentioning is that cards from the 80s and 90s are being graded with extreme prejudice at PSA. They hired a ton of new graders after the covid boom and they seem to all have been trained on chrome/prizm/ultra modern standards. It is a situation thats been discussed frequently on blowout and other forums.

Aside from the high costs, as already mentioned, it just isn't worth submitting a common card that would've been a 10 in 2019 or earlier and getting a 7 or 8. If the standards had remained reliable, the cost would be an acceptable issue for me.

This is correct. I am not a registry person - but this issue makes it difficult to collect certain sets that are driven by the registry. This includes a number of sets from the 1990's - 2000. One example is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield set. I don't think there will be any more PSA 10's given.

Section103 · #2 08-23-2024, 01:26 PM

Thanks - lots of good comments.

I think it's pretty clear that the days of super low grading fees are gone (thats not all bad, IMO). Some of these cards never really made sense to grade, but people certainly did, and I thank them.

Its just a little bit of a bummer when the market makes huge changes that arent always easy to foresee. But I guess if you spend enough time in the hobby, that happens a lot.

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