I’ve recently picked up one of two PSA 10 examples of the #23 Pichu card from the Japanese Stormfront set. Despite getting the number correct, PSA is under the impression that this card is instead a Pikachu:
My first thought was to send this back to PSA to be relabelled, but where this isn’t a simple mislabelling error but instead a complete misidentification of the card at hand, is this more desirable than a correctly-labelled card?
Definitely less desirable 
Imo no. Label errors are quite annoying and they won’t add any value. But it completely depends on your own preference if you want to send it back for label correction or not.
I sort of want to contact PSA to inform them of the error and then get another one graded so that I can have both a #23 Pikachu and #23 Pichu, but I feel like that’s a lot of work for very little reward. I guess alternative option is to take a sharpie to the PSA case and either 1. turn it into Pikachu, or 2. crudely transform the artwork from a Pichu into a Pikachu.
@cullers has a PSA misidentification error that is quite desirable.
www.elitefourum.com/t/the-charizard-that-psa-does-not-want-you-to-see/22103/1
His circumstance is atypical though and to 99%+ of people a normally gradable card (unlike the above) that is simply mislabeled is just seen as an annoyance and something needing fixing down the line.
I think the FPO is something completely different then a Pichu being named Pikachu. The FPO’s were legal grades when they allowed it, that they changed their policy on them is not the fault of the submitter, seller or purchaser. A Pichu being labeled as a Pikachu is a clear error from either the submitter or the grader.
I think it’s all but adding value. I’ve noticed that since the ‘hype’ over OC and MC cards, people are looking desperately for another type of error they can cash on. While MC are real errors by the printer, good quality control should have taken them out, they appear less frequent and thus have some premium for some collectors.
Is there any way to fix this? Or can I donate my time to fix the Pokémon section of PSA? There are so many errors it seems. One to fix personally is the differences between the prerelease aerodactyl labels.
Mjisaacs
NO