Save money and/or to get your own custom items authenticated. This is the problem the blue label addresses. That Mario Pikachu was for sale by the PSA employee that was fired over grading and selling his own weird fake cards/custom cut autos. Basically he’s the reason for all this happening.
I sent all mine that way for two reasons. I typically send in batches with other autos (pages, cuts, etc) and it saves quite a bit on each card + saves me from doing multiple orders which saves even more on shipping fees.
My current order has two pages, two artist proofs and two basketball cards, as an example
Couldn’t you just ship two orders in one shipment? I’m unsure if it works like that with the other items you mentioned, but it would at least keep the shipping costs down.
Overall it’s a pretty neat solution to the problem. I would’ve liked to see PSA not grade any copyright infringed cards (i.e. fake/custom cards), but I’m sure there are some gray areas that make this solution a lot easier for them.
Sorry to dig this up. I’ve bought these from eBay US, when they arrive am I right in thinking I could crack and resubmit with ‘Value Auto Grade Only’ through 3rd party back to PSA to get a red label and card authenticated and auto graded as well as the card name/set/number on label . Probably a waste of money but may drive my ocd nuts them labels.
Id think you wouldnt even have to crack it im sure there is a service that would just have them crack it and authenticate the card since they already certed the auto.
It is true that it is a good way to differentiate things, but on the other hand it becomes something strange, possibly in the future we will have that color closely associated with autographs.
