# Black Label Bubble? 🫧

**URL:** <https://www.elitefourum.com/t/black-label-bubble/40169>\
**Category:** Market\
**Tags:** opinion, popular, black-label\
**Created:** [March 11, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/black-label-bubble/40169 "2023-03-11T23:58:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/black-label-bubble/40169/110 "2023-03-29T20:02:56Z")

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Agreed:

@Dyl - The tolerances for receiving a PSA 10 is indisputably larger than the tolerances for the black label but the differences are borderline negligible for a “strong 10.” Given that “perfection” would hold a higher value, I’m curious to see if the community will eventually agree to some ratio relative to the PSA 10 valuation.

Since there was a local submission for BGS grading a couple months ago, I decided to give it a try and send in some cards… After straining my eyes for about an hour and a half the night before the submission, I settled on about 25 cards that would be PSA 10 equivalent - I ended up receiving multiple BGS 10s and a couple black labels - all of this to say that after reviewing the conditions of the cards **again** in the graded slabs, the differences seemed so minute and subgrades inconsistent that it felt very arbitrary by the grader(s) of the cards. (And completely unrelated, I need to say the QC of BGS was absolute garbage for this submission - seeing dust particles between the sleeve and the slab of two of my black labels is absolutely triggering - it really felt like they slabbed the cards in a dusty garage)

@smpratte - I did not jump on the PSA grading train until around 2015 - would you say that in the early days of PSA grading, was there also a wide range of pricing for PSA 10s, or has it there always been a more consistent ratio between the 9s and 10s?

@pfm - I suppose there’s something to be said about humans historically wanting to chase perfection and purity in an imperfect world 🤐

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