CGC to PSA Cross-Grading Result

[kevinertia]

@pfm

Don’t over-interpret these results. I think the take-away is that there is a lot of potential in older CGC slabs. I was selective about my choices but not really that strict. A few of them may have been CGC 8.5/9 and I was shooting for PSA 9 for my own collection. If the before → after value is greater than the cross-grading cost, it’s worth doing.

@stryker2407

The lesson I take from this is that I have to inspect the card before I crack them out because otherwise the results will be all over the place.

^ These are the points people should pay attention to, not the stats.

I’ve crossed a CGC 5.5 to a BGS 10 but have plenty of 9.5s that aren’t PSA 10s. People trying to make averages or chance percentages out of the numbers are missing the point (to be clear this comment isn’t aimed at pfm - it’s all the “HEY GUYS IS MY 9.5++ CHORIZO ACTUALLY A 10” posts). If you look at the card and think it’s “undergraded”, then it’ll probably upgrade on a resub. If not, then it probably won’t. And I stress the “probably” part for a reason - aside from the different companies have different specific standards, you can send the same card to the same grading company 20 times and get a range of results just on the variance of different graders on different days.

Anyways, in conclusion:

@kevinertia

I’ve crossed a PSA 5 into a CGC 8.5 and a completely different CGC 8.5 into PSA 10. Ergo, PSA 5 = PSA 10.