# PSA Pop Control AKA: Gemocide

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**Category:** Grading\
**Tags:** pop-control, grading, psa-9, psa-10, psa\
**Created:** [October 10, 2023, 5:28am UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/psa-pop-control-aka-gemocide/44096 "2023-10-10T05:28:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 8, 2023, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/psa-pop-control-aka-gemocide/44096/2 "2023-10-08T22:38:12Z")

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> [@Price of Vintage at the moment?](https://www.elitefourum.com/t/price-of-vintage-at-the-moment/44053/31):
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> they are naturally going to have a bias for cards they can easily buy raw, grade and make a quick buck on. You can’t do that with vintage right now, and I’m not sure you’ll ever be able to do it with vintage again.

Vintage has (since few years ago) been difficult to grade, ie; pop control. Personally I witnessed it myself (a few different occasions) when I sent in a mint copy of vintage card to PSA and got an 7 or 8 back. But when the same card was broken slab and resub to BGS, it got 9 or 9.5 back!

Since then, I totally gave up buying raw vintage cards, sending in for grading. I simply just buy graded slabs.

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