Has anyone tried Reholder service to replace the case of your old PSA card?
There are a few things I want to know:
Will the serial number change?
Will you get the new case with hologram? (my main motivation)
Can you submit it together with grading submissions?
Considering you can submit it together with grading submissions, it is only $7 per card + return shipping with your graded cards.
Do you think it is worth it?
You have to do a separate order for reholder service. There are 4 types of orders when submitting cards to PSA: Grading, Review, Crossover and Reholder. Each will require their own separate order.
It was/is totally worth it to me. I didn’t like having sets of PSA cards, some with the holo and some without. I have some now where the backs do/don’t have serial numbers but I’m not too bothered about that. What’s even worse is having PSA cards that are scratched up (sometimes I cringe at how people must be treating them, or when I see people sliding them across surfaces in videos), so I want all my cases to be as minty and clear as possible. It’s a shame that they really seem to scratch easily, and some of them come like that from PSA.
The cards in my collection I intend to keep for a very long time so that’s another reason it’s worth it to me.
@xuzu Exactly! I don’t plan on reselling any of my cards. I only collects and treat my cards like they are my babies. So, I want them as new and minty as possible.
To better help your decision, if your card has the older case, I would recommend re-holdering for the newer case. While the older design is not bad, the newer case is more solid in my opinion. I personally will have to re-holder some of my cards I graded years ago.
Honestly depends on the amount of cards. The problem is that people typically want to submit only a couple cards, which PSA charges $18-20 for return shipping. This is why I suggest grading 10 cards for $10.50 each, as the price point is optimal for everyone.
Everyone be careful with what plastic comes in contact with PSA cases. I have a case that has 80% cloudiness on the front when some plastic stuck to it.
I have an additional question regarding reholdering. What experiences do people have? Was there ever a card damaged by PSA? I’m a bit scared to submit my expensive cards for reholdering
If you send out PSA graded cards re-holdering PSA will have verified the cards upon receipt and confirm the cards and grades. If during the re-holdering process the card is damaged they would have no way out. They would be caught red handed. They couldn’t as in the case of sending a gem mint card raw card to them for grading just grade it a 5 from a bent corner and send it back claiming it came in that way. There is no proof upon sending raw cards that get damaged, but they would have no way to refute damage on a review. Only two options are that it was in the case damaged to begin with which they would call an “oversight” on the initial grading and they would have PSA grade guarantee kick in, or they would have to claim the damage as their own, re-grade it post damage and also have some kind of PSA grade guarantee kick in.
I am leery of sending in valuable raw cards, but regrades I would have absolutely 0% concern over.
I have 5 or 6 PSA cards I bought on eBay back a while ago, nothing high dollar. The moron stacked them and literally wrapped them in packing tape DIRECTLY ON THE SLABS. Top and bottom ones are totally wrecked. Sides of all the others are sticky. These have been set aside for re-holder but such low value cards I haven’t been able to justify their own re-holder submission yet. One I actually wanted to try getting the tape residue off and used some IPA I had. 0/10 would not recommend. Completely clouded the whole front of the case lol.
To answer your question from experience, I don’t worry of damage. If anything the card already being graded will protect it better in transit, which is where most cards are most likely damaged.
Re-holder service is probably the least used service at PSA. Probably only a handful of collectors here actually have used the service. I would personally worry more about a raw card in transit than one already graded.