Does this ever happen much that a card comes back a psa9, you take it out and send it back to become a 10? Would think some people would do this with charizard first editions especially. Was just thinking if it were possible at all?
Some don’t even crack it open and just submit it for review.
a dude from here sent his 1st ed shadowless zard 9 in for review and it came back 10. was pretty awesome. I hate him.
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%100 thought things like this would happen.
I will throw things at him. his name is @xuzu
It was many moons ago when i first joined here on a dark and stormy night.
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It’s important to me to distinguish that i sent it to them to review, I didn’t take it out.
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How does one go about doing that?
PSA has a service called “Review.” When you start the submission process on their website it’s the first set of options. Pretty self explanatory once you see it. It is generally looked down upon to break open a card’s holder and submit it as a new submission because not only are you inflating the population report but you are essentially trying to argue a grade given by a “professional grader.” However, time to time you may find cards that absolutely deserve to be bumped up a grade. My very first submission of 97 cards contained three cards that had no whitening, no scratching, were well centered, but still got 9’s. I looked them over very carefully in intense light at multiple angles and decided to resubmit them. They all three got 10’s and remain in my collection still. If a card truly does deserve to be bumped up than there’s no reason not to submit it as a review rather than break the case.
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Well put mate
I’ve both broken cards out of the case and sent them in for review through PSA’s service. Here’s why I broke some cards out of the case rather than using the review service:
- I was already sending in a raw card order and using the review service would require me to spend over 2x more per card on a separate order
- I didn’t want PSA to be biased by seeing the previous grade the card was given, i.e. they would be looking for something that made it a 9 rather than considering it as a possible 10.
I don’t see the real issue with cracking and resubmitting once or twice to see if a card gets bumped up. If you know how to do it and send the old labels back after, there is no downside. Of course continually cracking and resubmitting (5+ times) is an issue as you’re just hoping to get a soft grader. But if my card gets a 10 the second time I send it in, I don’t see what’s wrong with that.
Note: I’ve had similar success rates (apprx. 2/3 upgrade to 10 rate) with both review and cracking out of the case.
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