The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questions are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Today’s Question:
*QotD: Suddenly all PSA certs are deactivated! PSA has decided that 16xxx certs are the only accurate grades. Will your collections value be significantly impacted if all cards became raw? * (This was a suggested question)
Helpful Considerations: Still worth a fair amount? Your only profit is now your profit off recycling junk plastic? You dont care because you hoard everything anyways?
So your question is, “If PSA were to deactivate your certs, would the value of your collection drop?” I think the resounding answer is yes for everyone.
most cards I grade and have graded with PSA are to sell those have all sold.
Very few of my PC graded cards have any significant value upticks by being slabbed and only half (like 10) are PSA cuz their slabs are ugly but graded options on eBay/reddit were limited.
From a personal standpoint no, my connection to the cards remains the same and so does their condition. But from a monetary perspective yes, there is no avoiding that.
I would still keep my cards in their plastic slabs, since they’re well protected, although I might send some of them to CGC.
Probably the most affected ones would be PSA10 or blatantly overgraded cards, which I don’t have anyway.
I do not have any PSA graded cards in my collection so I’d be fine. This would actually be great if people then sold off everything for raw value, I’d buy so much more than I already do.
