Let’s hope they get into a car crash or something on the way home to stop the auction.
Nothing serious, just enough to make them unable to end the auction early.
I wouldn’t expect this to be better than an 8. That same seller has lots of graded cards. It’s hard to imagine that seller passing a chance to grade that card.
I didn’t see the picture of the back with that card. Psa can be generous when you send in bulk. They may not give 10s but they do give generous 9s. Case in point we’re my psa 9 espeon and Rayquaza Gold star. Both should be 8s but I sent in like 35 gold stars.almost all 9s.
Even ‘unofficially’ giving you preference if you send in either a lot of cards, or a lot of expensive cards would not only be extremely unfair but it would extremely unprofessional and a business destroyer for PSA.
Every single item that comes through for grading should be treated exactly the same, whether it’s worth 1 dollar or 50k. Keeping that objectivity is probably the most important factor in PSA maintaining their integrity.
Obviously it is impossible to eliminate all unconscious or even conscious prejudice from grading, if a grader knows that something that they are handling is worth 50k, unconsciously they are more than likely to maybe handle it with a bit more care than a card they know is worth 20 bucks.
I don’t think it’s a major issue though, we’d be seeing huge discrepancies (instead of minor ones I have even noticed) if it were a big problem.
But yeah this is going off topic, so let’s leave it.
For those of you looking for psa 10 gold stars a few just popped up from this lady. i sold her a psa 10 Latios previously and I know she has more that may be online for auction soon.