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Originally Posted by Fred
Can some explain something about grading and fees. If a card is submitted for grading and the card has been deemed more valuable than the price paid for the grading fee, then does the TPG grade not grade it unless an adjusted (increased) fee is paid? I can only imagine this happens very frequently.
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PSA will hold your card hostage and force you to pay the upcharge fee if you want to get it back in its graded holder. Alternatively, you can decline to pay the upcharge fee and they will return it back to you ungraded. However, they will still charge you the grading fee for the service level you submitted it at.
So if you submit a card at the $300 grading fee level, and they want to upcharge you to a $1k grading fee, you can decline the upcharge and they will send your card back ungraded and they will still charge you the $300.
I have done this before.