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RobMy experience with PSA has been there are grade uppers (where a card is borderline it goes to the next higher grade), or the grade downers (where a borderline card drops to the lower grade). This card got a downer. I don't think it's undergraded, but could have been easily a 2.
My pet peeve about card grading in general is no information is provided from the companies as to whether they test their graders and take other steps to ensure grades assigned will be consistent regardless of who grades the card. I'm guessing the companies don't do that because 1) that type of activity doesn't generate revenue and 2) Achieving consistency regardless of who is grading would drastically cut down on the resubmissions, which probably accounts for 5% of their business, and 3) I don't see collectors demanding grading consistency, so theres no point to acvhieve consistency.
For the right price, the buyer may want to resubmit this card to get an upper.