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Al C.risafulliI do think it is a little bit apples and oranges with respect to calling it the equivalent of a review with a minimum grade requirement.
Most of the time when you're submitting a card with a minimum grade requirement, you're submitting a card graded by another service, for crossover. In this case, you're submitting PSA-graded cards that were graded using a different grading scale, for review in homes that it will adapt favorably to the new scale. However, if PSA got it wrong the first time, you don't have to deal with any consequences - it's all upside.
The problem with that, of course, is that it is NOT "win/win." It's "win" for the submitter, and "win" for PSA, but it's definitely not "win" for the collector who buys the cards that didn't get the bump. That collector, unfortunately, has no way of knowing whether the cards they're buying have been resubmitted for a bump. And by plainly stating that they will not downgrade any card they find to be overgraded upon review, they're also saying - indirectly, by association - "Any card you receive that has a straight grade may or may not be accurately graded."
-Al