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I remember someone posted in the Rickey Henderson thread about the 10 that sold for $140k or so describing how little 10 were as a percentage which seemed almost a manipulation based on the # of submissions.
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PSA doesn't get paid to grade cards per se; PSA gets paid to create scarcity so that some people win the lottery and can sell otherwise commonly available cards for huge numbers.
I'm sure they are well aware of this, and it gives them every incentive to keep the high-grade populations down. Whether they do it by rewarding favored submitters, or by creating subjective "extra-super-duper-mint" standards that are (a) essentially intangible and (b) practically unattainable, or by some combination of both, I'm sure they do it.