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Originally Posted by T_Hamilton
Was on vacation and come back to this thread... Certainly helps re-entry as I own one of the three graded PSA 1 Joe Jacksons and my copy is a helluva lot nicer than the one that sold in Memory Lane (no crease or tape stains on the back).
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Something doesn't make any sense at all then, how does that only get a 1 grade? Is there something wrong with your Jackson supplement that we can't see in the scan, like maybe a tear(s) in the paper? It boggles my mind that even though PSA has only graded a little over 100 of these M101-2 supplements so far that almost every single one of them has graded no better than a 1.0 or 1.5. Don't people submitting items for grades usually send in their bettter ones, looking for the highest grades possible? I can understand if some people want to maybe send in a not so great example of an item at first as sort of a test to see how the TPG handles and grades it and/or make sure they approve of the way it is encapsulated and the holder itself, but virtually everyone submitting these first M101-2s being graded by PSA? There are plenty of BVG graded M101-2 supplements out there that look to be fairly graded and are in much higher grades than anything graded by PSA to date. Yet from some of the scans of these PSA graded supplements I've seen so far, they look comparable to, and in some instances maybe even better than, higher graded BVG M101-2s. I have not been able to compare a BVG and PSA graded M101-2 side by side, let alone even see a PSA graded supplement in person, yet. Perhaps being ale to will answer a lot of this. Hey T_Hamilton, did you try asking PSA why your M101-2 Jackson only got the grade it did if it really is as nice as you say, and if you did, what did they say? I've always heard that they won't really tell you, which makes no sense to me since you're paying them good money to do a service for you.
Maybe the best way to finally get a real idea of what may be going on would be to have someone send in a much higher graded M101-2, still in its BVG holder, and ask PSA to do a crossover. Would love to see how that would end up. And if those M101-2 prices from the recent Memory Lane auction look to be holding true in the future, I can see someone looking to attempt such a crossover much sooner as opposed to later.
And as far as wondering if the effects of those recent M101-2 prices from Memory Lane's auction may have an impact on the pricing of these supplements going forward, I noticed on Ebay someone already has a BVG 7.5 graded M101-2 of the Cobb supplement up for sale at $75,000. Don't really know if this is directly related to the ML auction, but can certainly understand if it was. And if the Cobb supplement seller doesn't get any interest or takers on Ebay, this could be a perfect candidate to ask about crossing over to a PSA holder. That PSA1 graded Cobb supplement went for over $8K in the ML auction. If someone could get this BVG 7.5 Cobb to crossover to PSA at a comparable grade, what do you think that would be worth in comparison to the PSA1 Cobb then? Or do you think it would just end up destroying the value of that PSA1 Cobb?