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Originally Posted by Wid_Conroy
I don’t break them out. I don’t believe that the grader sits there and downgrades a card because it shows up in a PSA slab. I believe that to be one of the “myths of the hobby “
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I actually feel the opposite. Human nature and the way the brain is wired, I think it is harder to form your own opinion on something when you see an opinion from someone else.
If you are handed two of the same card, one raw, and one in a PSA 9 holder, your brain will subconsciously think about those cards differently. Also, if you are sending a slab to PSA that has subgrades on it (like BGS or HGA or CSG), if you are the grader and you see a card has a 9 for corners, you are going to look at the corners more closely.
I saw a youtube video the other week where a group submitter submitted 30-35 cards in BGS holders to PSA for crossover, and the rate was something like 5 out of the 35 actually crossed over, and 1 of those was a no min grade.
Every grading company wants to be known as having the highest grading standards. PSA doesn't have an incentive to take an SGC 9.5 or BGS 9.5 and cross it to a 10. Likewise, BGS has no incentive to cross a PSA 10 to a BGS 10, because a BGS 10 has more prestige and value.
If you don't care about the grade you get and encapsulation/protection is all that matters, then sure, leave it in the slab and have the experts remove it and re-holder it. If you actually want to get an "unbiased" review of the card and a grade, then crack it out and submit it raw. It literally takes 30 seconds to crack out a card with very basic tools, and there is almost zero risk to the card itself.