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Originally Posted by Kutcher55
The money people are willing to pay for PSA 10s like these is of course insane when you could stack the card up against a big pile of 9s and even the most discerning card guy wouldn’t be able to call it out as the best in the bunch. PSA 10 is really an ego and money thing. This is why PSA manipulates the ten grade to such a huge extent. There’s a lot of cream up there for them and their favored dealers to squeeze out of people with deep pockets.
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There was a "newly graded" PSA 9 that sold on Ebay a month Earlier for ~$1400 that imho had considerably stronger eye appeal than the "older graded" PSA 10 - At a point a guy is paying for a plastic slab with a number on it that happens to have a card in it. Buy the card - NOT the holder! My head EXPLODED when I saw that sale - I couldn't believe Memory lane wasn't shouting it from the rooftops! I know the consignor - he took losses on a bunch of other items, glad he made up for it on that one.