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Originally Posted by jacksoncoupage
This 70% or more of what I submit, sports and nonsports.
The thing that nobody is mentioning is that cards from the 80s and 90s are being graded with extreme prejudice at PSA. They hired a ton of new graders after the covid boom and they seem to all have been trained on chrome/prizm/ultra modern standards. It is a situation thats been discussed frequently on blowout and other forums.
Aside from the high costs, as already mentioned, it just isn't worth submitting a common card that would've been a 10 in 2019 or earlier and getting a 7 or 8. If the standards had remained reliable, the cost would be an acceptable issue for me.
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This is correct. I am not a registry person - but this issue makes it difficult to collect certain sets that are driven by the registry. This includes a number of sets from the 1990's - 2000. One example is the 1991 Topps Desert Shield set. I don't think there will be any more PSA 10's given.