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Originally Posted by Republicaninmass
I see old.psa 4s with hairline creases and 3 soft corners. They'd be a 2 today!
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Ya, I encounter those often as well. The moving of the goal posts is perhaps most evident in the mid grade range. Nearly every single recently graded 4 I encounter now without creases or wrinkles would have graded as a 5, 6, or even 7 in the past. Every single one of them.
My collection is mostly full of these sorts of cards. I just laugh when they arrive. Then I crack them out and either send them to SGC or resubmit them to PSA if the value difference is high enough to make up for the longshot odds of getting an accurate-ish grader at PSA (which seems to happen about 30% of the time for bulk vintage). By "accurate-ish grader" I mean that they are only 0.5 to 1 grade tighter than old cert cards rather than the majority of bulk vintage graders which are more like 1.5 to 2 grades lower. That said, if you submit cards at the Express level or higher, you'll usually get a fair or at least "accurate-ish" grader. My higher level submissions with PSA are at least somewhat consistent and predictable anyhow. It's primarily the bulk vintage stuff that gets really hammered.