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Originally Posted by parkplace33
I know of at least two recent examples where the cards were downgraded. Not in review but just to reholder. And there was no damage to the slabs.
I would be wary when thinking about reholdering (especially older slabs or overgraded cards). 99 percent of the time its fine, but why chance it?
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I've heard the same stories about our friends at PSA. If they bump your grade on a straight reholder, they need to be paying out under the guarantee. That's BS.
A few years ago I sent an ancient slab back to SGC for a reholder; a '61 Mantle #300 in a 5.5. I looked up the cert on their website and it had been graded more than 20 years ago. All things considered I still agreed with the grade, but you never know, right?
They reholdered it a 5.5 with no questions asked and had it back to me in about 2 weeks. I wonder if PSA would have done the same.
Interestingly enough, from back when Beckett briefly did subgrades for vintage - I have a really nice '69 Reggie RC in a 4.5. When I went to lookup the cert recently, it was nowhere to be found - did not exist in their database. More out of pure curiosity than anything else, I called up Beckett. Their line was that the slab was "so old" (it was from probably 2002 to '05...) that the standards were different, and they could not stand behind the slab. I said ok, well - that makes sense. So if I send this back to you, you'll regrade it and get it back to me for free, right? Nope. They wanted me to do the entire thing on my dime. Uh, no thanks. If I wanted it in a different holder, I'd pay $15 to SGC and have it back in a matter of days. As is I like the BVG subgrades, and the holder it's in - despite the apparent age - is in really good shape, so I'm just going to leave it like that, LOL. In it's "invalid" holder...
