Collectors are paying more for cards with PSA's newest grading labels, why?
Unfortunately, a lot of the older grade cards are at least one to even three grades below that of what a card would grade under the new grading standards. A dealer actually cracked about $1000 worth of slabs and sent them in for new grades and they came back on average two full grades below what they had been previously graded by PSA under their old standards.
I don’t necessarily care about the age of the label, however when looking at older labeled slabs, I look closely at the card because ultimately it is about the card and not simply about the grade.
So yes, buyers tend to want to pay less for older labels.
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