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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

Will the card be determined to get the bump BY EXAMINING IT IN THE CURRENT HOLDER (i.e., inspecting the card through plastic)? If so, I thought that was a no no. If not the case, then that would mean they take it out of the current slab, re-examine it, and either put it in a bumped-up slab or return it to the original slab (or create a new one if the original was destroyed in the process). It blows my mind to think in such an instance if they realize the card is altered that they would still install/re-install it in a slab opining the card as unaltered. For that matter, even if they make their final decisions by examining the card through a wall of plastic, it still blows my mind that they would knowingly return to circulation a card now determined to be altered. I think Joe Orlando is doing an extraordinary disservice to an industry he professes to serve by not coming on this Board and explaining exactly what PSA's policy is for cards determined upon re-submission to be altered. Do they buy them back and if so, how is the price determined? If they do not and instead return the card to circulation, then maybe its time some PSA lovers who have been blasting (and legitimately so) auction houses for shill bidding and/or card prepping to turn their crosshairs on PSA.