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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

While I haven't discussed the PSA half-grade bump up with Dave Forman or anybody else at SGC, from everything I know about him and his company, I would be shocked if they would want any part of this caper. Sure, they would love the business of putting in SGC slabs tens of thousands of PSA-slabbed cards. But not at the price of having to turn a blind eye to alterations. Unlke their competition, they're too smart to throw their reputation under a bus by putting the SGC seal of approval on cards they know or have the capability to know are altered. Going further, inasmuch as a number of PSA 8s are clearly overgraded, even if they are not altered, I can't see SGC certifying a card as an 8 if they don't think it meets that standard. So that too would kill it for a lot of potential crossover customers. Not only would SGC not agree to overlook alerations, they would also not be willing to slab a card an 8 unless they truly felt it was an 8.