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LetsGoBucsWell this is certainly a tough thread to keep track of
I'm fairly uninterested in graded cards per se, but economics and pricing does interest me.
Over time I think you won't see additional value created by the new policy PSA has....perhaps in the short term there will be those that generate additional value by getting an 8.5 and then selling. But I would tend to believe that after a couple of years that the 8.5 cards will be selling for more than an 8 used to sell for....but that 8's will sell for less than they used to sell for - and perhaps significantly less. By not lowering any grades I would have to assume that some 8's are actually 7.somethings that were missed and over time people will adjust there purchases in line with that. Not to mention that I think that if your collecting 8's today that tomorrow you'll want 8.5's.
I think that this will be especially true with lower grade for EX and EX/MT - I assume 5's and 6's? A 5.5 will be a true EX and a 5 will become EX- (which looks incredibly familar to how grading used to be done by the amateurs!!) And buyers will pay the EX price for the 5.5 but something less than today for the 5.
Just my discounted two cents worth