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FreddyMercuryIt would have been in my best interest as far as sale value to keep the 5 and move on. But it went beyond selling for maximum profit. I stopped after the third attempt to get a higher grade. I just wanted to see the differences the card would grade. We all know that grading companies are not perfect but inconsistency this extreme is a big problem. This is a true Grading Horror Story. I'm not trying to change the topic but heres is a much scarier true horror story that happened a year and a half ago. I'll be as brief as possible. I friend of mine has a collection. He purchased 3 boxes each of 1993 and 1994 SP baseball. It may seem like BS to you pre-war guys but listen. One of the boxes is Arods Foil RC and the other is Jeters Foil RC. Both card in PSA 9 are huge but in PSA 10 are $10,000+ in some instances. My friend opened the boxes and got 4 Jeter and 5 Arod. All cards were Gem Mint with no chipping. I advised he send the cards in to grade. 2 weeks later we get the grades on line. Of the 9 total cards, he got (1) PSA 9, (6) PSA 8 and (2) PSA 7. How can this be. Well when the cards were mailed back it was obvious. Either PSA's professional graders dinged every corner taking it out of the case or they switched the cards out with lesser grades. Switching cards out seems impossible right, think again. A grader could have those exact cards in his pocket and as soon as a Mint one comes through the door, he does the old switch a-rroo. I do not claim to be a professional but I have graded hundreds, maybe thousands of cards. I look at cards under loupes and magnification before I send them off and I can tell you the Jeter and Arods were Mint, the ones that came back defiantly were not. The moral of the story is PSA is either, crooked, stupid or just clumsy.