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AlI wonder how diluted the pop report has become. If we are to make the fair assumption that "x" number of cards from almost any collection are crack-outs, or will become crack-outs, how is PSA to know how to handle pop data?
To be more clear...a person cracks out a card, this card exists as a PSA 7, but the owner thinks it could bump to a PSA 8. The card gets cracked out and is submitted raw. If the card becomes graded as a PSA 7, there are now TWO PSA 7s of that card. If the card gets graded as a PSA 8, the original PSA 7 still exists, and the pop of the 8s has just increased by one.
This is an issue only when a PSA tag is cracked and sumbitted to PSA, if it's an SGC to a PSA tag, then there is no issue with the increase in the pop report regardless of the grade. In essence, the card has become cloned. I have not a remote clue how PSA could solve this "problem".
If cards are submitted for the half-point consideration, then I'm sure the original grade of the submitted card is reduced by PSA graders (or whomever in PSA), and the .5 is increased.
As for shilling, I got dizzy reading that stuff...caveat emptor.