FS: 1954 Bowman #66 TED WILLIAMS - No Longer Available

[robw1959]

Sorry - No Longer Available.

[jfkheat]

PSA won't reholder the card. They have no way of knowing that the card in the SGC slab is the same as was in the PSA slab. They will regrade the card.
James

[robw1959]

I respectfully disagree based on my experiences with PSA and SGC. In order to maintain an accurate population report companies like PSA have to have some way of knowing which of their cards submitted for grading have been graded before by PSA. Otherwise the sheer number of cards cracked out of holders for (hopeful) upgrades would be artificially inflated. Many people, myself included, believe PSA has some invisible marking technology that only shows up under certain lighting conditions.

[robw1959]

I recall maybe around 10 years ago PSA had even admitted in writing that they apply invisible markings to their customers' submissions. I called and spoke to someone at PSA about this and could only get them to say that it is their practice to mark memorabilia in this manner. That way, the COA can be definitively linked to the memorabilia item in question. But the question remains - if it helps PSA to re-identify items other than trading cards, why wouldn't they also apply these markings to trading cards as well for similar reasons?

[Taxman]

Psa does not mark cards they grade!

[robw1959]

Originally Posted by Taxman

Psa does not mark cards they grade!

How can you be so absolutely certain? They have the technology to do so without the mark being visible at all.

[Taxman]

Cant prove a negative. Better question what proof do you have it happened?

[jfkheat]

If PSA marked all cards they grade, any time someone cracked a card out of the case and sent it in again hoping for a higher grade PSA would know what it was graded before. They wouldn't bump to a higher grade because that would be admitting they were wrong the first time it was graded.
James