PSA has a new president

[BobC]

Originally Posted by MattyC

Which makes the only thing crazier the guys who put that sticker and slab on such a pedestal instead of using their own two God-given eyes to determine what looks best to them. Every time some PSA 9 with, let's call it sub-optimal eye appeal, sets some price record at an AH, it boggles my mind.

Don't disagree with anything you said, but in regards to your above quote, to those collectors simply concerned about their ranking on the Registry, the only thing they really do care about is the flip and the grade on the card. So since only PSA graded cards get added to the PSA Registry, the grade that PSA puts on a card is all important to them. I'd bet anything that if you had someone working on a Registry set, and two examples of a particular card they still needed came up for sale in an auction where one was in a much older PSA flip and very generously graded as a 5, while the other card was in a much, much newer flip, and while centered and visibly presented as much nicer than the card graded as a 5, only got graded as a 4, that Registry collector will pick the higher graded card every time. Even if the lower graded 4 card actually looks and presents significantly better than the card graded as a 5. In the case of the Registry, the grade will always override the actual condition and presentation of the card. And they'll pay more for that higher grade as well.