PSA tiered grading

[CurtisFlood]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Yeah, it gets asked a lot. They rationalize it because of their grade guarantee: if they are wrong on a $100,000 card, they owe someone duped by it that much. So the $500 submission fee is like their self-insurance amount. Beckett doesn't have a guarantee, and SGC just got rid of theirs.
If you're going to submit to those jokers, value it as a raw card in the same condition. If there is a vast difference between your submission level and the value of the card after grading, they will contact you to up charge the service level.
I've submitted over a thousand to them in the past five years, but am now boycotting PSA because of how inept they are.

They are pretty sorry, I have only had 2 cards graded by them in 31 years, but won't get any more done by them until things change.