True Population of Substantial Cards

[JollyElm]

I would guess that a (very, very) large percentage of the cards that have been cracked out and resubmitted have never had their old labels sent in by the owners to be 'processed' (for lack of a better word) and the Cert Numbers removed from the pop reports.

With 'regular' value cards that have pops in the hundreds or thousands, there isn't much motivation to send the labels back in to the TPG. Removing a single PSA 6 from the pop of 685 PSA 6s doesn't have any impact, so why even bother.

And with 'high' value cards, I would imagine many/most people who resubmit them would like to hold onto the old labels just to have a full history of a card's journey, whether or not they want that info for when they eventually sell it.