Are cards with older PSA cases worth less?

[benjulmag]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I'd have to give a definitive yes to your overall question. However, there are caveats involved. You could always resubmit the card for reholdering (for whatever the fee is) and POOF!! now it's in a new holder and 'worth more.' Many claim that PSA's standards were lacking back then, so cards received higher grades than they should have and would these days. For me, personally, it seems PSA hammered so many undeserving cards with 'PD' qualifiers. They were certainly heavy-handed in that regard. The possible good news is, if a seller believes his card in an old slab is worth less (but looks pretty sweet to you), you may be able to pick it up at a bargain price.

As someone who has no experience submitting cards for grading, I am unfamiliar with how the process works. Are you saying that if you have a card slabbed by PSA, say 15 years ago, and graded an 8, that for nominal cost you can send the card back and it have it returned in their newest holder WITH NO LESS THAN THE SAME GRADE, regardless if the card by current grading standards merits that grade?

If that it how it works, and assuming the cost is truly nominal, why would a collector who is thinking of selling not do that? Or is the way the system works that in order to be re-slabbed at the same grade the card must by current grading standards deserve that grade? And if it does, is the fee nominal or would it be the same fee one would pay in submitting a raw card?