Modern cards short in PSA holder

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by G1911

Open a few packs of 2024 Topps, put them in a stack, and look closely. One will see they are actually several different sizes and discernible by eye alone, and the stack won’t be uniform on close examination. Cards are still not actually all the same size, just a lot closer than the old days. Adding slab tolerances on top of card tolerances, I would not expect every card to sit perfectly. Surely some/much of it is microtrimming, which is pretty easy to do, but even in a perfect world without our fraudsters around they still would not all be sitting perfect.

Sure, but none are EVER oversized it seems, just short or narrow or both.

[jchcollins]

It may just be me, but for a very long time I have thought that most cards don't fit uniformly very much in PSA holders. This includes modern cards, junk wax cards, and vintage cards and can be seen IMO with both very new and very old PSA holders.

SGC is different, all cards there seem to fit much more snugly.

This is interesting to me in light of the fact that PSA is so perpetually bad with vintage and determining what is properly sized, what is minsize short, what is trimmed or altered short, etc. - and then how often they of course can change their minds over time on the exact same cards that are resubmitted.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Sure, but none are EVER oversized it seems, just short or narrow or both.

I wonder if this is more of a PSA thing. Do they size the inserts based on the larger standard sized cards, which is why you don’t see cards that are too big to fit in the holder.

Or alternatively, they might have a few different inserts and will always upsize a little rather than end up with the bumpers squeezing the sides.