The long awaited PSA half grade!

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Do all T206 Cobb PSA 3's sell for the same price each time? Do all 33 Goudey Ruth PSA 8's sell for the same price each time? Of course not. High end cards for the grade have always sold for a premium and lower end examples sell for a discount. The hobby did not need a .5 on the holder to make that call. This is not going to change with a new half grade system and I doubt prices will reflect a significant change unless the registry folks buy into this process, which is what PSA is betting on.

The concept that upon submitting your card for the half grade consideration that it cannot go down in grade or be deemed altered seems inherently wrong. The implication is that you are paying a fee to buy a grade (albeit a half grade), risking nothing other than the submission fee. How can PSA only acknowledge betterment and not be required to address errors in their original assessments? The errors they made were only to the detriment to the collector by under grading a card? They never holdered an altered card or over graded one? Not that most of you have ever had faith in PSA but this process completely undermines their standing as a competent and neutral 3rd party grader and reinforces that PSA does is not looking to correct or grade more accurately the cards already in population.