The long awaited PSA half grade!

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

Matt -- I understand what you're saying, but it still makes sense to me for them to only assign up-grades in this case. When I send a card in to be re-holdered, because the holder is scratched or cracked, they don't re-inspect the card for proper grading, they just re-encapsulate it with the same grade and send it back. So re-holdering is a relatively cheap service. With the new half grade system, they aren't going to be taking the time to re-inspect card edges for evidence of alteration and so forth, they are just going to be looking for superior qualities such as nice centering or surface gloss or whatever, adding the half grade where appropriate, and sending the card back to the submitter. That is why getting a half grade bump review will be presumably less expensive than having a card re-authenticated and re-graded anew (or 'de novo', as Jeff would say).