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Posted By: Eric Brehm

No, Joe didn't mention any incentive for people to send in their cards to get the back type added to the label. Basically, a bunch of people were grilling him about the confusion that had been introduced into the T206 population reports because of their decision to change their labelling system (from generic to back-specific), and that was the best answer he could come up with.

PSA does offer a Re-Holder service, which I think is only $5 per card, and there is no danger of a grade being lowered when you get this service. They are just re-encapsulating it with the same grade. In the case of T206's, this would presumably include adding the back type to the label (and a corresponding correction to their population report). I doubt whether many collectors would want to take the trouble to do this, just to improve the quality of the population reports.

By the way, if you send in a graded card to PSA for Review (and pay their full grading fees), they will not lower the grade; they will only raise it if they feel it deserves a bump up (for example, to one of the new half grades they have recently introduced).

If you break a card out of its holder and send it in raw, you could get a drop a grade (or worse, an assessment that the card has been altered).