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Posted By: JK

Thanks Matt.

"SGC does ignore the qualifier on the slab when looking at a cross-over. They, of course, do not ignore the defect on the card that caused the qualifier."

As for the comment above, I think we are essentially saying the same thing. SGC will simply evaluate the card and the defect. So, if a card is graded a PSA 8(MK) and sent in for crossover without any instruction, SGC will only cross it if it would receive an 88 under their grading scale, mark and all. Lets assume, however that the MK is due to someone writing their name on the reverse in ink (in reality, I have no idea if an otherwise near-mint/mint card could actually have that much writing and only receive an MK qualifier but that is not important for my example), I am fairly certain that the card would likely grade no better than a 30 under SGC's standards. Therefore, if you wanted the card to cross regardless of grade, you would need to specify a "minimum grade 30" in your instructions or its likely to come back in the original psa 8(MK) slab.