Since the SGC news, results from trying to cross a SGC card to PSA

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Snowman

I generally crack them out first, but not always. If I'm concerned about a card being rejected for minsize or some other reason, then I will keep it in the slab and send as a true crossover. Or if I want the grade on the slab to influence their decision, then I might send it as a true crossover as well. But 95% of the time, I will just crack the card out and submit it raw.

Cool. Mostly I was trying to evaluate whether you've ever gotten a bump while keeping it in the old slab.

I'm guessing that's rare, but I've only once attempted submitting without cracking first. I crossed this card from SGC 6 to PSA 5, without cracking it out. Would it have scored higher if I had cracked it out first? Hard to say, but I wasn't willing to take the chance. And with this particular issue, the grade isn't particularly important anyway.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by raulus

Cool. Mostly I was trying to evaluate whether you've ever gotten a bump while keeping it in the old slab.

I'm guessing that's rare, but I've only once attempted submitting without cracking first. I crossed this card from SGC 6 to PSA 5, without cracking it out. Would it have scored higher if I had cracked it out first? Hard to say, but I wasn't willing to take the chance. And with this particular issue, the grade isn't particularly important anyway.

Yes, I've gotten bumps by keeping cards in their holders before. In both directions. It just depends on the card.

Yours might get a 6 from a different grader on a different day. There's a lot of variance, especially with PSA. They're looking at that top left corner and the registration misalignment. That's what is causing the 5. But some PSA graders will call it a 6. Just not as many as will call it a 5.