Although this isn't about hockey, I'm sure that vintage hockey collectors can relate to my frustration.
I owned a beautiful vintage baseball card that was graded a PSA 9. This card was absolutely flawless. I purchased it in 2016.
I thought that I would submit it to PSA and it would get a 10. It had to. This card exemplified everything that a gem mint card should.
I submitted the card for a review with a group of others. No bump (2016)
I then submitted the card for an in-person review at the national. No bump (2017)
I then submitted the card at the PSA invitational. No bump (2017)
I didn't receive any notes on any of the rejected tries, but I figured that I must have been missing something.
Frustrated, I reluctantly sold the card and the final auction price was $550.
Fast forward two months, and the card with the same certification number is a PSA 10 that sells through PWCC for over $4000.
I don't know if there is a lesson to be learned here, but I'm flabbergasted that I wasn't given the benefit of the doubt on three submissions, and the new owner gets an upgrade on the first try.
Sometimes that's just the game that you have to play with the #1 third party service in the card collecting world.
I owned a beautiful vintage baseball card that was graded a PSA 9. This card was absolutely flawless. I purchased it in 2016.
I thought that I would submit it to PSA and it would get a 10. It had to. This card exemplified everything that a gem mint card should.
I submitted the card for a review with a group of others. No bump (2016)
I then submitted the card for an in-person review at the national. No bump (2017)
I then submitted the card at the PSA invitational. No bump (2017)
I didn't receive any notes on any of the rejected tries, but I figured that I must have been missing something.
Frustrated, I reluctantly sold the card and the final auction price was $550.
Fast forward two months, and the card with the same certification number is a PSA 10 that sells through PWCC for over $4000.
I don't know if there is a lesson to be learned here, but I'm flabbergasted that I wasn't given the benefit of the doubt on three submissions, and the new owner gets an upgrade on the first try.
Sometimes that's just the game that you have to play with the #1 third party service in the card collecting world.
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