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The upcharge is to get people to use the appropriate service levels. A lot of people get away with submitting expensive stuff in bulk or something with no sales. It’s a liability issue to not properly value the items your submitting. That’s why when you get the email they say something like “you might not have known this card was going to grade a 10 and the grade is 2x 3x what you valued it, hence the upcharge” aka if you were that confident in the 10 you should’ve used a higher service level. Imagine having one of the newer bulk employees handling a few thousand $ card when their max liability is supposed to be 150$
Big win if you ask me. I’m currently collecting unopened packs of Pokémon cards for my kid. I think it would be a really cool wedding or first child gift
I dont like them at all tbh. I just have the Itsuki that I got awhile back when I was looking for that specific card (it was only available graded at the time and no raw version)
Psa has been really weird lately. They give surprising high grades for super high end vintage and then suddenly for some random card give like a grade that gives no value since the goal was to sell it. Gave me a 10 for a 4000 card and then on another gave me a 5 and that card even if it was a 10 would only be like $180.
Psa is basically the easy mose way to get 10s. I used to like CGC cause they were mega strict which made 10s feel deserved. They arent as strict anymore though cause people just want their 10s. Deserving or not. I got a psa 10 1st ed base magikarp and its worse then my psa 9 of the same card.
depends on what you want. I'm not grading for maximum value to sell down in the future like most. Some cards just look better in certain slabs (like Weiss Schwarz looks better in BGS than psa)
