Crossovers?

dcaudle68

I hear this term alot. I am assuming it means submitting a card that was graded by one company to a different company for their grade? How does that work? do they add their grade and the card has 2 grades or does the new company reholder it and give it just their grade? Do they take into account what the card had already received when giving out their grade? Who is considered to be the toughest grader? Beckett or PSA? Thanks for any thoughts!!!

Dean

Looking for PSA 8's from the 1975 Topps set!!

brucemo

You can submit graded cards to some companies, and they will grade them, pop them out of the slab, and put them into their own slab.

In other cases, you take the card out yourself and send it in.

There are no cases where you'll see grades from two companies on the same slab.

bruce

Cyphilissb

BGS has the modern singles market, psa has the vinatge and set collectors market. (SGC has a chunk of the set market as well) Everyone else is crap.

JeffVN

I hate to differ with Brucebut you can seea card with 2 grades. If you go to a card show with a non-BGS graded card and ask them to do a Crossover grade preview they look at the card in the slab, put it in a bag, and put their grade on the bag. I saw some for sale on E-Bay several months ago. PSA cards witinside a sealed bag with the BGS tamper-proof seal on it. the cards were PSA 10s with a BGS 9.5 on the outside. It cost the same as getting the card graded at the show (like $10-15.00), but you know in advance what the BGS grade will be before you break it out of the other comapny's slab.