What Point Card Stock will PSA grade up to?

pjray55

Any help would be appreciated, i am looking to grade a few Ultimate memorabilia 4th Edition Rookie Auto's and want to make sure they will fit within the PSA holder.

Thanks for the help.

Patrick

Aknot

From what I understand abotu the thickness of 3 regular cards. Now what is a regular card now adays is anyones guess......

EagleEyeKid

I think it stinks that they don't grade these super thick patch cards or some of the newer thick cards. In my opinion, they're just losing money rejecting them and refunding the grading fee. If they can cater to different sizes from tobacco to modern, why not do something for thickness? There are a lot of new sets that are super thick and it's becoming the norm.

Aknot

Im thinking it may have something to do with the encapsulation process. Maybe the "machine" cant handle it "yet" and the demand would not justify "upgrading"/creating a new one/attachment. Making a plastic holder is/should be no problem.

mikeschmidt

<< <i>I think it stinks that they don't grade these super thick patch cards or some of the newer thick cards. In my opinion, they're just losing money rejecting them and refunding the grading fee. If they can cater to different sizes from tobacco to modern, why not do something for thickness? There are a lot of new sets that are super thick and it's becoming the norm. >>



You may be right - but there are significant start-up costs to re-engineer the holder in such a way that it is thicker, but the card does not move around too much. If cards continue to be produced in this way -- I'm sure that they will pursue that angle. Some of the other grading companies have seen significant problems with cards being damaged inside the holder - and it's not clear that they could just make one new holder that would accomodate all super-thick cards....

~ms