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Aaron RC...does it have a shot @ a 9?

natelucknateluck Posts: 25 ✭✭
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The seller seems to think it was unjustly graded an 8. I really don't have an opinion, but I was just curious as to what everyone else thinks.

54 Aaron PSA 8

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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    i see that "useaglecorp" has the high bid..
    ·p_A·
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    This is one of those cases where you bid on the card and not the grade, and the seller did a good job of talking it up, but the pic simply isn't big enough to get a gauge of why it's an 8 and not a 9. There has to be something the grader saw to knock it down.

    Lee
  • TimeMachineTimeMachine Posts: 261
    I agree with CD... in fact, I can clearly see that the 3 corners visible do not come to the sharp points one would expect on a mint card... I even think I can see small touches on the top two corners.

    PSA makes mistakes, but this, in my opinion even given a scan like this, is not one of them.

    nice 8 though.
  • jayhawkejayhawke Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭
    I have dealt with the seller. If he thinks it deserves a "9", he would have resubmitted. The last time I spoke with him, he had complete sets from '53-69 baseball. A very seasoned collector/dealer.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Didn't this guy get kicked off ebay last week?
    Good for you.
  • jrdolanjrdolan Posts: 2,549 ✭✭
    The scan isn't large enough to say for certain (maybe that's the idea), but I don't think it's a 9 based on the corners. The centering and apparent lack of print defects are both very nice for this issue, however.

    I don't understand people who claim their card is undergraded and should be resubmitted, but can't be bothered themselves. If it's only a difference between $10 and $20 in value, I can see that, but NOT when going up a grade boosts the value from $3K up to $17.5K.

    Me, I'd make the time. In fact I'd make the time over and over, if I was sure this was a $17,500 card trapped in a $3,000 card's holder.

    Nor do I buy his argument that he doesn't get a break on his grades because he's not a high-volume dealer. Even if true, don't you think with so many thousands of dollars at stake he'd commission a dealer to submit it for him? Also, that idea contradicts his claim for the card's quality because it implies that it's not really a PSA 9 and needs help from the grader to get that number.
  • kobykoby Posts: 1,699 ✭✭


    << <i>Didn't this guy get kicked off ebay last week? >>



    Yes. He was NARU last week so he must have taken care of that problem.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭✭
    To answer the question "Does it have a shot at a PSA 9?" Absolutely, positively not. If it did, this seller would have re-submitted until it 9'ed, or submitted through a dealer. Bottom line, the card is an 8. PERIOD.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    It still will go for what a high end 8 should go for because of the centering and visual appeal. But the fact that he didn't spring for the extra 75 cents to have the pic super sized means to me that he's hiding something. Look at the Babe Ruth ball he has up? If he can get up close pics of that, he can certainly get them for a flat card. This guy's got some amazing stuff.

    Lee
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


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    << <i>Didn't this guy get kicked off ebay last week? >>



    Yes. He was NARU last week so he must have taken care of that problem. >>



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  • MajorDanbyMajorDanby Posts: 1,343


    << <i>Didn't this guy get kicked off ebay last week? >>



    He had this same card up for auction up a few weeks ago. Not sure if the NARU was connected to the aaron rookie.
    My Auctions

  • jayhawkejayhawke Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭
    Maybe he shilled the card the last time it was up for auction? I always thought something was strange about him. After I won one of his auction, I tried to buy one of his sets. We agreed on a price and then he never contacted me again. Shortly after that, he listed the set on ebay. Sure that happens all thime, but I got a strange feeling. I think what you see is what you get. He will not leave any money on the table for the next guy.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,586 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i> see that "useaglecorp" has the high bid.. >>



    Isn't that his own id???
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • kobykoby Posts: 1,699 ✭✭
    Has anyone else sold to "useaglecorp"?
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