Crossover grading
Cincyfan01
Posts: 75
I was wondering if I could tap your opinions on whether or not I should send this card into PSA. I have never done it before and I want to make sure I don't get an OC attached to the grade! Thanks for your help!
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Always looking for Topps Salesman Samples, pre '51 unopened packs, E90-2, E91a, N690 Kalamazoo Bats, and T204 Square Frame Ramly's
I hate to tell you this, but the chances are that it will not cross over to PSA at all since PSA won't grade trimmed cards. PRO grading has about as poor of a reputation among card collectors as you can get. Most, if not all, of the guys of this board will run fast and far from anything in a PRO holder.
If it isn't trimmed, counterfeit, or otherwise altered, you could always request no qualifiers. The card looks like it would be a PSA 7 candidate.
Best of luck to you if you do submit it.
If the person who submitted this card knows anything about the graded card industry the odds that this card isn't trimmed is essentially zero. The only way this card is unaltered is if the person who sent it in didn't know about PRO's reputation-- i.e., a hobby 'newbie' who had some cards laying around and saw an ad for PRO in Beckett. If this card was submitted by a dealer or even halfway knowledgable collector, though, I wouldn't waste the money submitting it to PSA. Even if it measures up right it could be bleached, recolored, restored, etc. etc.
Here is good article that actually documents a test submission using Pro. An Experiment with PRO