IS CRACKING REALLY A GOOD IDEA? in the long run

benderbroeth

i know so many people love to crack the graded cards so they can resend them in hopes of a better grade but if everyone does it wont some lower grades be made to have more grades then there really are? so lets say i have a psa-8 mantle rookie and i re sub it and it gets a 9 then there may seem to be 45 graded 8's but lets say 44 other people do the same thing and they all get new gardes of 8 also now there seems to be 89 graded 8 cards when in fact there are only 44...ami making any sense?

the only reason i thought of this is because so many people seem to be doing this in hopes of a better grade.

Griffins

yes, and this is why the pop reports are just rough guidelines and not absolute.

Allen

send it your flips so they can adjust it.

mikeschmidt

Population reports only signify one side of the equation, the perceived 'supply' of a card available in a certain grade.

If there is sufficient demand there, prices will rise. The free market rules, and the population report only serves as a guide to the relative easiness or difficulty in finding a particular card. Most experienced collectors develop a feel for how truly tough a card may be, independent of what the population reports may suggest.

~ms