Home› Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum

57 PSA 10s out of 57 on 1986 Topps BB submission. HOW?

ajetfanajetfan Posts: 229 ✭
in Trading Cards & Memorabilia Forum
I noticed that a seller recently listed a large batch of 1986 Topps PSA 10s on ebay. I started entering cert #s to see what other cards were graded on the same invoce and I noticed that certs 02410911 through 02410968 were all 1986 Topps' graded PSA 10. I know that this is possible when dealing with modern cards, but with the black borders on the 86T set, I find this just about impossible. Here's a link to my 1986 Topps set. More than 99% of the cards in my master set are from my own submissions. Needless to say, I've submitted a ton of these 86T cards and the best that I've done on any of my 1986 Topps invoices is around 25% PSA 10s. Can anyone help me out to understand how such a run on these difficult cards is possible?






Robert (my email)
-------------------------------------------
my EBAY Auctions

Comments

  • OckhamsRazorOckhamsRazor Posts: 207 ✭✭
    Interesting that the owner of the cards used a consignment seller to unload the cards and, thus, remain anonymous.
    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all "right-thinking" people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

    This is known as “bad luck.”
  • fandangofandango Posts: 2,622 ✭
    submitter may have requested only PSA 10's be slabbed, and if it were a PSA 9 , it would not be slabbed, thus the run of 10's...
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,600 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>submitter may have requested only PSA 10's be slabbed, and if it were a PSA 9 , it would not be slabbed, thus the run of 10's... >>



    Makes sense. If he submitted 200+ cards and asked for a minimum grade of PSA 10, then that's a definite possibility.
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭✭✭
    But wouldn't there be MGs? I thought all submissions get a cert number and a grade or reason not graded.

    I remember somebody looked up a cert number before and it was listed as MG (Minimum Grade not met).

    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • ajetfanajetfan Posts: 229 ✭
    I just called PSA and I was told that minimum grades only applied to crossovers, so IF the person I spoke to was correct, there goes that theory.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    I think you can request a MG for any service, however, only the crossovers will get the cert that states MG like Alphonze was talking about. I have heard that some large submitters do just that. They submit 1000 cards, with a MG of 9 say, those that reach the MG get slabbed and they pay x, those that do not reach the MG do not get slabbed and they pay y.

    Theory re established.


    Steve

    Good for you.
Sign In or Register to comment.