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If a PSA 9 sells for $325 (pop 16) what would you pay for an 8.5?

artistlostartistlost Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭
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The card in question has a POP report as follows...

1 - PSA 10
16 - PSA 9
1 - PSA 8.5
and a ton of 8s

Two PSA 9s just sold for $330 and $325 this past weekend one day apart (I don't know their past history and if this is an increas). I have a shot to buy the one and only PSA 8.5 but wondered what you think a fair price would be for it. It was sold last year for $151ish and is back on the block.

here it is

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Your thoughts?
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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    was there a particular reason you passed on both PSA 9's?

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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    I would say around $150 is a fair price for that card.....
  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    Mathew

    I know the history, but honestly I would think an 8 or 8.5 should be in the $50-80 range.
    I don't see the demand.
    It's really about how bad do you want it.

    JMHO
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  • artistlostartistlost Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭


    << <i>was there a particular reason you passed on both PSA 9's? >>



    I passed on the one to see where it ended up so that I could bid on the second. Then I was outbid by 86 cents. Should have watched the auction end.

    Oh well.
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  • MorgothMorgoth Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭
    20 to 40% of the difference in the price between a 8 and a 9 added to the price of the PSA 8.
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  • gameusedhoopgameusedhoop Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭✭
    For that card I would base it on an 8 price, not the 9 price. I'd add about 20% to the going 8 price and pay NO higher than that, that is if I HAD to have the 8.5. That card should never get a 9, and truthfully I've seen better 8s.
  • artistlostartistlost Posts: 2,242 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Mathew

    I know the history, but honestly I would think an 8 or 8.5 should be in the $50-80 range.
    I don't see the demand.
    It's really about how bad do you want it.

    JMHO >>



    Hey Jim,

    I agree that the 8.5 should be lower too. 8s sell for around $30. I think I will wait for the next 9.

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  • diamondmandiamondman Posts: 2,020
    Considering that a PSA 8 sold last week for 24.97 and 9's go in the 320-330 range.
    I would say 80-115 would be a fair price, the 8.5 looks great on the front, but the only reason I would pay more than 115 , would be to resubmit it for review to bump to a 9 or crack it out and resub and hope for a 9, the L/R centering is probably why it got an 8.5 instead of a 9.

    I would be a cheapskate and buy a really nice looking 8 for 20-40 bucks but that's me. if it was an older card 1969 or earlier, I could see an 8.5 bringing 160 to 200, but with it being a modern card 1980 to present, i would wait for more to be graded. out of the 99 that have been graded 52-8's, 1-8.5, 16-9's, 2-10's, so it seems to be popular card to be graded out of the 1980 set and not a real difficult card to get an 8 or higher.

    just my 2 cents.
  • mexpo75mexpo75 Posts: 1,938 ✭✭✭✭
    20 to 40% of the difference in the price between a 8 and a 9 added to the price of the PSA 8.

    So is this a good rule of thumb for cards in fairly high demand ( like vintage HOFers) by vintage I mean pre 1970.
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  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,564 ✭✭✭✭✭
    25% more than an 8 for me too. Price of 9 is irrelevant.
    Mike
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  • wallst32wallst32 Posts: 513 ✭✭
    I would just be patient and wait for the 9 to go down in price. Perfect example of a card that will drop like a rock once the handful of I gotta have it any price crowd is satisfied. If you can't stand having that hole in your collection just buy an 8 for the time being.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    Why don't you just buy an oc 10 for $2,000? image

    Really?
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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Another "REALLY?" Sometimes, I just wish certain things wouldn't happen.
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    Another "REALLY?" Sometimes, I just wish certain things wouldn't happen.
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,616 ✭✭✭✭
    LOL. The seller's name says it all!
    "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."
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    That 8.5 is another card that makes me wish that my original
    hopes for the .5 system would have been correct.

    ...While PSA graders will evaluate all of the attributes possessed by a card in order to determine if the card may be eligible, there will be a clear focus on centering...

    The remainig definition of the standard......

    Generally speaking, a card must exhibit centering that is 5-10% better, at minimum, than the lowest % allowed within a particular grade.

    It is important to note that there may be cases where the overall strength of the card, such as the quality of the corners and print, will give the card the edge it needs despite the fact that it may exhibit only marginal centering for the grade. This is especially true for cards that find themselves within the bottom half of the PSA 1-10 scale.


    .....certainly gives more than enough leeway to call the subject card
    an "8.5," but that does not mean the centering is not distracting.

    LOTS of 8s are prolly just as nice AND centered.










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