bulk submissions and declared value

gregmo32

I have submitted thousands of cards to PSA, but have not done so for at least five years.
In the past, if I submitted a large bulk order with hundreds of cards, I did not pay much attention
To the declared value limit. For example, if I sent 400 cards at $5 each, I would include a NM-MT
1980 Magic-Bird RC, and never had any problems. does anyone have any experience where cards were returned, or were undergraded as a result of this? Especially in situations where an 8 might be $200 card but a 7 is a $75 card,.it seems subjective.

What I don't want is for the grader to assume the higher dollar cards must be lower grades if they were submitted in this manner.

Thoughts?

JJacks

I am 99.9% sure that graders don't see and wouldn't care anyways about declared value.

It really is just if that Magic-Bird card got ruined or lost or whatever, you'd only get $5 back.

JJacks

gregmo32

I forgot to mention, the submission guidelines state ” for cards with declared value under $100.”
This is why I included the example of 7 vs 8.

thehallmark

It has more to do with insurance, but that said, PSA also doesn't want you to cheat on the submission level. As we've learned in other threads, if you send in a big card like Bird/Magic RC and you happen to score a 10, there's a pretty good chance you'll get an email from them stating the card was submitted incorrectly and they could ding you some $$ for higher submission level and for added insurance on declared value.