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What is worth more... PSA 8 o/c or straight PSA 7?

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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    Based on the small sample size I just checked on eBay, PSA 7 goes for higher prices.
  • craig44craig44 Posts: 10,384 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Straight 7

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,220 ✭✭
    I don't even think it's close when it comes to star cards. Did a quick search on THE MICK .... looked at 7 different years ... and the straight "7" was worth a LOT more than the "8" o/c.
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  • Qualifiers, simply put, give a stigma to any card. All should be banished and stick with the straight 1 + -10 thing.
  • Yeah, straight 7. I've never seen a card with which that's not the case.
  • kingbeeswaxkingbeeswax Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭
    I think in most cases a PSA 8 OC is similar in value to a PSA 6
  • lightningboylightningboy Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭
    Qualifiers, simply put, give a stigma to any card

    That really is what it amounts to. It really doesn't make sense when you have a card that is an 8 in all respects and has centering of 71/29 at its worst. It just falls outside the leeway given to otherwise 8 cards and yet it sells less than a 7 in all respects with the same centering.
  • I would take the straight 7 over an 8 with qualifiers.
  • miwlvrnmiwlvrn Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: kingbeeswax

    I think in most cases a PSA 8 OC is similar in value to a PSA 6




    I believe that this is correct, that an 8 OC sells for roughly the same as a PSA 6, but I've noticed that 9 OC can often enough sell for a bit higher price than a straight 7.



  • EstilEstil Posts: 6,863 ✭✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: kingbeeswax

    I think in most cases a PSA 8 OC is similar in value to a PSA 6




    Yeah I always thought the general guideline is that a qualified card is valued two grades lower than a regular non qualified, just like the example above. Still, you know that cliche about "buy the card, not the holder"? Well, if that's true, then what would be wrong with (on a case by case basis of course) a 9 where the qualifier is barely noticeable versus a straight 7? Isn't it likely the 9 will actually have better eye appeal?
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