[KepCards]

Originally Posted by Vegemight

If PSA has adjusted their grading criteria that should be clearly, and honestly, communicated to collectors.

It will be interesting to see, if they have indeed toughened their grading, whether some people now turn to, or return to BGS?

Prior to the alleged change if you had a card that you were confident would grade Gem, you were faced with choosing between sending to BGS for a possible 9.5, or send to PSA for a possible 10.

Unless you had money to burn, or were very confident in assessing the condition of your cards, you likely wouldn't send a largish order to BGS in the hope of getting a couple of 10s, and since PSA 10s were getting higher prices (in some cases much higher) than BGS 9.5s we can understand why PSA was flooded with orders.

If a higher proportion of cards that would meet the criteria of a BGS 9.5 are now going to get a PSA 9, will we see a realignment of the assessment of relative value?

Will a BGS 10 and a PSA 10 move towards having the same value, or will we see a narrowing of the difference between a PSA 10 and a BGS 9.5, and a return to the days when these two were considered interchangeable?

Perhaps, as noted above, we'll have 'new PSA' and 'old PSA' prices?

More ammunition for the 'grading is a scam' believers I suspect.

You can't come out and SAY you have changed your guidelines, because that would fly in the face of how they used to grade...it would just cause too much confusion about when a card was graded etc...