Has your PSA 10 Gem rate for modern bulk submissions changed dramatically this year?

MavsRChamps · 11-11-2025, 10:44 PM

Goodness. Just had a TERRIBLE grading order pop for non-sports, practically all 2011 Topps American Pie Cards (besides 1 card). Mind you I separated these 2011 Topps American Pie cards into 2 batches basically.

My 1st batch - Roughly 66% GEM Rate from about 50 cards. Non Gems were ALL 9's ... After that order, I knew I was lucky having a good grader tbh but expected nothing like the below order.

I graded 29 cards. Mind you - I was expected about 50% Gem Rate. These cards aren't expensive. They're $1 cards raw (besides a few of them) - I collect the set but if I were to sell, I'd lose money on everything but PSA 10's.

Of the 29 cards - ZERO 10's, 13 9's, 16 8's ... Absolutely absurd. These were picked through - Since I had 4 complete sets, plus others I pulled from.

Again 1st order I was fortunate - I got a grader that overgraded the cards, and even gave me 9/10's on Super condition sensitive Spotlight cards which didn't really deserve them. But this order is so much in the other direction I literally laughed when I saw grades. How can a 29 card Modern order have no 10's? How is this not triggering a review by PSA? Not even considering I picked through these cards and sent Gem worthy ones, and my last very similar order from a month ago had mostly 10's?

11-11-2025, 10:44 PM	#11
MavsRChamps Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cherry Hill, NJ Posts: 3,094 purple3252	Goodness. Just had a TERRIBLE grading order pop for non-sports, practically all 2011 Topps American Pie Cards (besides 1 card). Mind you I separated these 2011 Topps American Pie cards into 2 batches basically. My 1st batch - Roughly 66% GEM Rate from about 50 cards. Non Gems were ALL 9's ... After that order, I knew I was lucky having a good grader tbh but expected nothing like the below order. I graded 29 cards. Mind you - I was expected about 50% Gem Rate. These cards aren't expensive. They're $1 cards raw (besides a few of them) - I collect the set but if I were to sell, I'd lose money on everything but PSA 10's. Of the 29 cards - ZERO 10's, 13 9's, 16 8's ... Absolutely absurd. These were picked through - Since I had 4 complete sets, plus others I pulled from. Again 1st order I was fortunate - I got a grader that overgraded the cards, and even gave me 9/10's on Super condition sensitive Spotlight cards which didn't really deserve them. But this order is so much in the other direction I literally laughed when I saw grades. How can a 29 card Modern order have no 10's? How is this not triggering a review by PSA? Not even considering I picked through these cards and sent Gem worthy ones, and my last very similar order from a month ago had mostly 10's? Last edited by MavsRChamps; 11-11-2025 at 10:47 PM.