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How much does grade matter?
Random thought here as I just bought the card pictured. On cards that are more sought after and/or more rare does having a copy in a lower grade matter that much? Obviously, I’d rather have it in a PSA 9 or 10. On a card like this that checks a lot of the boxes (rookie, gold, low numbered, popular product) I think the card itself holds a lot of value and will be more desired. For example, I think a Select /99 that is a PSA 8 hurts it a lot more than a PSA 8 that is /10. When its a card like this, I think its more about the card and its rarity than the actual grade. Let me know what you think and if I’m making sense!
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I understand what you’re saying. I think it depends on how you interpret the question. On super low numbered/rare cards, unless it’s a 10, it doesn’t matter too much because like you said the card itself is what’s rare. Look at some 1/1’s, some are 7’s and 8’s and that doesn’t impact the value of the card at all, because the card itself is what’s more valuable. With any other card though, there will obviously be a premium on 10’s and that is always going to be inevitable. If you look at a base insert, refractors, silvers, etc, the print run is so high that there needs to be some discrepancy in price between a raw and PSA 10. If there were 1,000 of a certain card printed, and there’s only 25 10’s but 200 9’s, I think the 10 should hold a much higher premium. What it does is add another level of rarity to a card that might not be that rare in the first place. I think the less rare the card is, the more impact a 10 will have on the card
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I totally agree! It was a little tough to explain my thought to make it makes sense but I think we are on the same page. I think it also changes when the card may be short printed but is also a lower end and not sought after set. For example, if its an Absolute rookie gold /10 PSA 8. I think that hurts it because people are not really hunting those and that card does not draw as much interest as Select or Prizm for example.
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Here is to your original point. I bought a Justin Jefferson Select Field Level Gold Dragon Scale /10 Raw. I graded it myself and it got a PSA 10. The only 2 sales on PSA 10’s were $510 and $520, but the only sale on a PSA 9 was $456. I think it speaks to the idea that on super low numbered, highly sought after cards, there is much less of a premium on PSA 10s. There obviously still is a premium, but we don’t see that huge multiplier from PSA 9s.
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Yep, great example! Cards short printed like that do not pop up all of the time so the person who bought the PSA 9 may have paid strong because its not guaranteed another /10 will pop up. That card is a beauty btw.
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