Hey guys,
I recently bought my first ever PSA card, an unlimited shining steelix in PSA 10. I paid ~ 180 USD / 155 €, a bit above market price I’d say but as I live in the EU PSA cards end up a bit higher here sometimes. However as I received the card I noticed the damage on the upper edge on the back of the card. Now I feel frustrated about my first PSA card and I’m not sure what do with it. Clearly with that damage that isn’t a PSA 10, not sure if it would qualify for a PSA 9 or if it would grade a PSA 8 now. I looked up the pictures from the ebay auction and noticed that even on the auction pictures it had that damage. It was auctioned off later in the day and I didn’t see the damage on the card even though i checked the pictures multiple times. But I can’t really blame the seller for it as it could be seen in the pictures even if he didn’t said anything about it in the description besides that it is a PSA 10 card.
So what options do I have now?
I know that you can send a card to PSA for review but I don’t know what I could do in my case (buying a PSA 10 card from someone which has damage but graded a 10).
I don’t have a PSA membership, too. Even if I could sent it to PSA the shipping costs from europe would be too expensive for that card as its value is only around 150 USD i think.
Has someone from europe encountered similiar problems? What did you do?
And last but not least would that card now be a PSA 9 oder 8?
Thanks in advance for all responses
Edit: After further inspecting the card i noticed a black dot at the yellow boarder of the front of the card. Not sure if this is damage or something in the PSA case but it really can’t be unseen by me now
Seller should not have to issue a refund and be out shipping costs IMO. PSA 10 was listed, card listed was sold, sold card was received. If you have an issue with the grade PSA gave a card, reach out to PSA for their guarantee. You telling the seller its not a 10 means nothing, he did not put the grade on the card nor had any responsibility to do anything other than what he did.
I agree with this but if the buyer is courteous and asking in a message about it I’ve accepted returns occasionally in the past in similar situations to this. In some cases I have dealt with PSA myself through the grade guarantee and get reimbursed/get the card properly downgraded. In other cases I disagree with the buyer and agree with PSA’s original grade and I just sell it on again.
What should not happen though is to go back to the seller demanding he take it back. As Joe said he did nothing wrong he just simply sold a card that was advertised as graded with PSA’s opinion. I guess unless he called it a PERFECT PRISTINE PSA 10 BGS 10 BLACK LABEL REGRADE?
Yeah I thought about asking the seller and maybe I will. As stated above I see it as my failure because I didn’t look properly at the back pictures. I’m not that kind of person who buys an item and then complains about it. I’ll ask him eventually and if he accepts a return it would be great but otherwise I will not complain.
That sounds great! Do you know if this is possible without a PSA membership?
That card is a perfect example why NOT to encourage collectors, especially new ones, to use binders. Millions of otherwise mint cards have that chipping for that reason.
Plus, this could be a “crackers” 10.
The devils triumvirate:
TAPE
CRACKERS
BINDERS (due to chipping and binder dents)
My cards are all individually sleeved in ultra pro pro-matte sleeves and then stored in ultra pro platinum pages in D-ring binders and I’ve never had any issues or damaged any cards. Having said that, I store my binders lying down, definitely don’t use circle ring binders and if I’m ever taking them out for any reason I’m very careful with them. I can also see why Gary and many others recommend not to use binders for newer collectors or people who like to handle their cards a lot as there are definitely ways you could damage your cards with binders if you don’t know what you’re doing.
As for your question, I believe Gary’s preferred method of storing ungraded cards is to sleeve them, put them in Card Saver I’s and then store them in boxes. He will obviously be able to expand more on the specifics and correct me if I’m wrong.
Also there is some info in the thread about the non-ringed style binders that @smpratte and others like to use. I picked up one of his recommended yellow Pikachu Ultra Pro binders recently and I like it a lot.
Yes, that’s exactly what I do. Easy to pull out and play with…even fling around the room without worry lol. You can lay them out or thumb through them also without worry. They won’t incur any type of binder damage. Finally, they take up a quarter of the room.
