Does this card deserve a 9? (corner defect)

General
1

Hi everyone,

I recently picked up this beautiful PSA 9 Tyranitar holo from eBay. The only noticeable flaw, other than a little speck of whitening on the top right corner, is a small “dog ear” bend on the top left corner. Personally, I’m fine with it, but I don’t think I’ve seen a 9 with this type of flaw, and I’ve always heard that any sort of bend or crease, no matter now small, knocks cards to a 7 at best. Do you all think this is a passable 9 or could this be one of those dreaded grading oversights?

2

Unfortunately, no.

1 Like
3

Unfortunately, you would typically see that knock the grade down to a 6. It’s impossible to know whether this was overlooked by the grader, or even damaged during the encapsulation process.

4 Likes
4

Oh darn, I was afraid of that. Well, I need to submit some stuff to PSA anyway, so I guess I’ll send this in too.

Is my best option to use the PSA guarantee? Never used them before.

5

I don’t think it deserves a 9 in that condition either, but I do think it could be saved by the ‘flattening between two heavy glass sheets’ method (© @garyis2000 ). Of course you’d have to crack it out carefully beforehand.

1 Like
6

I’ve got 2 cards with this type of corner damage, noticeably less damage actually, and both are 6’s fwiw.

1 Like
7

This actually works for this type of bend?

8

No it does not. You can’t get rid of a crease in paper.

9

Out of curiosity, I just creased a random old Energy card of mine, put between two thick metal sheets and then in a vise, which I tightened as much as I could. Left it there for about 2 minutes. Creasing was significantly reduced, but not completely gone.
But I didn’t give it much time, my metal sheets weren’t perfectly flat and OP’s crease seems way smaller than the one I produced. So I wouldn’t categorically say that this small crease is a lost case. Nevertheless the risk and the work might not be worth it in the end. I certainly won’t advertise my garage method for a 1k card, it’d need a lot of refinement.

This is how Ive done it (click if interested)

Before:

After:

Materials used:

10

bends can get saved by these methods but creases will always leave some sort of mark even when the cards are perfectly flat otherwise.

As for this card, it should not have gotten a 9. What I find interesting as that this card does not have the 2xxx cert, which you would obviously expect with these kinds of grades.

1 Like
11

Yea, if this was a 2xxx cert I would say its a 9, but to be in a 4xxx cert case this is clearly a misgrade

1 Like
12

I thought 4xxxx cert numbers were superior grades

1 Like
13

Wait is the 2xxxx cert vs 4xxxx cert numbers seriously that big of a difference? Pretty sure if anyone here prior to the 4xxxx coming out got a card like this as a PSA 9, it would be considered unacceptable. I don’t think I have ever gotten a PSA 7-9 that’s creased.

14

NOOOO!

1 Like
15

Obviously

16

Definitely not… I wouldn’t purchase that card / treat that card as a 9.

17

https://media.giphy.com/media/69iAVQekQ4XcnVr6E9/source.gif

18

Unfortunately I bought it like this. I got it at a decent discount thinking this flaw was acceptable, if just barely, for a 9 since the rest of the card looks really good. Learned my lesson.

19

1 Like
20

#troll

2 Likes