So read online that PSA is said to be updating their centering criteria to 55-45 instead of being 60-40 - can anyone confirm on this?
Their grading standards page says 55-45 to 60-40 (approximately) which annoyingly leaves some ambiguity.
Just curious as I have this stunning Karp with PSA and its absolutely gem just a tad off centre.
Will send to BGS if PSA shaft me - but would be cool to get a 10.
Hope not as that means any modern English release will never see a 10 again.
Or is it just me that opens the wonkiest cards?
I’d agree with that. S&V sets are awful on centering (like PSA 8 centering). Any hit I have received always are off and have dings.
I have no idea if they changed it, but I just got up charged yesterday on a submission cause of a few 10s and I was shocked to see that one of my cards became a PSA 10 (was originally cgc 9) since the centering is is left heavy while slightly rotated.
In the end I still think grading is subjective to the grader. I’ll take the 10 though 
Your Karp pictured has way better centering for example.
Yea i have 10s with the same, if not worse, centering than this karp. Id send it.
I got shafted on my recent PSA return. Vast majority of Japanese modern got 9s, I believe due to centering
Just had the same thing happen as well.
All pre 9xxx certs are now invalid
Where did you read that they’re updating the standards? Unless it was a PSA announcement idk how much weight it can have
I think they’ve been doing this unofficially for a long time anyway. I’ve gotten a lot of 9s on flawless cards just because they’re a bit off on centering (but within 60-40).
Newsletter but I can’t find it sadly
Sounds like it’s just hit and miss and stupidly depends on the grader and if they have gotten laid that week. Bgs are pretty bad at centering too and it should be the one consistent thing lol.
Ah well it doesn’t effect me I never use PSA. Would be interesting to see people flip out though
Sadly hit the 9, gotta be the centering - still pretty happy with the grade but certainly going to send it to BGS as it’s so darn clean. Paid $400 for it so can’t complain 
I’ve had mint cards with very similar top/bottom centering get hit with a 9 grade for the past few years, so if they indeed are now grading at 55/45, it’s nothing new in the past year or so.
I’m curious though if your order is being shipped back from NJ, or Cali?
I had 6 orders arrive in Cali all in the same box at the same submission tier ($13.99 TCG Bulk), yet 5 of the 6 were graded in Cali and did great, but one of the orders got graded in NJ and got wrecked. All Japanese eSeries E1-E5 non-holos and all from the same original source.
This was in Cali, at least that is where they were shipped.
Just piling on that I’ve had some pretty brutal returns lately from PSA. I used to know what to expect for over a decade, but these last results are tough. A few that really stand out to me were this fan club porygon:
This fan club Eevee:
This Scramble Pikachu. I couldn’t find an indent anywhere.
Dang!! Those are super rough grades. Guess your graded just got dumped 
One submission or multiple?
