u/TheOneWhoDrowned

I want to start by saying I don’t grade cards often, in fact this is the only card I’ve ever graded. I pulled this card back around OP09, and ended up sending it in for grading mainly just to protect and authenticate it. It came back a 9 and while I was slightly bummed it didn’t get a 10 I wasn’t too worried since I wasn’t really intending to sell. At the time the price between a 9 & 10 was so negligible I thought about selling this and upgrading to a 10, but decided against it because this was the copy I pulled and it had sentiment. Ever since then I have constantly had people tell me I should crack and resub or send it to Beckett for atleast a guarantee 9.5, this is where I’m looking for help from this sub. Yet again I’m no grading expert, and funny enough at initial glance I didn’t thing the centering on this copy was too bad. I can definitely say even to me now I would say it is a noticeably off center copy.

So here are my questions for the sub.

1. ⁠Do you think this copy is worth cracking at all, or just leave it as a 9 atleast sealed and protected?
2. ⁠If I were to resubmit for grading (as a raw card, not sent in slab) should I bother retrying with PSA, or do you think an almost certain 9.5 would be the better choice?

I want to start by saying I don’t grade cards often, in fact this is the only card I’ve ever graded. I pulled this card back around OP09, and ended up sending it in for grading mainly just to protect and authenticate it. It came back a 9 and while I was slightly bummed it didn’t get a 10 I wasn’t too worried since I wasn’t really intending to sell. At the time the price between a 9 & 10 was so negligible I thought about selling this and upgrading to a 10, but decided against it because this was the copy I pulled and it had sentiment. Ever since then I have constantly had people tell me I should crack and resub or send it to Beckett for atleast a guarantee 9.5, this is where I’m looking for help from this sub. Yet again I’m no grading expert, and funny enough at initial glance I didn’t thing the centering on this copy was too bad. I can definitely say even to me now I would say it is a noticeably off center copy.

So here are my questions for the sub.

1. Do you think this copy is worth cracking at all, or just leave it as a 9 atleast sealed and protected?

2. If I were to resubmit for grading (as a raw card, not sent in slab) should I bother retrying with PSA, or do you think an almost certain 9.5 would be the better choice?

Thank you all in advance

For these it’s always hard to call which is the coolest, but I’ll give it to manga on this one.

Buggy is one of my favorite characters and I honestly love all all 3 of these for different reasons!