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Crossgrade
Also known as: cross-grade, switching graders
Crossgrading is the practice of cracking a card out of one grading company's slab and resubmitting it to a different grading company. Collectors crossgrade for several reasons: to obtain a more widely recognized grade (e.g., from SGC to PSA), to potentially receive a higher numeric grade, or to get a BGS grade (which some collectors prefer for sub-grades). Crossgrading carries risk — a card graded PSA 9 might come back BGS 8.5 from Beckett due to different standards.
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