What Does OC Designation Do to Value?

[Zacky1053]

Never bought a non-modern PSA graded card before.

Looking at a card from 1961 Topps (NL Batting Leaders), graded PSA 9 OC.

There's one on eBay (PSA 9, with no qualifiers), unsold (but still at auction BIN) for $329.99.

I can get a PSA 9 OC for about half that. Deal or no deal?

[csmtampa]

There's a reason it's half the price. The OC qualifier means it's off centered. If you were to get the card graded without any qualifiers it would be around a 6. That's why it's a lot cheaper.

[hhmag70]

First you want to decide how much centering means to you. I would grab the best looking NQ 8 available before an OC 9, but that is just me. Sometimes the cards with qualifiers are harder to move, so I would think that the price should be a bit lower than 1/2 of a NQ card in the same grade.

[dthimesch]

There's a reason it's half the price. The OC qualifier means it's off centered. If you were to get the card graded without any qualifiers it would be around a 6. That's why it's a lot cheaper.

This ^^ If a card is graded with a qualifier that means that didn't grade that particular thing. For instance, a card grades a 9 (OC) that means that, by grading the card and not considering the Centering is was a 9. Usually to have a (OC) qualifier the card has to be I believe, 90/10 or 80/20 or worse or if the submitter requests the qualifier. Now if the same card that graded a 9 (OC) has the Centering grade taken into account it may only grade somewhere around a 6

[aggie4ever]

Qulifiers like OC usually lower the grade by 2 by PSA, so at best PSA would grade it a 7 with no qulifiers. I doubt it would be lowered to a 6, unless it was absolutely horrible centering. Now if it was graded by BVG/BGS, then it could grade a 6 or less if the centering is really that bad, since BGS does put so much weight on centering.