Depends on the card man. I prefer bgs over psa. A lot of cards I go after can be condition sensitive so finding a psa 10/ bgs 9.5 may be unlikely. Like the lebron James bowman gold rc. Finding one that is bgs 9/ psa 9 or higher is nearly impossible. Anyways, normally I won't buy anything lower than a bgs 9/ psa 9. This is for the investor wanting to buy already graded cards. Using Market Movers I compared the difference in price changes of a PSA 9 vs PSA 10 for Jack Hughes - a player who's current price is undervalued in my opinion. I just acquired a PSA 9 for $111.75 - the latest average price is $107. His trend is upward. A 9 should be more than raw, but right now there are a lot of modern cards where the price is the same. I think people believe the 9 should be more, so they are just buying ungraded on EBay without first checking the 9 prices. Check both on cards you are looking to get graded to make sure it makes sense to grade right now. Crazy times. Thank you! I sent in a 1961 Golden Press Eddie Collins that was in a PSA 9 holder. It was worth at the time between $150-200. Came back a PSA 10 which at the time was worth $1200. It became a pop 2. Now there are 6 and worth much less. Should have sold it. PSA 9 MINT 2022 Pokemon Brilliant Stars CHARIZARD VSTAR #174 Secret [eBay] $74.00: Report It: 2023-12-07: Pokémon TCG Charizard VSTAR Sword & Shield: Brilliant Stars 174/172 Secret PSA 9 174/172 [eBay] $71.00: Report It: 2023-12-04: PSA 9 MINT Charizard VStar BRILLIANT STARS #174 SECRET RARE Pokemon Card #174 [eBay] Is it worth to buy PSA 9 cards? I was looking on ebay for psa graded 1st edition pokemon cards and I have a very limited budget, I found a psa 10 slowbro from the fossil set. But I also found a psa 9 feraligatr holo (neo genesis) and a tyranitar holo (neo discovery). I agree, the whole thing with buying PSA 10 cards in my opinion is for 2 things- err 3 things #1-You are seriously competing in the registry. #2-It is a 1 of 1 and your hoping to make a profit on it. #3-You got a lot of expendable cash and wont miss the money regardless and you want the *Best*. waxpack Posts: 547. Worth it. Buying a pre-built lower from PSA usually nets you Magpul furniture and a standard trigger. A forged lower is a forged lower, nothing to write home about, but Magpul is solid and the trigger can easily be upgraded. The uppers are where you will have more QC issues but PSA has gotten better by leaps and bounds in the past few years so The table below lays out the full technical breakdown, but the biggest discrepancy between the two machines is easily the GPU. The Xbox Series S sports an AMD RDNA 2, 4 teraflops, 1.6 GHz, which Is PSA 9 worth collecting? Aug 20, 2021 Generally PSA 9's are valued the same or sometimes slightly higher than raw cards, but if you have been buying raw cards on eBay especially for non-brand-new sets PSA 9's are far better than the NM/Mint cards you can expect to receive. S9xg.