Grading question... PLEASE HELP!!!!

JTF6Agent

When should you grade a card and what cards should you grade? Should you ever grade commons? Or, just SP, #'d and rookies. Do you ever grade GU stuff? Thanx for any info. If anybody wants to go in on some grading LMK. I think it's cheaper. The more cards you have graded the less you pay. I would love to send some of mine.

JoeBenson

Yep, I wanna get my NEW MJ Rookie graded, and maybe a couple others as well

I would be down with that idea!

nimbus2k

I'm actaully thinking about getting some cards graded. I bought a ton of Kobe rookies on eBay, lsot were graded by other no name grading companies. Was thinking about breaking the casing and sending them to either BGS or PSA, not sure yet because i never got cards graded.

Thing is though, I'm too scared to send them through mail and getting a card graded at a show costs about $30.00. maybe i will get cards graded at shows for my expensive cards (like my 96-97 kobe e-x2000 graded gem mint by all star grading)

JoeBenson, How will you sleep at night knowing that your Jordan rookie is somewhere out there in the mail? LOL

JoeBenson

lol, it would be VERY TOUGH...i will just pray and hope all goes well

tuneman

JTF6- My advise to you is to SLOW DOWN. You need to do a lot of research and learn a little about grading before you do anything.

First question to ask; Why would i get a card graded?
Is it to increase the value? Not always, some people do it to certify that the card is real, as per PSA or BGS etc.

Also Ask who should i use to grade my cards?
not all grading companies are the same. Most these days are plain garbage and if you use the wrong company to grade your card you will actually loose money. Also of the BIG 3 each is know for a specific type of card.

You need to do a lot or research like learn how grades are determined. Why is a mint card mint and what is o/c or ms, or ST or PD??

You need to learn to be abe to tell if a card is gradable or your just sending a card into waste money and have someone tell you its a '6' and never should have been sent in , in the first place.

However-Generally people send cards in to increase their value for resale. Personally i think its a waste to send a new card in if it wont grade 10, in some cases 9-BUT its a total waste of money to send a new card in and have it graded 8 or 9 with qualifiers.

I suggest you do some research and learn the tricks, like some people will ONLY get cards graded at shows as they believe the companies tend to give better grades then-so the $30.00 is worth it


Hope some of this helped

tuneman

coachvinny

i am a member of psa. if you ever want to get
cards graded, lmk. pugsley got his battier rc
graded through me a couple months back.

i'll also "pregrade" your cards. i've gotten
pretty accurate results doing this for myself and
others on cu. lmk.

i use psa only though.

JTF6Agent

Thanks for the response. Everybodys input was very helpful. That's why I love this board.