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I've Reached 100%!!!

LordThanos1969LordThanos1969 Posts: 58 ✭✭
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It was a Merry X-mas indeed. I completed my registered 1969-70 Topps basketball today! I started about ten months ago with a raw set and no graded cards. I submitted about 15% to 20% of the cards in that set to PSA and bought the rest off of eBay with the exception of two cards that I picked up at the Tristar show this past spring (it was at that show I decided it would be something special to have the whole set graded). Of the ones I submitted, my best returns were the Bradley PSA 8 and the Robertson PSA 8. The most disappointing were two trimmed cards (Havlicek and Wilkens) and the Alcindor PSA 5 and Chamberlain PSA 5. When I was buying these raw, they were all advertised as near mint. That's life before professional grading ;-). Needless to say, I sold off the two PSA 5s to help purchase upgrades. And the trimmed ones got submitted to another grading service that shall remain nameless.

The cards I spent the most on were the Alcindor PSA 7 and the Checklist PSA 9OC. Since my target grade was mainly PSA 7, the only other cards I spent more than $50 for were the Chamberlain PSA 7, the Havlicek PSA 7, and the West PSA 7 (though I may have lucked out on this one and got it for less). If I decide to upgrade some of the other stars I have in PSA 6 (Frazier, Reed, and Hayes come to mind), I may have to break that barrier again.

I'll probably slowly work on upgrading some of the cards in the set when I can find deals on ones I have in PSA 6 and/or PSA 8 OC. With this set, OC is a common problem, so I'm not as upset by it as I would be on most other sets.

Well, it was fun experience, and now I need to finish up the Topps basketball sets for 1976-77 and 1970-71 set. And that will be it for the "Tallboy" cards for me!

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