Mickey's Sportscards

digicat · June 22, 2006 3:18AM

Anyone do business with Mickey's Sportscards (www.mickeysclubhouse.com)? How's their assessment of raw card condition? I see a few raw 60s and 70s cards that I'm interested in over there, but there's no pictures. I notice he has a lot of PSA graded stuff, so I figure he has a pretty good basis on which to estimate a raw card's grade, but I wanted to check with all you card connoisseurs first.

itzagoner · June 22, 2006 3:55AM

Stand up guy, far as I know....He's purchased from me b4, but I haven't looked at his raw stuff, only PSA graded. Knowledgable & probably a better bet than some Raw Card Shiesters we all know and love

Treetop · June 22, 2006 4:04AM

No worries with Mickey. One of the finest around

MorrellMan · June 22, 2006 4:18AM

Ditto - Mickey's is topnotch. He's even got some imitators who've try to capitalize on the name, but none come close to his service, IMO.

srs1a · June 22, 2006 4:42AM

Agree with the opinions above -- my experience says -- top notch guy, accurately graded raw cards

baseballfanatic · June 22, 2006 4:43AM

top notch. Period.

Griffins · June 22, 2006 4:49AM

Always solid to deal with, wish they were all as good.

zef204 · June 22, 2006 5:22AM

Will he send you a scan? There are very few pics in the year I looked at.

packCollector · June 22, 2006 5:49AM

yup, anything that you are interested in , just email them for a scan. I have had cards do pretty well on their raw although I have not purchased a ton. nm - psa 7 a few times nm/mint to psa 8 and a psa 9 once on a opc bobby orr card.

and the nicest people to deal with

digicat · June 28, 2006 12:44AM

I placed an order of raw cards last week and got them yesterday. Very impressed and I'm about to place another order. The cards I got were either graded accurately or too conservatively, which is always refreshing.

zef204 · June 28, 2006 2:19AM

Any chance you can show a scan and the condition that Mickey's stated? I am looking to order some cards now and I would like to see how yours look.

Stone193 · June 28, 2006 2:25AM

I like Mickey's.

I would go by their return policy on graded and raw:

You may return any single card for a full refund for any reason within five (5) days of receipt. You simply need to send us an e-mail with the following information - offending card (s), date of receipt, and amount of expected refund. We will have your refund processed immediately upon receipt at Mickey's of the return. This policy applies to both graded and non-graded cards. If you wish to return a card which was rejected as altered by PSA, we will handle these occurrences on a case-by-case basis, and may issue a store credit or refund based on the a reasonable standard.

Their complete Return Policy.

One can't ask for much more.

Well...some may - but then again some people expect to find a diamond up a goat's ass.

mike

carew4me · June 28, 2006 2:27AM

One of the few dealers who prices their inventory according to real world prices.

A+

rose14com · June 28, 2006 2:40AM

They were very helpful. I asked for a higher resolution scan of this 69 Topps 4-in-1, and they responded quickly and were just great to chat with. I believe this was listed as NrMt, and I'm quite pleased with it:
Rose 4-in-1

larryallen73 · June 28, 2006 3:12AM

This love fest makes me want to go buy some of Mickey's cards... but I have exceeded my card budget for this decade so far this year.

Carew29 · June 28, 2006 4:05AM

reminds me of the old beer commercial a few years back---"I love you,man"

Buccaneer · June 28, 2006 9:29AM

I have spent nearly 5-figures with Mick and would consider him the closest "cyber-friend" I have in the business. I regret not having done as much this year for I have stopped buying raw cards for my sets. Half of the cards I have in my two sets came from him and when stopped doing the 61, 64 and 65 sets, he bought all of my raws back for a good price. The best thing is not only their integrity and superior customer service but many of his raws are under-graded!

digicat · June 28, 2006 1:33PM

<< <i>Any chance you can show a scan and the condition that Mickey's stated? I am looking to order some cards now and I would like to see how yours look. >>

Here ya go. Big scan, so if you're on dialup, sorry.

Ok. Here's what Mickey's called em.

1972 John Cumberland = ex/mt
1972 Ken Henderson = ex/mt
1971 Skip Pitlock = ex/mt

1972 Jerry Johnson = NMT+
1972 Chris Speier = NM/MT
1971 Frank Reberger = NMT

I went over the cards with a 10x loupe to check corners, edges, etc. For my raw stuff, centering doesn't weigh very heavily, as long as it looks good. The NM+ cards were accurately graded. Of the ex/mt cards, I'd consider some of them to be a lot closer to NM+ than EX/MT. Shoot, I have PSA 8s that don't look as good.

I ordered around 23 1971s and 72s (all MY SF Giants), and they all look like they were recently busted out of packs or vending boxes. A dinged corner on a few of the ex/mts earn them the grade, but none of these cards look like they spent any time in some kid's shoe box, and I love that.

GDM67 · June 28, 2006 2:41PM

<< <i> Of the ex/mt cards, I'd consider some of them to be a lot closer to NM+ than EX/MT. >>

Agreed, especially the Henderson and Cumberland cards.

Mickey's Sportscards

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