any word on november grading special?

greggyp10 · October 26, 2007 2:27AM

Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about the november grading special?? I would assume it would be basketball but thats just a guess....well any thoughts would be appreciated!

alifaxwa2 · October 26, 2007 2:39AM

wont know until the 31st/1st

SKINSFAN · October 26, 2007 5:29AM

They are calling it the trick or treat special will your grades be done this year or next

TRICK OR TREAT

BillsGridironGreats · October 26, 2007 6:07AM

That's an easy one...... Next year!

bifff257 · October 26, 2007 6:32AM

<< I would assume it would be basketball but thats just a guess. >>

That works for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rangerman · October 26, 2007 6:50AM

BASEBALL ---------BASEBALL--------------WORKS FOR ME

KalineFan · October 26, 2007 7:15AM

$5 per card....any sport.....no minimum

(WISHFUL THINKING!)

glossycrazy · October 26, 2007 8:34AM

I'm for the $5 special for any card any year! I also have some supersized stuff but at $15 a crack that is a little too hefty!! I could see $12 each on those!!
Paul

Tunispaul · October 26, 2007 9:05AM

Last year in November it was a $5 special. It included modern cards but I don't know how far back it went. I have got my fingers crossed for the same, again.

GOODLIEU · October 26, 2007 10:01AM

How about they forgo a Grading Special this time around catch up on whatever specials from as far back as June that are still sitting on their shelves waiting to be graded and come Jan 1 2008 actually implement a system that will properly grade "Specials" in the order in which they are received and return them to us collectors in a reasonable amount of time. Now that would be a "Special" from PSA we all could live with.

greggyp10 · October 26, 2007 10:26AM

I just guessed basketball cuz the NBA is getting ready to start up---the preseason games are on this week so I figured they might have like a "tip off" special or something like they did the kickoff football special. the $5 per card would be nice tho....i have some non sports cards i need to get graded so hopefully those would be included!!

Carew29 · October 26, 2007 11:45AM

Sorry--thats 4 months behind as well!!!!!!!!!!!!

hankcaddy · October 26, 2007 9:13PM

<< $5 per card....any sport.....no minimum

(WISHFUL THINKING!) >>

KalineFan · October 27, 2007 7:23AM

Hey, as long as they grade em correctly and do it cheaply, I would not complain.

$5 per card even as opposed to $6 per card over several hundred cards = several hundred dollars!

Just my Humble opinion!

Tony

glossycrazy · October 28, 2007 2:25PM

I bet it will be a Hoops special so they can get caught up! When the $5 specials are taking 3-4 months and the 5 day/$13 specials are taking 10 days its time to slow down the subs by offering something that is not going to bring in a skillion subs!
Paul

KalineFan · October 29, 2007 8:33AM

glossycrazy...........

what is your personal address? I was going to send some muscle over
to your house for that comment!

glossycrazy · October 29, 2007 9:51AM

Kaline- I guess you are waiting on a sub from long ago or want a better special! I could use a $5 special for some '71 baseball I have but that won't be happening until Spring Training rolls around.. Hope things turn out for you! And last but not least.. if they grade them accurately I don't mind waiting... and that means 3-4 months. Check out this sub: 620325/ Zip: 56537... All of these cards came straight from packs and were the nicest I have sent in... ever.. Only touched a couple of times with sharp corners and no surface problems!! With 4 registry sets of these I know psa 9's and 10's when I see them. There were a few that were definitely 10's!!! Not a single 10 plus a bunch of 4's and 5's. Either they cracked on the way to California or the GRADER OF DEATH got ahold of them!!! Not graded accurately in my book so many will be heading back under a $5 special unless they are cracked... Just my humble rumblings!
Paul

WeekendHacker · October 30, 2007 2:19PM

Not sure those folks still waiting on the June special are looking forward to a new month.

twiley · October 30, 2007 3:20PM

The past 2 months have been the same $5 football special. When they continued it into this month with no real change I was dissapointed. I have 100s of Baseball cards waiting to be graded. However I am leary about submitting. Did the consitancy issue ever clear up and resolve? I dont feel like dumping $300-$600 and getting lower grades then I should again...

fandango · October 31, 2007 5:23AM

<< Kaline- I guess you are waiting on a sub from long ago or want a better special! I could use a $5 special for some '71 baseball I have but that won't be happening until Spring Training rolls around.. Hope things turn out for you! And last but not least.. if they grade them accurately I don't mind waiting... and that means 3-4 months. Check out this sub: 620325/ Zip: 56537... All of these cards came straight from packs and were the nicest I have sent in... ever.. Only touched a couple of times with sharp corners and no surface problems!! With 4 registry sets of these I know psa 9's and 10's when I see them. There were a few that were definitely 10's!!! Not a single 10 plus a bunch of 4's and 5's. Either they cracked on the way to California or the GRADER OF DEATH got ahold of them!!! Not graded accurately in my book so many will be heading back under a $5 special unless they are cracked... Just my humble rumblings!
Paul >>

most probably surface wrinkle you missed....PSA does not assign a 5 unless they see something to merit this....

what is worse? being like BGS and giving everything a 9.5, or being very strict and finding that hidden surface wrinkle and giving a card an accurate (yet tuff) 5?

to me the answer is easy....

Ichiro51fan · October 31, 2007 7:50AM

<< Kaline- I guess you are waiting on a sub from long ago or want a better special! I could use a $5 special for some '71 baseball I have but that won't be happening until Spring Training rolls around.. Hope things turn out for you! And last but not least.. if they grade them accurately I don't mind waiting... and that means 3-4 months. Check out this sub: 620325/ Zip: 56537... All of these cards came straight from packs and were the nicest I have sent in... ever.. Only touched a couple of times with sharp corners and no surface problems!! With 4 registry sets of these I know psa 9's and 10's when I see them. There were a few that were definitely 10's!!! Not a single 10 plus a bunch of 4's and 5's. Either they cracked on the way to California or the GRADER OF DEATH got ahold of them!!! Not graded accurately in my book so many will be heading back under a $5 special unless they are cracked... Just my humble rumblings!
Paul >>

Yeah, similar thing happened to me a few months back. Sent in about 130 cards... expecting 10's on a decent portion of my 80's stuff and only ended up with four 10's. The most obvious under-grading came with my ~20 84 Donruss cards. Only got 2 10's and was expecting at least 10 on the conservative side. Sure, I know you're thinking I'm one of those guys who just doesn't know how to pre-screen cards for grading, but that's not exactly true, especially when it comes to 84 Donruss. My previous subs on 84D netted me between 50-65% 10's, and I used the same criteria (if not tougher) for this particular sub. A prime indication that these were undergraded would be the price that my Keith Hernandez PSA-9 went for on ebay a few weeks ago. It went for over $40 while the last one on ebay went for nearly half that. Apparently, several bidders agreed that this card had a good shot at a 10 and the winner will most likely crack and resub and make a fortune off of it. Sure, I could have tried this myself, but I am quickly losing patience with this PSA consistancy issue. I agree that they should continue to be tough... but also be fair and consistant, and I'm just not seeing that with recent subs.

pswebauctions · October 31, 2007 9:18AM

I sent in a 20 card modern football sub in late September. Got it back quickly - middle of October. The grades were just about where I expected. I was expecting about or 6 or so PSA 10's, about 12 or PSA 9's and 1-2 PSA 8's.

I got 8 - 10s, 11 - 9's and 1 - 8.

Either I did not get the "grader of death" - which many of us did during the June special - or they have gotten the grading issues somewhat resolved.

Just sent another 20 card sub before the end of the month. Expecting 9's and 10's in this submission. We'll see what happens.

greggyp10 · October 31, 2007 9:33AM

I did find out for sure that the Nov/Dec grading special is all Sport and Non-Sport cards dated 1972 and later valued under 100 (dont quote me on the $100). $5 each with a minimum of 10 cards (gold and plat. members only of course!)

Im 100% certain about everything except for the declared value of $100.

SportsModerator2 · October 31, 2007 9:58AM

<< I did find out for sure that the Nov/Dec grading special is all Sport and Non-Sport cards dated 1972 and later valued under 100 (dont quote me on the $100). $5 each with a minimum of 10 cards (gold and plat. members only of course!)

Im 100% certain about everything except for the declared value of $100. >>

So close.....the special is now on the site...

LINK

Carol

mets · October 31, 2007 10:20AM

<< *Autographed cards from the manufacturer from 1998 to present are allowed on this special. >>

Should that be 1998 to 2000?

SportsModerator2 · October 31, 2007 10:26AM

<< 

<< *Autographed cards from the manufacturer from 1998 to present are allowed on this special. >>

Should that be 1998 to 2000?

>>

You're right. It's the standard blurb about autographed cards but someone will say they didn't understand.

any word on november grading special?

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