Are there 'best pracitces' for submitting?

EchoCanyon

Is it better to grade 10 of the same year together? (Say 10 1972 or 10 1973)

Or break it up and do 2-3 from one year, 2-3 from another, etc.(2 -72's, 3-73's, 2-74's, 3-75's, etc?)

Thoughts?

storm888

I suspect it makes no difference.

Good/Bad results/grades would NOT prove that it made a difference, either.

envoy98

I don't know that it matters for your end results, it does seem to make a difference in turnaround times however.

When I've sent in a stack of "vintage" mixed with modern, it's usually taken longer than when they have been separated.

I find the cards are graded consistently within years most times, but that sometimes they aren't so consistent across years.

SportsItUpCards

I think its better to send the same year all at the same time. Not to sure why, but I think your chances are better that way

Actualy, thinking about it makes me think that maybe they would give a certain year card that is not so condition sensitive, because they compared it to a sensative set or something like that. I think its better one year at a time.

Giovanni

Charlie9

I have always seperated cards by year and sport however the last sub I did I decided to "create a sub experience" more for me rather than the reviewer but I figured maybe there might be a benefit for them too. I switched up every 4 or 5 cards by going from vintage to modern, or baseball to hockey to golf, etc.. The main reason was that I plan to go without looking at grade results until the PSA shipment is in-hand and I can do a "live break" here on the boards. It's more fun when you don't know what card, year, or sport is coming up next so I'm excited to try it this way. I also think it's got to be more fun for the reviewer to deal with a sub that offers variety instead of a bulk order of 200 1978 Topps Baseball or something like that. Who knows, maybe it'd be annoying to them but the key is for me to have a good time opening up that PSA box not knowing what's next.

I also arranged the cards so some key cards that I thought were borderline between an 8/9 followed 4 or 5 cards that were low end to solid 8 candidates in hopes of getting that extra push towards a 9 for the key card. Maybe that's thinking too much but at least it was a bit more fun to put this sub together than having everything organized by sport, year, and brand. My 2 cents...

leadoff4

From my experience, do not send in a bunch of the same year. I think the grades suffer.

NYYanks23

I have only sent in 3 orders, one was my free sub, and the two others were specials. I have always sent in different sports and years, and to be totally honest I don't think it made a difference. I am lucky in that so far (knock on wood), my grades for the most part have been pretty fair. I also have not sent in big subs, the largest was 20 cards.