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HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
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Got about 500 from rack boxes suitable for submission.

Need some advice ... Any thoughts.

Hanging around at #20 on registry.

Thanks!
There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.

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  • RogermnjRogermnj Posts: 1,809 ✭✭
    They are very tough on 85's. Just look at my ebay store, every card i submitted i thought had a shot at a ten and its mostly 8's and 9s.

    check for centering and any specs of white. That should keep the 8s out.
  • DavemriDavemri Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭
    I'm looking for a PSA 9 Dent. Let me know if you get one and want to sell.

    Dave

    FINISHED 12/8/2008!!!
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  • FabfrankFabfrank Posts: 2,312
    I suggest going over the cards a few times. You'll find that if you put them aside and re-evaluate them after a week, you'll whittle down the marginal ones and save some money. Good luck and LMK if you get any 10's.
    Baseball is my Pastime, Football is my Passion
  • shagrotn77shagrotn77 Posts: 5,627 ✭✭✭✭
    If you get a PSA 9 or 10 Carl Banks, I'm your man.
    "My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. Our childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When we were insolent we were placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds - pretty standard really."
  • drewsefdrewsef Posts: 1,894 ✭✭
    My best advice would be to go over the cards several more times until you get anything that doesn't look like a solid 9 or better out, and then send in a small batch of 20-50 cards and see how it goes before sending too many at once and getting hammered.
  • NCDOLFANNCDOLFAN Posts: 300


    << <i>My best advice would be to go over the cards several more times until you get anything that doesn't look like a solid 9 or better out, and then send in a small batch of 20-50 cards and see how it goes before sending too many at once and getting hammered. >>

    ....and then intentionally slide in 10 or 12 slightly off grade cards, around 8's and 9oc's, this will give the grader fodder and make those possible 9 and 10's look like it.
    Any team on any given Sunday, can beat any other team...unless they were playing the Miami Dolphins in 1972.
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>....and then intentionally slide in 10 or 12 slightly off grade cards, around 8's and 9oc's, this will give the grader fodder and make those possible 9 and 10's look like it. >>




    Ahhhhhhh, the old sacrifice the credit card in the quest for bumping the borderline cards trick. Would you believe I missed it by that much?

    Been there, done that. And a host of other scenarios to find the best way to max out an invoice. I've finally settled on what works best... And it does!
  • ldfergldferg Posts: 6,755 ✭✭✭
    scott,
    what is your secret?


    Thanks,

    David (LD_Ferg)



    1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
  • SDSportsFanSDSportsFan Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you get a PSA 10 Fouts, PLEASE let me know!!!


    Steve
  • ping4u43ping4u43 Posts: 908


    << <i>Got about 500 from rack boxes suitable for submission.

    Need some advice ... Any thoughts.

    Hanging around at #20 on registry.

    Thanks! >>



    20,269 85 Football Graded 944= 10"s
  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭


    << <i>scott,
    what is your secret? >>



    Make sure that everything is everything and resubmit the ones that you are sure where and still are everything. A good eye helps, too.

    Seriously, not culling and reviewing again a day or two later and hoping that the grader misses something are the two biggest mistakes submitters make. Look at the cards as if you were a buyer. Would you buy this card as the grade you expect? Or could you point out an additional flaw to the seller to get the price down. If you would pay the price, then odds are, you're being objective. If you are crossing your fingers and expecting a gift, then expect to get unexpected grades!

    Anything else is pretty much a gimmick or a superstition, although there are cases where I will still submit certain condition cards in a specific order to lead to the eventual "benefit of the doubt" on a certain 'tweener card in the sequence. It seems to work, but the end result is not a gift . . . just the higher end of the toss-up grade.
  • Tvac897Tvac897 Posts: 1,478
    Good luck!
    -Rome is Burning

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  • leathtechleathtech Posts: 3,191 ✭
    good luck! I could use any Bears that you don't want to sub!
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  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    Thanks for the advice, guys!

    Here's the dilemma ... I am collecting this set in PSA 9. But it seems the condition varies from card to card. Some appear absolutely perfect. Other 9's have solid corners but ragged edges. Others, still, have slight corner touches. Go fish.

    I have pulled many 9s and some 10s from past submissions, but I'm real hesitant about dropping good money for the 8s that are worth virtually nothing.
    There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
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