30 of 500 bumped in latest submission

Davalillo

It was mentioned in a recent thread that I must get a better bump rate than others because I am in the HOF and have a ton of PSA 8s.

Not true!

My latest submission came back today and 30 of 500 bwere bumped. 23 went to 8.5 and 7 went to a 9.

Years involved were Football--1957 Topps, 1958 Topps, 1960 Fleer, 1962 Fleet and 1963 Fleer and Baseball 1963 Fleer.

My sense and I am pretty sure this is true is that it might climb to 7-8% for the mid 60s stuff but drops pretty low for all the prewar 8s I have submitted and late 40s-early 50s sets--possible 3-4%.

Jim

shagrotn77

Do the increases in value for the cards that were bumped justify the price paid for the reviews? 500 is a lotta cards to have reviewed.

Davalillo

In my case, it does.

Griffins

Jim- did you pick and chose or just grab a stack? Trying to see if there is a science to it or if it's pretty random.

mikeschmidt

Congrats on the bumps, Jim-

Be interested to hear more as to whether or not you pre-reviewed the cards and selected "the best of the best" before sending in to PSA.

Davalillo

Anthony and Mike,

No pre-review. Simply take out the 9s and 10s from the set and send in all the 8s.

Try to give them 500-1000 cards each time I see them. When I am in Santa Ana on bus I give them 500--if I can see them at a shaow I give them a,000 or even more. Gotta get through all 25,000 8s. Probably have done 5,000 reviews so far or in that neighborhood.

Jim

Davalillo

Marc I'm sorry--I was thinking Mike Schmidt and I wrote Marc--also that was 500-1,000 per submission.

Jim

Dboneesq

Jim,

Nice to see that you were able to not only upgrade your sets but at the same time increase their value by more than the cost of the review submissions! Keep up the good work.

Mickey71

I look through about 500 and pick the 20 best and 4 bump; so you are doing well with just picking random. Although I think they are just bumped randomly. When I sent my first 14 in...the 14th card was basically just a throw in because it was clearly not as nice as the first 13. I had 3 cards bump. Guess which one of the 3 bumped----#14. I usually share the results with a friend at work who mildly collects cards and after seeing the results of the review sub he was doubting the whole grading thing entirely. At first PSA said centering...bogus////it's corners all the way.

Davalillo

Mickey,

Or maybe its both....I do look at my 8s that bumped and they all have very sharp corners and are well centered.

Jim

Mickey71

Jim, don't get me wrong....it needs to be nicely centered; but most 8's generally already are so the big factor is corners and then print quality.

theczar

Robby

<< <i>Has anyone tried to bump a group of 9's, hoping for Gem Mints?

FM >>



If you look up the 1964 Topps Baseball thread , I believe the number 1 set and Brian's set have sent in numerous 9's hoping to get 10's ...................can't remember what their results were , but I don't think they had much success !
As for myself , I've had fairly good results on reviews for my 1964 set ' Robbie's 1964 Topps Set ' ................ all cards sent in for the review were in their original slabs and I carefully screened the best possible candidates to bump 8's up to a 9 ................... out of 34 reviews 15 failed ..... 13 bumped from 8 to 8.5 and 6 bumped from 8 to 9 's ....................maybe someday I may try to bump my 9's for those elusive 10's !
Robbie

macboube

re. our '55 AA's many of our 34 - 10's were originally graded 9. Sometimes it would take 2, 3, even 4 review subs to bump. still have several 9's that possibly could be 10's - but it can get expensive particularly at $35 a pop for over $500 9's.

CSUrunandstun

Harmon 9, Harmon 9, Harmon 9..............