New England Sportscards is amazing

pmcollectour

Over 7000 positive feedback in one month.

Average card sales are between five and ten dollars.

That comes out to 35,000 to 70,000 dollars worth of cards being sold each month. Shipping is free.

That's almost 250 cards being sold per day.

I wonder how many are staffed to keep that operation going.

The book keeping itself must take all day long. Let alone the listings, sorting, and submitting to PSA.

That is one heck of an operation. I wonder how many hands are on deck.

SlangNRox

I read about them a lot on here. Just wanted a clarification. New England Sportscards = 3 sharp corners?

calaban7

<< <i>I read about them a lot on here. Just wanted a clarification. New England Sportscards = 3 sharp corners? >>



LOL--- great point ---- Sonny

jay0791

yes

thats the one.

all of 4SC leftover slop. advertize cards as mint. recieved and nmt or nmt/mt at best.

With the high grades recieved by 4sc.....they certainly know how to grade. but lets be honest when u sell as raw.

stillyz

I've been pleased with the cards I've purchased from them.

I bought a bunch of 78 Topps football from them, sub'ed them for grading and got 9s a lot of the time.

The 71 Topps Baseball cards that I have received have all been accurately graded.

Their feedback is impressive too. 7244 positives, 5 neutral or negative. In one month.

brianwintersfan

Never had anything graded that I bought from them but for raw sets their cards are just fine. Always been happy with what I have gotten from them.

Dpeck100

I don't know who it was but someone on here got a Pop 1 PSA 10 Gem Mint from them not to long ago.

There cards can't be to bad.

mcadams

<< <i>I don't know who it was but someone on here got a Pop 1 PSA 10 Gem Mint from them not to long ago.

There cards can't be to bad. >>



I've had 3 or 4 pop1 psa 10's over the last decade of buying from them. Mostly '04 - '06 when I was working on my Murphy master set.

brianwintersfan

With as much as 4SC submits they are bound to let a few good ones slip through. As I said I have always been happy with what I have bought from them.

jeffcbay

I've had great grading results while buying from NESC, but I always make sure I buy multiple cards from them at a time, because if you only order one card they ship it in a PWE.

wolfbear

Lots of cards aren't worth grading unless they come back at least a 9,
but they're still good looking cards that can fit nicely into someone's raw set.

NESC provides decent scans and reasonably accurate descriptions,
so I'd rate them way above average compared to other eBay raw card sellers

which may not be saying much ...

ShootyBabitt

<< <i>I don't know who it was but someone on here got a Pop 1 PSA 10 Gem Mint from them not to long ago.

There cards can't be to bad. >>



I posted about one in the past year; a 1978-79 basketball card. It's still Pop 1!

WalterSobchak

If you look at the scans closely, you can usually get a fair shake from them. I have bought individual raw cards for my '70s sets many times from NESC- and my opinion of the grade when I receive them matches up with what was advertised far, far more often than not.

Just know that it's very unlikely you're going to get any 'steals'.

TheCARDKid

They seem to get good prices for cards that would otherwise just sit on the shelf....like $4 for an 1983 Topps Ryan, $5 1981 Topps Schmidt. How else would you move those on a regular basis?

Pretty impressive operation.

Dpeck100

Yep it was you who posted the find.

If a raw seller whose primary business is to have their counterpart get strong cards graded and sell them moves a gem for pennies on the dollar they can't be that bad.

After reading and participating on this board for the past two years I have realized that many people will never be happy.

Not everyone in this world is scam artist. I sell to Canada with no tracking and just believe that the buyer will be pleased that a seller from the US will deal with them.

The mega sized operations like 4SC and New England Sportscards are good for the vast majority of people in the hobby. They are like a market maker in the stock market and provide liquidity to the card market.

It can be debated until the cows come home but in the end most of us win with someone putting that much capital on the line to try and make a profit selling trading cards.

bigreddog

The attitude that somehow a raw card being called MINT is generally acceptable with lower grading standards than a Graded card don't wash with me.

MINT is MINT regardless weather the card is graded or raw. Then again the MINTstandard for my raw cards is usually higher than the grading companies.


Ive gotten a few keepers from NESC, but the vast majority have been overgrades. usually some kind of print flaws.
Just because I collect Raw doesn't mean I will except a lower standard card.

I have returned quite a few cards. I really don't purchase any more from them.

I don't like the vague descriptions and when I ask them a question about a cards they always reply with "I don't have that information"

To their credit Ive never had a problem returning cards.

John
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jswieton

I buy a lot of my raw cards from them that I use for my autograph collection. I have been very satisfied with their service. In general I probably wouldn't purchase from them if you are looking to pull a PSA 10 since most have been scrutinized by 4sc and picked through.

However, If you are looking for NM+ cards than you will be happy. Most of the cards I purchase from them have that "pack fresh" feel/look to them and haven't been sitting around in a display case somewhere for years. In general I feel their prices are also very fair for the most part and you can usually get a very good idea of what the card will grade if you take a good look at their scans. On a couple occasions I have found a few PSA 10's and many PSA 9's from their raw cards. This usually happens for the cards that have lessor name players on them or a star players 2nd or 3rd year card. I have never had the feeling like they are intentionally trying to misrepresent the card they are selling. thats just my $0.02 on the whole situation.

GB5HOF

I've bought many raw 1973 Topps Baseball from them that have come back PSA 8 or 9.

BaltimoreYankee

I've been very happy with the few cards I've purchased from NESC.

With all my eBay raw purchases, I go in with the attitude that you need to knock at least one grade off what the seller lists a card at.

aconte

I have bought from them and have been very happy. The grades assigned by them are pretty accurate for what I have bought. Their
large scans are great too. Would buy from them again for my raw sets.

aconte

mtcards

"It's Raw, you bleeding donkey" - Gordon Ramsay

wolfbear