Seriously, why would you??

Stingray

Bother to grade a card so off center??

MiniDuff

Years ago when I was building my first mini set, I got a huge chunk in one very unlikely source. It seemed some poor soul got a horror box of minis and instead of calling it a miserable day, they literally graded the box, wax, gum, oc, mc and all. I don't think I paid 600 for the 300+ slabs. People do funny things.

FavreFan1971

could be cards from their childhood.

totallyradd

When I got back into collecting and was still learning, I was more concerned with the corners and edges than the centering. Not that I sent in a bunch of OC cards, maybe 2 or 3, but I learned really fast about the importance of centering.

WalterSobchak

Those would be "learning curve" submissions, I would imagine.

ReggieCleveland

Knowing what PSA deducts for is just like everything else -- you gotta start somewhere. No one comes out of the womb knowing everything. Also, I bet a raw card that would grade PSA 6 would look pretty spectacular to someone not in the hobby.

larryallen73

Ya, my first couple submissions had all of my "mint" cards. Then I learned that my mint and PSA's mint were different.

ThoseBackPages

possibly pack-pulled Original Owner cards.

hard to put a "price tag" on those

1985fan

I have a numbe of cards graded that are worth infinitely more due to sentiment than they'd ever be worth in money.

BigRedMachine

<< <i>Those would be "learning curve" submissions, I would imagine. >>



I agree. I remember my first one. Ugh.

JoeBanzai

Believe it or not, some people want their cards in a holder and don't care what the grade is.

I have a buddy that has swapped me cards with a higher grade (I paid for the grading) for one with a lower grade. He just wants the card.

hyperchipper09

I've gotten a couple of cards, and comics, graded that my Mom had gotten for me way back in the early days of my "collecting". Not for resale value or anything, but for nostalgia. To never forget what collecting was like, and how much fun it was getting a 73 Topps Dewey RC that wasn't gem(and not caring) or getting some Golden Age Dell Tarzan comics in the same condition. To me they were the greatest...

totallyradd

I can completely understand why some people want certain cards slabbed. I had intended on getting a few cards that I cherished from my childhood graded, had them pulled out and sitting on my desk. Then someone broke into our house and along with a laptop and a camera took the stack. My precious Canseco rookie, my UD Griffey rookie, and a handful of other ones were gone. Canseco prolly would've gotten a 7 at best, and the Griffey an 8, but it was heartbreaking to say the least.

The one that bummed me out the most though was my sister's little league card, that I planned on surprising her for her birthday. No replacing that one.

Tishasheree

I sent some cards in that I inherited from my dad. He had some older cards from his youth, off center, with soft corners. I just wanted to have them in a slab, so they can be displayed with the rest of my collection. They meant so much to him, and it meant a lot that he gave them to me.

Stingray

<< <i>I sent some cards in that I inherited from my dad. He had some older cards from his youth, off center, with soft corners. I just wanted to have them in a slab, so they can be displayed with the rest of my collection. They meant so much to him, and it meant a lot that he gave them to me. >>



This I understand, but a card from 84. Why bother to slab it even out of sentimental reasons??

hyperchipper09

If they were done for sentimental reasons, no further explanation required. That is the reason. And everyone's definition of "sentimental" can be different. Depends on how one's mind chooses to spin it. 1984, 1994, 2004, etc. Wouldn't matter what year, if a sentimental tie is the reason.