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What would you pick for a modern auto RC: PSA or BGS

bouncebounce Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭
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Been doing some searching lately for some rookie auto and patch/auto cards.

Have noticed that there are many more BGS 9.5s available than there are PSA 10s or even PSA 9s.

Since I buy them already graded and don't play the submission game, just wondering why this is?

Is it because BGS also gives an autograph grade, or is there some other reason?

I've also noticed that on a lot of them, the BGS 9.5 sells for more than the PSA 10, although this isn't always true. Again, wondering why?

Maybe this has been discussed before, but I don't remember it if it was. Would like to hear some opinions.

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  • halosfanhalosfan Posts: 2,642 ✭✭✭✭
    I stick and stay with PSA and when I stray it is with SGC. I just have never been a BGS fan
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  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    Depends on what i an going to do with it.


    most of my modern FB Autos are BGS. that wasn't by design, i was just hunting for the best price
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • vladguerrerovladguerrero Posts: 4,077 ✭✭✭
    BGS
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    id also like to add that some cards, like 2004 SPA FB Autos, look horrible in those PSA Wax Slabs
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    BGS.
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • dberk12dberk12 Posts: 399 ✭✭
    BGS grades the auto also which is not done with SGC or PSA. A 9.5 card with a 10 auto increases the scarcity of the example.

    I would stick with BGS for refractor auto cards. PSA for everything else.


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  • olb31olb31 Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great question. i was noticing that the 2001 Miguel Cabrera Bowman cards were nearly all BGS, no auto involved. I am wondering about some of the same things you are.
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  • WhiteTornadoWhiteTornado Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭
    I have been wondering as well, both with regards to auto and non-auto, for modern FB. Thanks to all for the input.
  • hyperchipper09hyperchipper09 Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I stick and stay with PSA and when I stray it is with SGC. I just have never been a BGS fan >>




    Pretty much me right there the last year or so.
  • bouncebounce Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I have been wondering as well, both with regards to auto and non-auto, for modern FB. Thanks to all for the input. >>



    agree and please keep it coming folks - want to better understand what people think about and look for on the modern autographed RCs

    I'm also chasing a fair bit of these in FB and noticing a TON more in BGS holders than PSA, wondering why that is - I can't imagine it's just the auto grade as there are plenty of 10 auto grades that shouldn't be, which says to me it's sort of irrelevant thing UNLESS it's less than a 10
  • dberk12dberk12 Posts: 399 ✭✭
    I can't imagine it's just the auto grade as there are plenty of 10 auto grades that shouldn't be, which says to me it's sort of irrelevant thing UNLESS it's less than a 10 >>



    Exactly. An auto less than a 10 is unacceptable to the OCD population. Miguel Cabrera is probably my starting point for when to consider BGS. Anything before Cabrera I prefer PSA.


    Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.





    -George F. Will
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    It all depends on what you would consider to be vintage. Personally, I consider anything beyond the past twenty years.
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭
    Easy Answer?

    Why are there more BGS'? Thats what the kids collect. Also, its much easier to submit to BGS (no membership needed)
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    Not even close, Those Back Pages.
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭


    << <i>Not even close, Those Back Pages. >>



    How so?
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭
    I am not a "kid". Neither are most collectors who trust BGS for their collection of nonvintage sports cards.
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • MiresMires Posts: 71
    If you ask any forum what grading company is best, the general consensus is:

    Modern = BGS
    Vintage = PSA
    Pre-War = SGC

    That could have a little to do with it.
  • ThoseBackPagesThoseBackPages Posts: 4,871 ✭✭


    << <i>I am not a "kid". Neither are most collectors who trust BGS for their collection of nonvintage sports cards. >>



    "Kid" to me is any one under 40 years of age image
    Big Fan of: HOF Post War RC, Graded RCs
    WTB: PSA 1 - PSA 3 Centered, High Eye Appeal 1950's Mantle
  • longtimemetsfanlongtimemetsfan Posts: 152 ✭✭
    "Kid" to me is any one under 40 years of age image >>



    Unfortunately I agree. image
  • daprodapro Posts: 209 ✭✭
    BGS for modern and PSA for vintage.
  • MikeyPMikeyP Posts: 990 ✭✭✭


    << <i>"Kid" to me is any one under 40 years of age >>



    What do consider to be over the hill then? 111? Stay well guys. image
    "Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood."
  • bouncebounce Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭


    << <i>If you ask any forum what grading company is best, the general consensus is:
    Modern = BGS
    Vintage = PSA
    Pre-War = SGC
    >>



    And is this because the perceived card grade accuracy is "better" at each for these items?

    I have to admit, I see plenty of PSA 10s that don't look "GEM MINT" to me, but I haven't seen too many BGS 9.5s that I felt the same way about. I'm obviously excluding BGS 10 Pristine, but mainly because there are so few in the first place.
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