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Does anyone submit currents (2000s) to PSA

llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
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Does anyone on this forum submit currents to PSA for grading? I'm trying to assemble a Topps Cincinnati Reds collection and most of the recent years either have 0-2 slabbed. If you submit, what's your success rate? It looks like most current issues have a 70% PSA 10 success rate. Also, do you have better luck with vending (90s or earlier), regular or jumbo boxes... or buying them as singles?
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    rjcoy06rjcoy06 Posts: 157 ✭✭✭
    I have submitted new cards to PSA and almost always get 9's or 10's. I have had a couple of the thicker patch cards come back an 7 or 8. I'm pretty picky about what I send in, but when some cards are 1/1 or 1/5, I take the occasional 7 or 8.
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    DarinDarin Posts: 6,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I send in a few Alex Gordon cards. Some Hosmers'. Fairly easy to get 10's on newer cards.

    I usually buy singles from a dealer like Burbank sportscards on ebay.
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    PMKAYPMKAY Posts: 1,372 ✭✭
    All the time
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    llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    Originally posted by: PMKAY
    All the time


    Have you noticed one source providing better results? Sealed factory sets, vending boxes, hobby boxes, HTA boxes, retail boxes, etc.?
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    PMKAYPMKAY Posts: 1,372 ✭✭
    I only buy hobby boxes of modern hockey / football / wrestling.
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    skrezyna23skrezyna23 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭
    Originally posted by: Darin

    Fairly easy to get 10's on newer cards. I usually buy singles from a dealer like Burbank sportscards on ebay.




    Are the cards listed as mint or nm/mt? Ive bought NM/MT from BS and they come back like that or over-graded. I bought 300 different Buehrle cards (2000-2014) from them and about 40% were over-graded. All the cards I see on their auctions are NM/MT and they wont send scans. Not buying from them again.
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    DarinDarin Posts: 6,359 ✭✭✭✭✭
    skrezyna- I haven't bought nearly as many cards from them as you have, so you may have a better idea about Burbank sportscards than I do.

    What I have done with decent luck is, say I want a 2010 topps Alex Gordon, I'll buy three of them from BS and then submit the best one or two.

    I've usually found that at least one is submittable, and my goal is at least to get a PSA 9, and had pretty good luck getting some 10's.

    I've got some cards I bought from them at PSA now, so I guess I'll see how they do.



    I think they're always advertised as NM/MT, which would put them in PSA 8-10 range, so I actually have been pretty happy with the cards I've bought from them.
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    PMKAYPMKAY Posts: 1,372 ✭✭
    I won't buy from Burbank or any other seller that uses stock photos. Whether or not I'm having the card graded, I still want to know see the card I'm buying before I buy it.
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    jackstrawjackstraw Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭
    I have noticed that 2003 Topps is very hard to find 10's on. I tried a few times with Griffey and it's going to be costly

    if you are doing a 10 graded team set.
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    MeatloafMeatloaf Posts: 1,308
    Originally posted by: llafoe

    Does anyone on this forum submit currents to PSA for grading? I'm trying to assemble a Topps Cincinnati Reds collection and most of the recent years either have 0-2 slabbed. If you submit, what's your success rate? It looks like most current issues have a 70% PSA 10 success rate. Also, do you have better luck with vending (90s or earlier), regular or jumbo boxes... or buying them as singles?




    YES: http://forums.collectors.com/m...11&threadid=957903



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