New BGS slab or try a bump up with PSA for my Brady 2000 SP BGS 9?

erikthredd

I got one more card I'm looking for opinions on. I have this Tom Brady 2000 SP BGS 9 rookie in the older BGS label/slab that I'm thinking about sending in BGS to have the slab replaced. I'm gonna have to spend close to a couple hundred bucks for the shipping & insurance alone for a $5 slab replacement,anyone think this might be worth sending to PSA for a crossover and maybe a bump to Gem Mint? Its got 9.5 on the centering & 9's for the other 3 subgrades. I took the pics with an iphone if they're not great. Opinions?

HighGradeLegends

It would loom nicer IMO in a psa 9 slab....but...no guarantee. I recommend either crack out and submit raw to psa with a 9 min grade or send in current slab to psa with 9 min grade. I rarely if ever get bgs 9s to go to psa 9s or better regardless of sub grades...so a crack out may bring you better luck...if you fail on the crack out...resub to bgs to get a brand new holder.

erikthredd

I'd probably just attempt the crossover as is rather than crack it even though I haven't had any luck trying to crossover 9's with either company. I've cracked BGS slabs before but I wouldn't want to do that with this one.

initialD

I've cracked out the same card in BGS 8.5 and submitted to PSA. Graded PSA 9
Good luck!

initialD

The lower corners don't look as sharp as the top, especially on the reverse. I would try a crossover first

erikthredd

wow,congrats. I'd be attempting a whole grade jump to 10 though. I just figured its gonna cost me an additional $65 for the new BGS slab & return insurance then the additional insurance on the overnight express mail I'd use to ship to BGS will roughly be an extra $50 there. I'm leaning with sticking with BGS and maybe see if it can get a bump thru them if I send it with a 10day order.
If try crossing it with PSA and it doesn't go up I'm out a bit of money and would be back in the same situation as now with BGS just to reslab it. I'll probably do this seeing I can't bring myself to cracking a card valued this high.

secretstash

@initialD said:
The lower corners don't look as sharp as the top, especially on the reverse. I would try a crossover first

Agreed. Bottom left isn't going to make the grade raw imo. Better to try to cross and if not I would leave it be, but I am in agreement that this will not land Gem Mint. If you don't want a 9 then I wouldn't waste time with either BGS or PSA. Too soft of corners. With BGS you would need 2 grades to come up, or with PSA they would have to admit BGS undergraded your card...I hope I am wrong if you do spend the money though.

erikthredd

@secretstash said:

@initialD said:
The lower corners don't look as sharp as the top, especially on the reverse. I would try a crossover first

Agreed. Bottom left isn't going to make the grade raw imo. Better to try to cross and if not I would leave it be, but I am in agreement that this will not land Gem Mint. If you don't want a 9 then I wouldn't waste time with either BGS or PSA. Too soft of corners. With BGS you would need 2 grades to come up, or with PSA they would have to admit BGS undergraded your card...I hope I am wrong if you do spend the money though.

I'm gonna just go with a new slab with BGS. With no guarantee its gets bumped by either company I'd just be wasting money. It also would be keeping with my Brady collection all in BGS slabs. Thanks for the help though.