help with unopened value

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• softparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 6, 2005 10:09AM

  Baseball Card Exchange has a 1975 GAI 9 cello pack for sale for $ 95.00. This is just one example, hope it begins to zero in on it for you.
  
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• ajw Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭

  January 6, 2005 10:11AM

  Here's a question: does anyone know what the GAI grade actually means? Does a GAI 10 have more value than a GAI 9? Both are equally unopened, right? Are the folds "crisper" or "prettier" or something on a 10?

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• RepublicaninMass Posts: 255 ✭

  January 6, 2005 10:12AM

  I would put my .02 cents in... but that wouldn't help. Thought a GAI 10 had to come out of a box?

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• aloof1003 Posts: 184 ✭

  January 6, 2005 10:18AM

  thanks guys, what do you mean out of the box ( republicanmass) ?
  
  scott

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• bobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭

  January 6, 2005 11:57AM

  
  
  << <i>thanks guys, what do you mean out of the box ( republicanmass) ?
  
  scott >>
  
  
  In early advertisements for GAI, they said that the only way for a pack to get a GAI 10 was for them to physically remove it from an unopened box. Same thinking for grading an unopened box GAI 10--they'd have to remove it from an unopened case. I don't know if that's still their philosophy or not. It seems pretty narrow minded. If a pack is perfect, and they're convinced it hasn't been tampered with, then it should get a 10.

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