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how do you get your graded cards???

BassPro77BassPro77 Posts: 1,152 ✭
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Do you buy your cards in PSA?
Do you buy your cards RAW and then submit?
Do you just buy something cheesy like GAI, BVG, SGC, or CSA and cross over?

What do you like to do?
Bill
looking for PELLE LINDBERGH's psa and 1960 fleer baseball psa 8 and up
sets in progress
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R.I.P. Barstow 24 April 1999 - May 15 2009

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  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Since I kept my childhood collection in great shape, I have a stash of old cards to pick through.
    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    Mostly I buy slabbed.

    I send some in raw.

    I crack some out of other slabs.

    Prefer to buy slabbed.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,594 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Since I kept my childhood collection in great shape, I have a stash of old cards to pick through. >>



    What era was that?
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Since I kept my childhood collection in great shape, I have a stash of old cards to pick through. >>



    What era was that? >>



    1970 to mid 80s.
    #LetsGoSwitzerlandThe Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read. The biggest obstacle to progress is a habit of “buying what we want and begging for what we need.”You get the Freedom you fight for and get the Oppression you deserve.
  • bluemarlinbluemarlin Posts: 627 ✭✭✭
    I'd say 99% of my cards I buy already graded.

    Jake
  • F1ferrariF1ferrari Posts: 583
    I bought my first graded card on eBay (I cracked it out and put in my 2004 Heritage set) and I won the other in a give away here on the forums. That's the only 2 graded cards I've ever owned. image
    2001-2014 Topps Heritage complete!
  • SportsItUpCardsSportsItUpCards Posts: 2,547
    Good question!

    I like to get cards for my collection and get them graded by PSA. I will only by an already graded card, if its a card that I need badly for my collection, but thats about it. Again, I would only by graded cards with any other company, only if its a card that belongs in my collection, and I can't pass it up, then I would buy it, and cross over to PSA.

    Giovanni
  • NathanSrNathanSr Posts: 509 ✭
    I started buying PSA Seau's in 2000. There weren't enough graded Seau's on ebay to satisfy so in 2005 I started submitting my own. Within my master set, I make a notation in the comments section of each card, as to where I acquired it from. image At some point I hope to have more self submitted cards than ones I have acquired from all other sources. Just more satisfying that way.

    NathanSr
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    Successful sales: xphunk, vjsteele4, onefasttalon, five7teen, yankeeno7

    Successful trades: mijang

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  • bigreddogbigreddog Posts: 1,156
    Im in the process of crossing my 71 Topps PSA Registry set over to "Cheesy" SGC
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Im in the process of crossing my 71 Topps PSA Registry set over to "Cheesy" SGC >>



    is it baseball? Why are you hiding those black borders with a gasket image
  • HighChopperHighChopper Posts: 1,091
    Usually buy raw from NewEnglandSportsCards and have graded by PSA.

    It's funny, though, my cards never seem to grade higher than NM 7.
    There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    SGC cheesy?

    hmmmmm

    I have bought them already graded by PSA.

    I have submitted raw cards to PSA.

    I have bought SGC Cards and crossed them.

    I have bought GAI cards (2) one I can't cross the other came back as trimmed.

    I am open to getting cards anyway i can.

    Steve

    Good for you.
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,888 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I buy mine already PSA slabbed.

    MY GOLD TYPE SET https://pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/complete-type-sets/gold-type-set-12-piece-circulation-strikes-1839-1933/publishedset/321940

  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    I have never sent anything in for grading . . .

    I can't handle rejection . image

    I buy the ones I want already graded .
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