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MintacularMintacular Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭
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Wow-great answers on my last post, good to know for the future. So here's another one for you: What percent of SMR Value does a GAI card hold on average? For example, if you paid $100 for a PSA 9 card, how much would a GAI 9 sell for typically?

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  • 1989FleerBillRipkencollector1989FleerBillRipkencollector Posts: 4,590
    Don't have an answer for your question but to inform those who are unaware or care... GAI is under either new ownership or just moved.

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  • VitoCo1972VitoCo1972 Posts: 6,135 ✭✭✭
    Wow, and in Iowa no less?
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  • leathtechleathtech Posts: 3,191 ✭
    I think Mike will be a busy man...

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  • bbcemporiumbbcemporium Posts: 684 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow, and in Iowa no less? >>



    Sweet, that is an hour from my house. Unfortunately, I do not use them.
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  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    At this point I'd probably stick a fork in them. Lots of stuff got thru the last few years that was bad, and they almost singlehandedly killed the unopened pack market by letting reseals and bogus cellos go thru. Not to mention trimmed and reglossed '55 Bowmans, and tons of other stuff. You really have to ask yourself why a seller would offer a GAI graded card, since it would most certainly sell for more in a SGC or PSA holder 3 grades lower.

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  • MintacularMintacular Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭
    That bad eh? What about the stuff they graded a few years ago when they were still legit?
  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
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  • MintacularMintacular Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭
    What is AAC?
  • jcdcubsjcdcubs Posts: 341
    Wow.

    I don't live very far away from IOWA!!! I'm in Dakota.
  • NickMNickM Posts: 4,895 ✭✭✭
    Is that $100 PSA 9 card a late '60s or '70s HOFer, or a modern top rookie card? If the former, you'd be lucky to get $40 or $50 for it. If the latter, it may be $100.

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  • jcdcubsjcdcubs Posts: 341
    Maybe I try GAI? $6.00 per card - 20 days.

    PSA raise the price!!! $7.00 per card - 45 days.

    April special is just about over. $4.50 per card is just awsome!!!!
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
    GAI is worthless...personal experience, they missed a surface wrinkled...GAI 7 came back PSA 5.....They runied it for alot of good people
  • MintacularMintacular Posts: 1,138 ✭✭✭
    OK, I hear you all not liking them, I can dig that. From a purely financial standpoint, what percent of PSA value do they hold and what years???
  • ElToroLocoElToroLoco Posts: 914 ✭
    30%-60% across the board , with the high end being modern rookie autos and highly sought after vintage. Any vintage packs graded with the new lables(white on label and another type) are suspect, so 25% but I wouldn't touch them. Now with the older grey labels, I'd put that at 60-80% of PSA comparable values. Of course, my estimates are based on nothing more than the air in front of me. image
  • daddymcdaddymc Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Wow.

    I don't live very far away from IOWA!!! I'm in Dakota. >>



    South Dakota? Me too, right across the border from Iowa.
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  • mikeschmidtmikeschmidt Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭


    << <i> Not to mention trimmed and reglossed '55 Bowmans, >>




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  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
    I wish I knew what happened to Danny FIsher.....he was a freaking work of art.......con at its finest! Edited to add I can proudly say I DO NOT own any GAI cards, and when I see them at auctions, I run the other way.....I dont believe they are as worthless as PRO or CSA, but I definitely feel you arent getting your moneys worth with their product.
  • 2dueces2dueces Posts: 6,565 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a sad tale. They could have done alot for the hobby.
    Instead they turned their company into a nightmare. I still own a
    few mid grade GAI T206's, but would never buy another.
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  • RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
    aac = Actual Audible Chuckle. Think of it as a more refined version of LOL.
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  • summerof68summerof68 Posts: 748 ✭
    Word was for a while they were having trouble paying that high rent while being located in a beach community of super expensive Orange county, Ca. Perhaps now that they are in Iowa they might be able to make their rent on time!!!
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  • EagleEyeKidEagleEyeKid Posts: 4,496 ✭✭
    Perhaps now that they are in Iowa they might be able to make their rent on time!!!

    They found a corn field. "If you build it, they will come." Nah.
  • trapperladtrapperlad Posts: 107 ✭✭
    My personal experience on crackouts is better than what one might expect. I have personally have cracked out 6 GAI cards and sent in to PSA. 2 cards graded same. 4 cards actually were graded higher by PSA. One was a 52 GAI 5 Ray Boone that came back PSA 6.5. Maybe I've just been lucky.
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