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I enjoy buying raw cards and getting them graded..

olb31olb31 Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Please provide the best purchases you turned into gold after getting them graded. For example, one of my best raw purchases was a 1993 topps gold Derek Jeter for about $10 off of EBAY. I had it graded and it came back a BGS 9.5, only 20 exist and the card last sold for $250. Let's hear yours.
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  • akuracy503akuracy503 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭
    I'd like for someone to actually find the infamous 1986 Topps Alan Knicely in raw and flip it into a PSA 10 slab.....I am willing to bet this bad boy would sell for 3 digits, and the buyer will be from the board, bragging rights and 1952 topps mantle trade bait.

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  • akuracy503akuracy503 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭
    And if someone found the Tiffany version....forget about it....Honus Wagner T206 trade bait...

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  • akuracy503akuracy503 Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭
    In all seriousness, who actually has the 86 topps Knicely in a PSA slab?

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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    They fit Knicely into any collection...
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭


    << <i>They fit Knicely into any collection... >>



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  • metsfanmetsfan Posts: 834
    There was a 63 common on Ebay (don't remember the player). Looked like a possible 8 from the scan, won the auction, paid mabe $6 with shipping. When, I got the card it looked better then the scan, ended up grading a "9". Sold it for about $100.
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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭
    i bought early 80 topps sets for my topps run paid about $100 for 81-82-83-84 or so got a nice sandberg rookie graded out at PSA 10 sold it for $200
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    collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.

    looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started

  • corvette1340corvette1340 Posts: 3,384 ✭✭✭
    I've shared this story on the boards before. When I first got back into collecting a couple of years ago I was new to the grading game. I decided to put together the '61 Topps Set and ended up having around 200 graded when I sold it. I bought a raw '61 Yaz from a antique consignment lady on ebay who had 2 pictures of the card. Being new to the game, I thought it looked really good from the pictures so I decided to gamble on it and bought it for $30. When I got it in hand it looked brilliant so I sent it off with a batch of '61's. It came back as this:

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    2/25/10 eBay Auction $244.39
    10/21/09 eBay Auction $242.50
    11/2/08 eBay $280.09 <------sold it for this.
    8/3/08 eBay $214.50
  • InMySockInMySock Posts: 243
    A while back, I bought a 1992 Packers Police Brett Favre card raw. It was the best centered card without edge chipping that I had ever seen (green boarders makes it tough). I bought it for $10.50 raw. I recently had it graded. Came back as a PSA 10. It was the first PSA 10 that was graded.

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    Shortly there after (within 2 weeks) another PSA 10 was graded. It recently sold on eBay for $1050.00. Admittedly, the fact that the seller misled buyers by saying it was a POP 1, probably had a little something to do with the price. It wasn't the first time the seller has done this, and it certainly isn't the last.
  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    These two were the best for me so far this year
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    Paid 3.00 for this one
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭
    Bought a NM/MT 1961 Fleer Basketball set for $3,500. Pulled 3 9's from the set.......
  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    RAW 55 topps Norm Zauchin for 40 bucks, graded 8 sold for 700. BArely covers the amount of losses!
  • CNoteCNote Posts: 2,070 ✭
    I purchased a 2006 Finest Ken Griffey Jr Gold Xfractor for $135 about two years ago. #'d 07/10. Got it graded, came back a PSA 10. Recently sold it for $750
  • burke23burke23 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭
    I've posted before - bought a raw lot of '87 fleer basketball...got a psa 10 Jabbar and sold it for $900...also got a psa 10 Cedric Maxwell that I sold for $135.
    Looking for rare Randy Moss rookies and autos, as well as '97 PMG Red Football cards for my set.
  • MULLINS5MULLINS5 Posts: 4,517 ✭✭✭
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  • ZeeckZeeck Posts: 73
    I bought this card for $8 raw for my All-Time University of Illinois rookies. I knew it was a nice example, but had no clue it'd grade this high when I made the purchase:

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  • handymanhandyman Posts: 5,446 ✭✭✭✭✭
    you sound like me. Mullin
    Great buy!
  • digicatdigicat Posts: 8,551 ✭✭
    I bought a 1986 Mother's Cookies Giants set several years ago for about $5, submitted the Will Clark and got a PSA 10. It was pop 1 at the time, and sold it for $500 to a very motovated Will Clark collector. Fun times!
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  • captainthreeputtcaptainthreeputt Posts: 1,235 ✭✭
    I bought a lot of 33 1950 Callahan cards on ebay for $100. They were described as near mint-mint. I sent the nicest 15 cards from the lot to PSA for grading. They came back 1-PSA 7, 13-PSA 8, and the last one was a Nap Lajoie which came back a PSA 9 pop 1of4. I sold it for $750.
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  • jswietonjswieton Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭
    Nothing to crazy, I bought a raw 1972 Bobby hull for $3 and sold it for around $65 in a PSA 9 holder. I also bought a raw 1991 Score Brett Favre for $5 and sold it for around $60 in a PSA 10.
  • bobbybakerivbobbybakeriv Posts: 2,186 ✭✭✭✭
    Bought this raw on Ebay for $4.25 about 8 years ago. I bought the Brett around the same time for $6.75. I joined PSA shortly thereafter and submitted both on my initial sub. Talk about luck. image I still have both.

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  • lilmulelilmule Posts: 1,011 ✭✭✭✭
    I bought a raw 68 topps game card of hank aaron a few years ago for about 10.00. When I had the submission graded it came back a PSA 10 sold for little over a $1000.00. Talk about luck.

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  • hammeredhammered Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Bought this raw on Ebay for $4.25 about 8 years ago. I bought the Brett around the same time for $6.75. I joined PSA shortly thereafter and submitted both on my initial sub. Talk about luck. image I still have both.

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