The sports card market is absolutely booming right now. I sold off enough of my other stuff to buy this. There are only 10 of them. It is indescribably beautiful.
I don't think this is a smart idea for these grading companies to be so God damn expensive, especially when you're gonna have to wait like half a year. I could see one of the smaller/less used companies swooping in and making a name for themselves if they were smart about it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
I don't think this is a smart idea for these grading companies to be so God damn expensive, especially when you're gonna have to wait like half a year. I could see one of the smaller/less used companies swooping in and making a name for themselves if they were smart about it.
Originally Posted by kevrunner:
Price went up, but the one good thing about is now you only have to send in 10 cards to get the discount price. Before you had to send in 20 cards. I’ve been wanting to send in some pre 1971 cards but I didn’t have enough to get the discount, but now I can. These cards are for me, not reselling them, a couple of Namaths, Lew Alcindor (before he changed his name), Maravich and Willie Mays. I’ll be curious to see what grades they get.
It is an odd business. If you have ten tens. Don't send them all together. They will grade lower because they won't grade all of them as tens. Split the order, that way your true tens get graded as such.
I also have a friend that will fix or wax cards before grading. Thought it was bs until I saw them back graded. If he doesn't like the grade he just breaks them and resends until he gets the rating he wants.
Originally Posted by kevrunner:
Price went up, but the one good thing about is now you only have to send in 10 cards to get the discount price. Before you had to send in 20 cards. I’ve been wanting to send in some pre 1971 cards but I didn’t have enough to get the discount, but now I can. These cards are for me, not reselling them, a couple of Namaths, Lew Alcindor (before he changed his name), Maravich and Willie Mays. I’ll be curious to see what grades they get.