Forgive me for my rambling thoughts but I am in the process of making some big changes to my PC which as it stands today is almost exclusively graded football cards. (BGS/BVG) I have been trading or selling off most of my new "star" cards in favor of HOFers.
There are two major gambles as I see it. 1) the card you buy online doesn't grade out to be what it was advertised as, 2) the card is mis-graded on a given day by a given grader. Before you jump me on #2, I will tell you that I have sent several cards to be graded only to break them out of their slabs when I get them back, send them back to Beckett and get a higher grade....so I know it happens.
Another struggle is buy a card at a bargain if it is truly as good of condition as the seller says it is and have it graded...or just buy it graded in the first place...both have worked for me but some cards are really tough....I have sent in 3 1986 Jerry Rice RCs...I bought them all for between $23-$28 and spent usually around $15 to have them graded....all came back BGS 8...which books for $60 so I haven't lost anything but I can buy one on ebay already graded 8 for about the same....
I guess since I no longer buy wax packs...sending cards in to be graded and waiting for the results fill that need. By the way, this really doesn't pertain to the new cards...for the most part if I really look at a new card it comes back 9 or 9.5...it's the old cards that are tricky.
I have a 1950 Bowman Joe Perry RC and a 1958 Topps Jim Brown RC..both are graded BVG 6...BUT the Jim Brown card is so much nicer than the Joe Perry you just have to wonder which is more accurate but they should not be the same grade.
So these are the thoughts I struggle with when dealing with graded cards.....oh and the mystery of cards that have come back saying they are altered or something..I have one like that right now that I should get back this week...I have also got cards that came back saying altered and I've sent them back and recieved a decent grade...so you just don't know.
Thanks for letting me share my thoughts
There are two major gambles as I see it. 1) the card you buy online doesn't grade out to be what it was advertised as, 2) the card is mis-graded on a given day by a given grader. Before you jump me on #2, I will tell you that I have sent several cards to be graded only to break them out of their slabs when I get them back, send them back to Beckett and get a higher grade....so I know it happens.
Another struggle is buy a card at a bargain if it is truly as good of condition as the seller says it is and have it graded...or just buy it graded in the first place...both have worked for me but some cards are really tough....I have sent in 3 1986 Jerry Rice RCs...I bought them all for between $23-$28 and spent usually around $15 to have them graded....all came back BGS 8...which books for $60 so I haven't lost anything but I can buy one on ebay already graded 8 for about the same....
I guess since I no longer buy wax packs...sending cards in to be graded and waiting for the results fill that need. By the way, this really doesn't pertain to the new cards...for the most part if I really look at a new card it comes back 9 or 9.5...it's the old cards that are tricky.
I have a 1950 Bowman Joe Perry RC and a 1958 Topps Jim Brown RC..both are graded BVG 6...BUT the Jim Brown card is so much nicer than the Joe Perry you just have to wonder which is more accurate but they should not be the same grade.
So these are the thoughts I struggle with when dealing with graded cards.....oh and the mystery of cards that have come back saying they are altered or something..I have one like that right now that I should get back this week...I have also got cards that came back saying altered and I've sent them back and recieved a decent grade...so you just don't know.
Thanks for letting me share my thoughts
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Always looking for BGS or BVG graded cards for HOFers....especially the skilled positions.
Always looking for BGS or BVG graded cards for HOFers....especially the skilled positions.