[madhatter74]

I have been buying BGS graded cards online because it is so much cheaper than sending in my own cards.

For example, I would like to submit some of my higher end cards. But just sending in 1 card (for example my 1986 Southern League All Stars Tom Glavine card) would cost $49?!?!? $28 is shipping alone? $10 for insurance? That's insane... are there other options for grading on a budget. I can't swing that for one card.

How does anyone afford that?

[jacobystealshome]

group submissions. the only way to go. there's a few of them on the board, the football board seems to have the biggest one

[y2hood]

Yeah group subs like our esteemed colleague above pointed out. It's ballooned recently in cost, possibly getting ahead of the economy and not catching up. I'm not an economist, just a grouchy consumer.

The only way a cost per card submission is low enough anymore is at the 100 card submission point to get $7/card. But that means spending $700. Not many private consumers have time or cash for that.