10-16-2012, 02:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-16-2012, 02:09 AM by spazmatastic.)
RE: BGS VS. BCCG
RE: BGS VS. BCCG
BCCG is mostly used by secondary-market card companies. If you go to Target/Walmart/KMart/ToysRUs and see a package that guarantees a Graded card, plus X number of packs, you will get a BCCG graded card. BCCG is for MASS amounts of cards being graded at the same time.
I have never seen a BCCG that WASN'T graded a 10. As for what the difference is b/t BCCG and BGS...
BGS will be more strict and probably won't give a 10 to a BCCG 10. Usually, a BCCG 10 will come in about 8.5 to 9.0 BGS.
In general, anything with a BCCG rating was straight out of the pack and straight to Beckett from a secondary dealer to try to make it seem more valuable. They are usually base card rookies or rookie parallels or Draft Pick/Prospect cards of someone that becomes hot in the sport or hobby.
Most collectors don't really care to get a BCCG card unless it is the only one they can get their hands on at the time. They will later upgrade to the raw version or a BGS version.
I have 3 BCCG cards right now and all are Panthers NFL rookie or rookie parallel cards. I have since acquired Raw versions of all 3 cards. The only good thing about the BCCG cards is that they can't be damaged, unless they are in a fire!
EDIT -- There is one other thing that's nice about BCCG graded cards, they look nice when you display them where you know a non-collector is going to be looking at them.
I have never seen a BCCG that WASN'T graded a 10. As for what the difference is b/t BCCG and BGS...
BGS will be more strict and probably won't give a 10 to a BCCG 10. Usually, a BCCG 10 will come in about 8.5 to 9.0 BGS.
In general, anything with a BCCG rating was straight out of the pack and straight to Beckett from a secondary dealer to try to make it seem more valuable. They are usually base card rookies or rookie parallels or Draft Pick/Prospect cards of someone that becomes hot in the sport or hobby.
Most collectors don't really care to get a BCCG card unless it is the only one they can get their hands on at the time. They will later upgrade to the raw version or a BGS version.
I have 3 BCCG cards right now and all are Panthers NFL rookie or rookie parallel cards. I have since acquired Raw versions of all 3 cards. The only good thing about the BCCG cards is that they can't be damaged, unless they are in a fire!
EDIT -- There is one other thing that's nice about BCCG graded cards, they look nice when you display them where you know a non-collector is going to be looking at them.