I don’t spend a lot on cards these days. But I still have my old collection, buy some packs on occasion, and basically go through a brief period at the start of everything sports season where I make sure I have an auto’d insert card from basically every player on the current team.
i have this and the jordan in mint near mint(only taken out of original box a couple times and now in quality protective cases) but not sure aBout the cut/print quality/grade. that one is listed aT 22k.
I have a ton as well. But most are 92’ on. But lots of topps stadium club, fleer ultra, etc. lots of shaqs too.
PSA has an option for $10 gradings on cards valued less than $200, but you need to submit at least 20 I think. Anyway it's a good option to do a stack of cards low to moderate like that. Not sure if it's worth it or not, depends on what you want it for. I went ahead and did a bunch because PSA will put them in those nice slab cases, anything that comes back a 10 I'll probably keep and pass down to my nephew's.
i looked into this. Its very tedious and they dont refund you if you overbid your cards at a potential higher value. Seems very risky to me overall for all the time required to list all the details of every card when one may have hundreds of cards.
Not only do the not refund you for over bidding, but you might get asked to pay more for underbidding too much. So it is walking a fine line. If you plan to buy and sell it's necessary to establish exactly what you have. There is some risk/reward opportunities in this in buying ungraded cards off eBay then getting them graded yourself.
yeah id much rather go in in person and be able to drop them off or something even if just a few at a time. Just dont like all the work to list them all then mail them off in hopes i bid accurately. I mean. Im wanting someone to price them for me. Thats the point. Lol. But like you said, i may meed to bite the bullet.
Also it was tedious but it was also fun. It was just like when I was a kid and spent hours and days looking at, organizing and researching all my stuff. After I got a system down it was pretty fun and not too much effort.
Even if you were able to walk them in, you would still have to catalog what you had on the order sheet. The grading process also takes days and goes through multiple people's verifications
I basically did, check SMR price, check auction price, evaluate, place in correct cases, input order on their online order form, print label, pack for shipping. I guess what I meant was that once you have the web pages open, you've done a few, you have your stack of cards and supplies all lined up then its like a production line. Thats the system you've got to figure out. My first stack of 10 took an hour, then I did a stack of 50 in the second hour.
Should have a card grading party. bunch poler tables set up but card grading instead. Lol. Ive got one full table.
When we were kids we did things like that. Bought boxes of cards then had big unboxing party's where we all opened our packs together. It was so much fun. I always wondered why no one ever considered it gambling for kids though? I mean, it's basically like pulling the slot machine arm with every pack.
That was my dad and my thing from when I was 4 to about 15. Friday nights once a month or so we would go get a box and open them together. Great memories.
That's awesome. My dad wasn't much into sports other than the blazers, but he did take me to all the card shows and local shops he was excited about it because I was excited about it. Some of my absolute best cards in my collection were presents from him.
