I know, it was stamped on crookedly obviously. That shouldn’t affect the grade
I personally would not grade any of these. None look 10 worthy and 9s or lower aren’t worth sending in for these cards.
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It’s ~$30 USD worth of cards and will cost you more than that to PSA grade them. I am not an expert but can tell you there is no way these cards would be worth sending in unless you are almost certain you will be getting a 10.
The Shining Genesect is damaged and would be worth 8 USD if it wasn’t. Find a better copy.
Volkner is way off center on the back and has something weird going on at the top.
Charizard is not centered on the front.
You would be saving yourself money and upgrading your cards by just purchasing PSA 9s.
PSA 9 Charizard:
www.trollandtoad.com/p1173903.html
smpratte has a great PSA Grading Standards video where he goes over the basics:
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Volkners “weird thing going on at the top” is a dirty sleeve. That centering, I agree, is really sad and would probably get PSA 9 OC. Makes it all the more special, especially since no PSA 9 OC exist currently.
Voklner is not even close to off-center enough to get an OC grade, that’s 75% of all modern Ultra Rare centering. Multiply that 2.5-3x more to stand a chance at an OC grade.
Ah. It’ll probably get a 9 then, maybe a 10 if Im lucky!
I did some looking and found this for Beckett grading. webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wlxIZfbY5dgJ:https://www.spinotron.com/bgs-calculation.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca
A Beckett 9.5 Gem Mint is equivalent to a PSA 10 Gem Mint, and a Beckett 10 is higher than a PSA 10.
According to this…
Volkner is a BGM 9
~Centering~: 9
~Edges~: 10
~Corners~: 10
~Surface~: 10
Final Grade: Gap between the 3rd and 4th highest subgrades (9.5, and then 8.5) is 1.5 which is less than 2.0. So we add 8.5 (4th subgrade) + 0.5 to get a BGM 9.5 which is GEM MINT and equal to a PSA 10! If this had better centering, it would be a BGM 10 (PRISTINE) which is higher than a PSA 10!
Charizard is a BGM 9 (Mint) which is equivalent to a PSA 9.5 (if such existed)
~Centering~: 9.5
~Edges~: 8.5
~Corners~: 9.5
~Surface~: 10
Final grade: 9
Poor Genesect, on the other hand!
~Centering~: 9.5
~Edges~: 10
~Corners~: 9.5
~Surface~: 6.5
Final grade: 8
because the gap between 6.5 and 9.5 is 3. Their algorithm states that edge/surface gap that’s equal or greater than 1.0,= is 4th subgrade (6.5) + 1.0, which gives us a overall of BGM 7.5 (Near Mint). This equals a PSA 8.
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The cool thing about Beckett grades are that they’re more precise than PSA. A BGM 10 sells for more than a PSA 10, since BGM 10s are higher than a PSA 10.
I like Beckett grades because they give you an actual view of what each sector of your card recieved, so you know where it lost its grade. PSA keeps it a sheltered secret, making you wonder “What made it a 9?”. Beckett has a better grading system but uglier slabs.
Everyone can provide you input here, and you could crunch all the numbers, and try to guess which grades your cards would get but honestly the best way to know the grades your cards would get is to just send it of to psa! As many above members said, if your cards wont get a 9 or 10, you are better of saving money by buying the cards already graded on the open market. GL.
Yeah, I’ll probably send them off to Beckett since their grading stadndards are a llot more exact.
These calculations are as close as I could get, Beckett might have a slight indifference, since they konw best
A bgs 10 can be higher than a PSA 10. However Bgs has 2 grades PSA does not: 9.5 and an additional 10. Therefore they aren’t fair comparisons.
I can see what you mean. My Volkner for example might grade a 9.5 with BGS, but maybe a 9 with PSA. Is my calculation on the previous page correct?
Volkner’s centering isn’t messed up after all. It turns out when I was pasting the pictures side by side so you could see the front and back at the same time, It overlapped a bit of Volkner’s back border so it got a bit cut off! Here’s the back itself, unedited. See? It’s not crooked! So I guess the centering is 10 after all (according to BGS’s standards, since this is better than 65/35), giving it
Centering: 10Surface: 10
Edges: 9.5
Corners: 10
Final grade: (9.5 + 0.5 =) 10 (Pristine)
Is this worth sending in now? I dont know how much it’s worth because there aren’t any graded specimens (English) on eBay!!
It’s all whether or not you want to get them in a case!
I was asking if that card & the Charizard GX from the previous page is worth sending in for grading value-wise. A BGM 10 and BGM 9 aren’t too bad! Would they be worth it in terms of price, if I were to sell them?
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Very true. Never expect the best, you’ll be disappointed. Expect less than the best for a pleasant surprise.
Anyone have an idea if its worth sending in?
So are you going to get them graded based on this discussion?
Im awaiting opinions to see if their value would be worth it