I just saw Rusty’s video, and I was wondering if this was the first case of PSA grading sealed packs of cards(non-booster packs)?
To go with this, moving forward, will they be grading sealed Japanese promos soon, and is there a bit of a complicated process, at least for the first one of each sealed card? Also is there a higher price (I assume so, but I haven’t graded regular packs before either).
Sorry for asking so much, but I was also wondering what people think about this, and value?
Personally I think that it has much more appeal for when 1 card is sealed, and that is graded. Or at least that can have the highest proportional ROI, as it looks nice imo. Whereas a packet of like the Rocket Mewtwo winner cards might have a super small buyer pool, and I wouldn’t have an idea what kind of premium they are willing to pay on this sort of item.
They’ve graded cello packs (rack packs) for years. I appreciate Rusty’s innovative thinking though and psa’s diligence and acceptance of these BUT…what an ugly, useless presentation they are. With most you don’t know what’s inside. Sometimes you can site protection, but protecting penny cards?
What I’m curious about is, they’d use 6 months to finally get these authorized and encased but they won’t make one call to me about the no damage Ninetales?
There was a thread on this about a year ago about some graded sealed pikachu promo. I remember someone saying the grade is actually for the cellophane pack and not the card. If true, I think the concept is ridiculous.
In my subjective opinion, the cases are bulky and the card seems to be just crammed in there. It’s just overall unappealing. I collect cards, not cellophane.
I fully agree that most of these showcased looked bad. But I didn’t know that they encapsulated single sealed cards (despite grading the cellophane).
I thought this was interesting, as we have seen some nicer cards sealed, that could be nice to have encapsulated as a sealed card. Maybe something like the Japanese eeveelution gold stars or the rocket case promos.
@garyis2000, I think it goes without saying that the cards Rusty is encasing is not really for showmanship purposes… ugly as all hell. This would be for the collector that wants a rare and unique item that comes with protection. A premium for a small buyer pool. I imagine very few people would want these, but I will say the Mewtwo winner cards are very cool as a collective bunch.
Yes, silly they can put so much effort into this, but not a simple acceptance of the no damage ninetales.
Like you can get the old movie promos for pennies…so protect what? Then you pay 10.00 to grade without knowing what card is inside? Plus they look bad.
Sorry but I don’t get it.