The Giant Professional Grading Thread

If the front centering isn’t 60/40 you won’t get the 9. They’ve been tough on centering now

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Has anyone graded with Beckett recently? I have an order that is already on the way back to me (I have the DHL tracking number and is estimated to arrive tomorrow) and the website still says “Labels” stage and shows no grades. Has anyone else experienced this?

What grade would this get?



Bought 2 copies, these are the estimations.

C’mon Vert, you gotta know these AI grading apps are bogus.

To give a better idea of potential grade, we would need better pictures of both the front and back.

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Vert :joy: I genuinely thought this post was a joke at first.

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Try make the picture a bit smaller with more of it cropped off then I’ll have a guess :joy:

Cool card but need good pics pls :grin:

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I just wanted to quadruple check that these square tabs/blemishes are normal for new psa slabs. My last return 6 months ago didnt have these. @Paulkemon and others have said it’s normal. I’m just quadruple tapping this to make sure before the CRC window closes for this return lol. I got slammed on upcharges so Im being extra neurotic about this

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Some of the seals/internal seams? on my PSA slabs look awful. Like they’ve been cracked together by a fucking Walrus. When they’re stacked up together it actually looks pretty poo.

I don’t think anything looks amiss here

Completely normal with newer slabs. Here are 2 of mine from a submission that came back just last week and the cards pictured have it on different sides.

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Clearer pics.

Normal

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8 and 9 would be my guess. From my experience visible front whitening on modern Japanese is no bueno

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Thanks for the info guys and gals. Pretty annoying that this is the new norm with PSA slabs though. Very unsightly

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I actually want a 8 or 9.

Hello hope you all are well , I recently acquired these old cards and was wondering if they would be worth sending to a grading company , all opinions and advice is welcome :blush:

Welcome. I’ve moved your post to the dedicated thread.

I’m not too well-versed into grading in general, and especially not for Yu-Gi-Oh, but I feel like your top three cards and bottom three cards in your picture could in general be popular cards to grade. Whether your copies in particular are worth grading, I dunno. It also depends a lot on the condition, which we can’t really judge with just a single picture of the front. A lot of whitening-damage is usually found on the back, which might greatly affect the potential grade.

Also, what is your purpose for the grading? To maximize profit when flipping them, or to preserve their current condition for your own collection?

If they’re in 9/10 condition, it might be worth sending to any of the big grading companies of your choice (maybe investigate which is the most popular for Yu-Gi-Oh - I think it’s also PSA like Pokémon iirc :thinking: Unlike MTG, where BGS is usually the more popular grading option).

Greetz,
Quuador

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For YGO im pretty sure its 1st edition or bust. Last sale for the unl Dark Magician in a psa 10 was $125 for example. Best way for you to work it out is look up the cards on ebay and work it out from there depending on the conditions of your cards.

Edit: last BEWD in a 10 was 368 so thay may be worth it as long as you’re confident in a 9/10.

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Looking for people’s recs on what card savers they use for grading prep.

Just got through my stack of Card Saver Is, but they had a lot of sleeves where there was like a “grain defect” that would damage a card if I stored it in them.

One vote here for VaultX semi rigid holders.