- PSA will likely yield highest price tag
- Back looks pretty dirty too. Likely 6/7 but who really knows with grading nowadays
3/4. Grading the cards will help you get the best price for your card, especially since you found these and essentially have $0 original card cost - Individually will also likely yield higher profit. Finding buyers for complete graded set might also be more difficult than selling individually.
- Yes, use Ludkins.
- Yes, but PSA can also upcharge you after the order is complete if they feel the card was sent in a lower value tier anyways.
@mekkerino Yeah you can try with a micro fiber. I donāt know what people use to clean cards, I usually just breathe on the card and wipe with a micro fiber and that has worked for me so far lol
@pokematt, glass cleaning cloth did its job! Card came out great!
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My Standard CGC order through Ludkins hit Grading today:
Arrived 3-31
Staging 4-1
Grading 5-4
This may have been discussed before, but have there been signs of PSA/BGS/CGC market grading cards? I have a limited knowledge of the concept from coin collecting, but generally, are the grading companies taking into account what the market value and impact of their grades would do to value and scarcity?
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PSA takes the grade and its value into consideration in the sense that they will charge you up to a higher service tier that fits the value of your now graded card.
If you mean that they knowingly control the populations of certain cards (āpop controlā), this is very unlikely. There is little reward for the grading companies and huge risk for their reputation - and their whole business model is basically built on trust and reputation.
Seriously meant claims of pop control are usually regarded as kind of conspiracy theory by the community.
Doubtful anyone cares but I finally sent in my first grading submission ever to CGC right before the price increase. Looking forward to waiting 2 years and complaining like everyone else!
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From my understanding, the broader Collectors Universe (or what used to be known as Collectors Universe before earlier this year) would market grade coins through their PCGS arm, so I was curious about PSA. Itās something that happens to some extent across all grading companies in the coin world, and is ānormalā. If a coin has higher eye appeal that itās technical aspects would merit, it could get a small bump. CGC is also owned/associated with NGC, another larger coin grading company that is known to market grade.
To your last point, Iām not sure if pop control is necessarily what Iām thinking of, but if thereās a card that technically merits an 8, but it has the eye appeal of a 9, would it ever get that 9? Another point of clarification, this is different than just overgrading a card, market grading would be done purposefully.
@pokeminnesota whoops, completely missed your point, sorry. Donāt know anything in regards to your actual question, sorry.
Understandable considering Iām not completely clear on my point, either 
Thanks for your reply, I do think it has relevant points!
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I have one more order received 3/25/21 Regular Tier that has not been entered into the system at PSA. Otherwise everything has been entered. Does anyone have orders not entered into the system received before March? Curious to gauge where PSA is at relating to data entry on the backlog.
CGC bulk is now at 211 business days, or 42 weeks. At this point, theyāre rapidly sliding into PSA turnaround times
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How can they even give an estimate that has any kind of validity to it at this point? I get that theyāre trying given the info that they currently have, but once you get into the hundreds of business days realmā¦just seems kind of reckless to put a number on it.
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Yeah, itās really too bad. My bulk from 1/4 just hit scheduled for grading, will probably be the last bulk sub I send until one of the 3 gets their TAT under control.
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Yep at this point Iām more than willing to wait it out with PSA, any advantage CGC had (turnarounds and pricing) is long gone
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Seems that way for anything except walkthrough/express. Even then I have a walkthrough received 3/14 that still is still in grading/qc. Quite disappointing, I must say. Guess itās back to binder sets only.
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Iāve definitely been moving more towards binder sets and cards already graded. It takes me back doing binders! Something so satisfying about them
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My walkthrough submission received 4/14 has finally shipped, hooray! Canāt wait to see what grade my mew got
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Good luck with the grade! Absolutely insane that Walkthrough takes ~3 weeks imo.