I’m doing some informal research here, and as the title suggests—what cards have seen your largest value increases after grading or time passing? Whether it’s from an actualized sale, recent sales history, or simply your own expectations, I’d love to hear about your experiences.
I understand that discussing value isn’t the only aspect of this hobby, and there’s no shortage of “invest bros” who are only in it for monetary gain. However, many of us still find the topic of value appreciation interesting, especially when it comes to graded cards!
With that in mind, please share:
Card name/information
The price you paid for the raw card (or if you pulled it yourself, feel free to mention that)
Resulting grade and the value/increase in value. If it is pop 1 with no other sales, you can mention recent relevant sale prices.
Where you acquired the card (if not pulled)
Service level used with the grading company
Number of cards in the grading order
Number of previous submissions with the grader
Questions 5 - 7 are meant to dive deeper into the psychology of grading high-value or desirable cards at specific companies.
To many questions but I just popped in to say I pulled the latios latias alt art from team up out of a $1 dollar store pack. Sent it in and got a 10. It’s worth like $2200 right now so at least a $2100 profit for me
No worries, the questions are mostly all optional for the thread and simply there to glean extra information from this topic!
Thanks for your reply! This is exactly the type of information im interested in basically! What card, what you paid, the resultant grade/value. Thanks!
Probably my best post-Covid example, bought this Kyogre in 2021, submitted in Economy which I believe was the $50/card tier and only one PSA had open at the time and had lottery spots for 5 card orders. I have 40+ individual PSA submissions at this point!
All three PSA-10 (even though I was expecting two 10s and a 9 for the Acerola).
All three on eBay. Guzma from one seller, Acerola + Lillie from another seller.
Standard, through middleman service LudkinsCollectables UK. Total costs of grading + shipping back to me were 125.40 GBP (163.28 USD with the conversion rate at the time). And despite the 10s, I didn’t had to pay any additional grading fees later on.
One. I’ve only graded with PSA (through Ludkins UK) two times. (And I’ve graded once with BGS through a Swedish middleman, and once with PCA through a French middleman. Never graded anything else personally.)
Not sure about their values right after I received them back from grading (which was roughly 3.5 months after I had send them in).
I did sell the trio for 150,000.00 USD in mid-2023, through. So I’d say quite a big value increase. An increase of 146,306.72 USD to be exact.
Im still amazed when I see this and also so happy for you because that is an amazing amount of increase that I hope it continues to help your life out.
Graded it in OCT 2022 and it received a PSA 10. It was about a $200 card in a PSA 10 at the time. I sold it during the Waifu surge in June 2023 for $4500 in auction on eBay via consignment.
Purchased from eBay.
It was one of the bulk specials at the time.
There was about 25 cards in the order. It was a mix of modern and vintage.
I’ve submitted about 4 orders to PSA prior to this one.
according to ebay and a famous Pokemon collector.
my value increase is $447,000 (if that famous collectors sells)
submitted 144 cards to PSA.
cost is about $2500 (most of the cost were to grade / upcharges.
One that comes to mind from last year was the glossy CoroCoro Jirachi, Bought for about £8, graded a 10, sold immediately to a Chinese buyer for £400. Not easily replicable, most raws you find will be damaged in some way, and the 10 is tough on glossy coros. My best to date was a 1st ed Neo Lugia, bought raw for £150 in 2019, graded a 9, sold for £4.2k in 2021.
The issue I see with the thread is that most of the big value differences are more to do between comparing time point A → B than going from ungraded → graded.
I have a few examples I could share but most of them are because I bought the card raw and waited a few years before grading.
An increase of 146,306.72 USD to be exact.
I know where I’m going to for my card speculation advice.