Posted By:
Al C.risafulli"I found that I got the best value for the SCD graded cards."
Public service announcement (sorry for the hijack) for anyone who may be unaware: Please note that there are two different SCDs.
The "old" SCD is the same SCD that publishes the weekly paper. Their grading was largely accurate, there are still cards in their slabs available on eBay, and they often do represent a nice value. The old SCD slabs can be identified because they have the SCD logo with the red circle.
Last year, SCD stopped grading cards and evidently sold their equipment to another company that also calls themselves "SCD Authentic", or something like that. Their slabs look virtually identical to the old SCD, except the circle is no longer red, and the company grading them is called "Sports Cards Direct", as opposed to "Sports Collectors Digest".
With the latter, I would proceed with caution.
-Al