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Posted By: Julie

Two of the three fairly valuable cards I've sold recently were HAND DELIVERED by the buyers at shows to grading companies, to avoid the handling and risk of mailing services (any and all). In both cases, this involved a slight delay in submitting the card, and in one case submitting to a second-choice grader.

In one case (my card wasn't involved yet), of two grading companies working one show, the person chose the (judging from their presence at the show) less intelligent, less efficient and less knowledgable of the grading companies, because he thought it had a more lucretive name. It was only when this grading company started playing fast and loose with his money that he finally decided to switch to the lesser known company.

As far as I can see, the only excuse for getting a card graded IS "to protexct the card from myself." Now that makes a certain amount of sense.