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Lee BehrensI personally only grade cards I am willing to sell that I feel will grade at least VG/Ex. I am like yourself where I try to get the cards as reasonable as possible, I spend alot of time watching ebay so I have a good idea wheree to stop my bidding if I need to make money in the future. Almost all the cards I have had graded and sold have gained me a nice profit. My best example is a T206 Willis that I paid $30 for that graded SGC 50 VG/EX and received $150 for in an auction. I once bought a T206 PSA 2 for $14 and on the reasale I got $25.
My recommendation is not to slab unless you are going to resell, there are people out there that only buy graded cards and at a premium. I would have to agree about not getting commons graded unless they aree EX or better, can't justify the cost.
Lee