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Old 12-23-2006, 02:15 PM
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Default Percentage of Vintage Cards Slabbed in Hobby

Posted By: peter chao

Jim,

I don't believe that most of the mint Pre-War stuff has been graded.

Probably the serious investor has over 50% of his pre-war near mint cards slabbed.

However, the serious collector probably outnumber the serious investor by at least 2 to 1. The serious collector is probably waiting for the "fad" of grading to blow-over. So he has less than 50% of his near mint cards slabbed. Or possibly, he's waiting for SGC to beat out PSA in the grading wars. Who knows. Personally, I'm more likely to get a card graded at a show than sending it through the mail.

So, it's quite possible that the best has yet to be slabbed.

Peter

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