To me it also depends on just how nice they really are. I sent my Jeter rookies to SGC on a special, and they sold for about the same as any others graded 8. Probably roughly broke even compared to raw. If they'd made 9 it would have worked out better. Sending them to SGC if you're new to it is a good idea, especially if they fit one of the specials. You'll get some idea of just how good your eye for condition is. (Although I've sent in maybe 40 cards and still get puzzled by some grades. )
Whichever company you choose if you're doing it for resale take a long second look at what you want to send in and look at prices for that card in different grades. There's always a grade where the value of grading changes.
Sometimes the prices of a crard that's VG-EX is more raw since some people like to take the gamble on what it will grade.
So if a card looks like it might be VG-EX but someone likes it enough to think it's EX it might not be worth grading. The Jeters are a great example,93 Upper Deck 8s are about $10 Raw are usually 6-10. Sometimes less. So grading on a $5 special is basically a losing thing unless like me you got them for very little. But 9s are about double, 10s over a hundred. So it's probably a good gamble at a maybe $1 loss. But if it's got any problem at all it's much better to sell it raw. A beckett 6.5 sold for just over $3.
If you've got a good eye for grades you can do well, if not it might not be worth it. (except for the expensive stuff where even a not so good grade will do much better than a raw card that many will see as suspect -like a 52 Mantle)
Steve B
I do this with T206s, And I've had some really nice ones and a few failures- Ones that were either trimmed or in one case a very nice looking 3 that is a 3 because of a light crease. Still a nice looking card, just not one that would bump to vg-ex. Since I paid a VG price I figure it's ok. The upside is the couple raw cards bought for just under the usual VG-EX price that came back as 80s.
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