[FrankWakefield]

Think of the cards that could be bought with the money spent on getting cards graded. And add to that pile of cards a vacuum in your consciousness where the angst, worry, anticipation, and frustration associated with dealing with the card graders once was.

Or think about fewer cards and more anxiety and stress...


If any of the big graders with slab machines offered to come to my home, at my convenience, sit in the back yard with me and all of my cards and stuff, and to grade everything I could put before them, right there on the spot, and it'd take 30 minutes to get it done, all for a fee of $5... I'd decline that offer. I value my 30 minutes and my $5 bill more that their plastic and opinions.

I cannot comprehend you guys paying PSA or SGC thousands of dollars. And I'm sure my thought processes or lack thereof don't make sense to some of you.


I have a T206 Cy Young in an SGC slab that I've not broken out. The slip says it's a Sweet Caporal, but when the slab is flipped over there's a blue Piedmont back. Did they just screw up and check they wrong box on one of their forms? Or are two cards stuck together? Or what?? If I had bought that card ungraded then I'd know what I have. With it in the slab I'm not sure of what I have there. And I'm not sure about you guys spending thousands of dollars or more for someone else's opinion of what you have.

Maybe next time you're thinking of sending a bunch of cards somewhere to be graded, get more clarity of how they will bill you at varying stages, or take that grading money and buy a few more cards (cards you'll get in hand way sooner than a grading company could be done with you).