As a relatively new collector of tickets, as with cards, I want ALL of my tickets slabbed. They are just worth more, and i like to know that someone has opined they are real; not that the TPGs are always right. And, for me and tickets, its pretty much PSA or bust; I know BVG slabs tickets but I am very down on their flips, I feel they are barely better than GAI.
I will buy raw tickets, but I will then have them slabbed. As with cards, If you care about value, slab them.
One side story - I was recently bidding on a ticket that was apparently from the Beatles first performance on the Ed Sullivan show. It was raw. PSA would not grade it because its not entirely clear/certain its real and/or from that show. I was willing to risk $X and someone was willing to risk one increment more than I, but the ticket sold for probably 25% what it would have gone for in a PDSA slab. This is true of alleged 1903 WS tickets and other tickets that lack the date and/or clear indicia that a certain ticket was for a certain event.
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