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steve yawitzI guess it goes without saying, but ultimately you'll have to answer the question yourself, but as a fellow limited-budget collector, I'd recommend against submitting your low-end commons.
I used to submit just about everything in my collection to PSA because I enjoyed the Registry for its checklist-like aspect and its image hosting. Not to mention the fact that I can be totally neurotic about conistency, which is odd because I'm really sort of a neo-hippie slacker when it comes to non-collecting behavior.
But I've since stopped submitting to PSA, delisted almost all of my cards from the Registry and have even cracked out a lot of my stuff from their slabs. In hindsight, it was probably incredibly foolish submit commons that were no better than 3's. At that condition level you're not really adding much "value" by slabbing, so you're basically paying PSA for a small amount of file space and an online checklist. At $10-15 a pop, I don't think it's really worth it. And I have much more fun maintaining my own site, which basically costs me per year about the equivalent of two or three cards submitted to PSA.