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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: Joe Jones
Does anyone have any experience sending cards from a vending box to be graded? Does the curve of the card make it ungradeable or affect the grade? |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: Anonymous
it's not so much the curve but more the corners. the box themselves offer little protection and the corners often get dinged. |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: Mark
The curvature of the card itself is not an issue. But you'll need to keep an eye out for damaged corners and occasionally edges. You also need to be careful not to cause too much surface damage when sorting, as cards tend to stick together. Lift rather than swipe each card from the card below to avoid surface scratches. |
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Posted By: Joe Jones
Thanks for the info Mark, it was very helpful. |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: dodgersin9
This was my response to a different thread on best unopened finds- |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: Paul
I have a dumb question. What was the purpose of a vending box? Weren't these boxes of 500 or so loose cards? What was a retailer supposed to do with them? |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: Randy Trierweiler
Paul, vendor boxes is what the early card dealers bought directly from Topps. They would get cases of vendors and put sets together and sell singles from them. Randy |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: DD
The cards were also put into vending machines, at least up until the mid to late 60's. |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: davidcycleback
Mastro sold a lot of Frisch's vending boxes and I heard (rumor) that they didn't all grade well. Beyond wear, coming from vending doesn't mean perfect centering. Though vending can produce high grade cards. Since the boxes are unsealed, the rule is to buy vending from a reliable seller. |
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Cards from Vending and grading
Posted By: Dave Hornish
I remember buying a box of 75 vending from Renata Galasso in 1975, so some dealers sold them to the public. I also remember buying cards from 5 cent vending machines. In 1972, after Gil Hodges died his card was the most sought after one in the set. I used to get most of my cards at a local toy and hobby store called Coronet (Westbury, NY-a great store when I was a kid, long gone now) and could not find one in a pack (and I used to buy rack packs) for anything and finally stuck a nickel in a vending machine and lo and behold ol' Gil was there. |
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