To grade or not grade for resale?

[jcmtiger]

Hello, I have some Detroit R314 Wide Pens and the R313 Gold Medal Flour Detroit set.

Should I get these graded before reselling? Is it worth it?

Thanks joe

[FUBAR]

I would say have them graded.....

[DaveH]

If you don't get them graded everyone will wonder what is wrong with them
that you didn't have them graded.

dh

[pclpads]

If they don't have pin holes or other major defects, by all means get them graded. W/ pin holes, SGC won't give you better than a 20, no matter how clean they are.

[jcmtiger]

Thanks for input, I will send them to SGC.

Joe

[timn1]

If they aren't all as nice as the Cochrane pictured, I wouldn't bother-- especially the R314s. These are not real big-ticket items even in NM -- anything less than EX would be throwing money away. Totally disagree with the poster who said that if they are ungraded everyone will assume there's something wrong with them.

Tim

[HRBAKER]

I agree with Tim. If these won't grade EX or better you are wasting your money I think especially with the R314s. There are plenty of raw wide pens in the hobby.

[albrshbr]

I'd have to agree with Tim and Jeff, it's not worth the money. Since these are oversized items you're looking at $20 each for grading.