What percentage of your collection is graded?

[parkplace33]

Interested to see the results!

Almost 90 percent of my collection is raw.

[Knightlax5]

My collection is 100% graded or will be graded. I work on sets within the PSA set registry, so it need them all PSA graded

[NiceDocter]

I have maybe 1% graded. That range of 1-25 is too large.

[tireolddawg]

10% of the cards but 90% of the value is graded

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by tireolddawg

10% of the cards but 90% of the value is graded

Same thing for me.

[obcbobd]

For my entire collection, I have 42, although a coulple of these will be cracked out over the next month or so. I estimate I have 20k cards, so that's .21%.

For pre WW2, I've about 1700 cards, 20 are graded or about 1.18%

[John1941]

I have eight graded cards out of a collection of 40K or so, so approximately 0.02 percent.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

I have maybe 1% graded. That range of 1-25 is too large.

Agreed. I have about 100 graded cards out of probably 40K+ so well below 1%.

[Neal]

Less than 10%

[raulus]

Originally Posted by tireolddawg

10% of the cards but 90% of the value is graded

Bingo. Not sure whether the standard here is just based on sheer numbers, or value. A gigantic mountain of raw junk wax goes a long way to tipping the scales without really being meaningful.

[samosa4u]

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

[aelefson]

I have zero graded cards/items and do not intend to own any in the future. My cards are not that valuable anyway, but I do have some decent photos and other items that I have no plans to grade. If I decide to sell any in the future, I might have to grade some but I will not until I am ready to sell.

Alan

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

I have binders full of "cheap" cards that I choose not to grade because TPG'ing is a scam...and a waste of money in many cases...and is no better than I at grading.

[bnorth]

I picked the 1-25% option but in reality it is more like .0001%. I have maybe 15-20 graded cards at the most.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

[mortimer brewster]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I picked the 1-25% option but in reality it is more like .0001%. I have maybe 15-20 graded cards at the most.

Same here

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

Definitely correct for me.

For Prewar I have something over 1%. For Postwar, it is 0%.

The Prewar quite often looks somewhat like this:

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Brian

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Definitely correct for me.

For Prewar I have something over 1%. For Postwar, it is 0%.

The Prewar quite often looks somewhat like this:

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Brian

I didn't know we are showing off all our GEM MINT cards in this thread. Here is one of my favorites. Sadly even though it is in GEM MINT condition it is of a player I have never even heard of.

[frankbmd]

A decade ago I started a thread here focused on slabs that were graded, but were worth less than the cost of grading. An amazing number of junk wax era cards were slabbed. Grading didn't cost that much, but the overwhelming majority of those slabs were worth the cost of grading and are worth less today. Thank you PSA for creating your registry.

The era of junk slabs has been largely resolved though in part by PSA. They have simply raised their prices.

Aren't virtual monopolies wonderful?

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

A decade ago I started a thread here focused on slabs that were graded, but were worth less than the cost of grading. An amazing number of junk wax era cards were slabbed. Grading didn't cost that much, but the overwhelming majority of those slabs were worth the cost of grading, are worth less today. Thank you PSA for creating your registry.

The era of junk slabs has been largely resolved though in part by PSA. They have simply raised their prices.

Aren't virtual monopolies wonderful?

With PSA grading 1.5 million cards a month, I don't think that is resolved at all.

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

Okay, you win lol

[Balticfox]

0%

[Big J]

If you count sets that I have in binders then I have about 5-10% graded. If its individual PC cards that aren't part of sets then it goes up to about 50% and I have them in showcases on the wall of my office/card room.

[BRoberts]

Can I receive a text alert when Jim Ingram posts?

[calvindog]

I think the better question is: what percentage in value of your collection is graded?

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by BRoberts

Can I receive a text alert when Jim Ingram posts?

No. While some boards have a "Follow User" feature which enables precisely that, this one does not.

[oldjudge]

Exactly (to Jeff's comment)! Do you mean the percent in volume or dollars? It could be a very different answer.

[nat]

By number of cards: about 5% (not counting boxes of junk wax that are probably still in my parents' house somewhere).

By value of cards: around 20-25%

[jingram058]

0%. Every graded card cracked out. Don't give one iota for slabs and someone else's opinion of my cards.

Also, if/when I croak, my wife and daughter know what to do...sell for whatever like card is worth, graded or otherwise. Someone wants to argue the point, then hang on to it, and tell them to have a nice day.

[skil55voy]

Originally Posted by mortimer brewster

Same here

Same here.

[bmattioli]

Probably around 2% but always wanted to get this one graded. Sent to me from my Father in 1986 while I was stationed Overseas..

[OhioLawyerF5]

Probably 10-20% for me. But I only buy graded cards when that's what's available. I have never sought out a graded card.

[cgjackson222]

Originally Posted by tireolddawg

10% of the cards but 90% of the value is graded

Originally Posted by perezfan

Same thing for me.

Me three. Although its probably closer to 99% of the value is graded for me, even if I have way more ungraded cards in total.

Hard to find extremely valuable raw cards, and I always find it a little risky when I do see them. In the back of my mind, I always wonder why they haven't been graded--what is wrong with them that I am not seeing....

[obcbobd]

Originally Posted by obcbobd

For my entire collection, I have 42, although a coulple of these will be cracked out over the next month or so. I estimate I have 20k cards, so that's .21%.

For pre WW2, I've about 1700 cards, 20 are graded or about 1.18%

I should add that all were bought graded, must broken out, some kept, but 0% were graded by me.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Exactly (to Jeff's comment)! Do you mean the percent in volume or dollars? It could be a very different answer.

Not for me. 0=0 regardless.

[JollyElm]

Don't have any idea based on percentages, but if the poll was structured around what portion of NEW buys were housed in slabs, for me, that number would eclipse 80-90% these days.

[rand1com]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

It is well worth the $2K to get it in a 1/1.5 PSA holder. It will have an immediate value in the holder that it does not have raw.

Even if you have no intention to sell, it is worth the dough in case someone inherits it at some point in time that has no idea of the value of the raw version.

Just one opinion of course but I would grade it in a minute at $2K.

[BioCRN]

500+ raw Mark Grace cards in a binder by year because that's one I really enjoy flipping through.

200+ raw Cubs autograph cards that are sitting in Card Saver II's that I can flip through. I generally break the autos out if they're slabbed.

200-ish other raw cards that I've either pulled, want to keep raw for one reason or another, or are "type example" collection cards so I have a reference that I can closely inspect+handle.

228 graded Cubs cards of HOF/greats/notables 1800s-current.

482 graded 1950-2011 HOF/greats/notables...used to be until 2001 for Pujols/Ichiro and around 2015 I decided that I needed to bump that up to 2011 to add Trout...it may change to 2020+ at some point.

I'm not going to count the raw cards which I plan to grade later (about a dozen) or other cards, raw or graded, that I'm planning on selling later and are only technically part of my collection.

Looking around a 60/40 non-graded to graded mix over here and I love all 5 of the main parts of my collection in their own way. All are easily flipped through and all are arranged in some kind of logical order within the specific collection.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Also, if/when I croak, my wife and daughter know what to do...sell for whatever like card is worth, graded or otherwise. Someone wants to argue the point, then hang on to it, and tell them to have a nice day.

I'm in full agreement with you on the point that graded cards are worth the same as ungraded cards. That's why I refuse to pay any kind of a premium for graded cards though typically sellers ask for a premium. I just say "No!" and go for a more reasonably priced ungraded card.

But of course there other collectors who may not balk at paying a premium for a graded card. We're all free to choose.

Hopefully therefore your wife and daughter love your cards as much as you do because if they insist on asking for the premium price at which an "equivalent" graded card just sold, they'll be keeping your cards for the long haul. Quite simply I know of no collector (including me) who's willing to be upcharged for ungraded cards.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

Don't have any idea based on percentages, but if the poll was structured around what portion of NEW buys were housed in slabs, for me, that number would eclipse 80-90% these days.

Still 0% for me.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

I'm in full agreement with you on the point that graded cards are worth the same as ungraded cards. That's why I refuse to pay any kind of a premium for graded cards though typically sellers ask for a premium. I just say "No!" and go for a more reasonably priced ungraded card.

But of course there other collectors who may not balk at paying a premium for a graded card. We're all free to choose.

Hopefully therefore your wife and daughter love your cards as much as you do because if they insist on asking for the premium price at which an "equivalent" graded card just sold, they'll be keeping your cards for the long haul. Quite simply I know of no collector (including me) who's willing to be upcharged for ungraded cards.

We just don't care. They're only cardboard. I don't care what some other compensated entity thinks of my cards. As stated, if someone doesn't see it that way, if they're only willing to pay if slabbed, oh well.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by jingram058

We just don't care. They're only cardboard. I don't care what some other compensated entity thinks of my cards.

I'm with you there! My cards need to be up to my standards not somebody else's.

Originally Posted by jingram058

As stated, if someone doesn't see it that way, if they're only willing to pay if slabbed, oh well.

And of course since they're only cardboard, hopefully you and yours don't ask for a king's ransom when selling.

[robw1959]

I have several complete vintage (pre-1972) sets composed of nearly two thousand cards, so no way am I grading all of that. Additionally, I have over 100 vintage (pre-1975) Hall of Famers that are each currently valued at around $100 or less, so no way am I grading those either. My graded cards comprise less than 5% of my total collection.

[CardPadre]

0% until I started a frightening experiment whereby I have a complete set of cards in the holder of a long-defunct grading company.

Using proprietary “Collector Camouflage by CardPadre”, I can very much enjoy the display of the set since the toxic visual pollution emitted by flips has been eradicated, but not being able to touch the cards is still a struggle in progress.

[DaveW]

I only have a handful of graded cards, but only because they came that way. I voted for 0 instead of 1-25 because I’m closer to 0% than 1%.

[pawpawdiv9]

For me-
Any t206 can be raw as well strip cards
However my “big heads” are all psa for registry
And any card over 2k probably will already be graded

[steve B]

No category for between 0 and 1%

That's where I'm at, a few graded cards, but compared to a fairly large collection not really very many.

[Rickyy]

My Complete Sets (Topps BB + couple of Basketball and Football sets) are all ungraded and in albums.

My type card collection is mostly slabbed but only accounts for about 25% or less when you count the total # of cards.

Ricky Y

[sreader3]

Originally Posted by tireolddawg

10% of the cards but 90% of the value is graded

^^^This.

[jethrod3]

Higher than 0 but lower than 1%. Much lower. Closer to 0.005%.