Why and with conditions would you grade a card

[Rich Klein]

And please NO Comments about leaving cards raw --- for the purposes of this discussion we will presume that cards will be graded.



I was having a spirited discussion with a friend of mine yesterday about why he was preparing cards for grading:

His theorem was that as long as he hit a minimum grade required to goose up the value of the card significantly that was the primary reason to have a card graded.

My theorem was that as long as the grading cost was 15-20 percent of the card's value that the card was worth being graded. In my case, since I've been doing monthly shows and have been known to drop cards, I also wanted the extra protection

A third theorem is that to have easy ways to ID cards in case of theft, or other damages.

I'm sure there are other ideas -- but I'm interested in if you have submitted cards, the reasons there of. (And again, this is not designed to be a raw versus Graded discussion - that is an argument for a different day)

Regards
Rich