PSA Confidence Buying?

[egbeachley]

Good luck on sharing the hobby with your son and hope it works. Everything I did failed and I ended up being a 50-year-old Pokemon expert instead.

[Anish]

Buying older slabs is TERRIBLE advice.

Just as many trimmed cards exist in old holders (and grading standards were looser then). It’s just easier to locate recent subs from trimmers.

The key is to do your OWN research. TPG’s are completely inpet - routinely slabbing altered and even counterfeit cards. But even a broken clock is right twice a day, as they say.

Research the cards/sets you care about (look at commons from the set, ask about provenance, and educate yourself on card doctoring).

Do that and you’ll already have more knowledge than the person who looked at the card for a minute.

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by egbeachley

Good luck on sharing the hobby with your son and hope it works. Everything I did failed and I ended up being a 50-year-old Pokemon expert instead.

Classic!

[MULLINS5]

I've been selling everything and going back to raw after about 20 years of PSA Platinum Memberships and subbing thousands of cards.

So far it's been FUN. No worries about crazy premiums. I also feel that I'm more educated now to spot problems with cards than I was 20 years ago.

I have a registry set I'm thinking of cracking out and displaying in a binder instead of slabbed and in a box. I'm about 25% into a ~400 card set and can't see myself mailing the rest to PSA. I do, unfortunately, have a sub there that I sent in before the sky fell.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by MULLINS5

I've been selling everything and going back to raw after about 20 years of PSA Platinum Memberships and subbing thousands of cards.

So far it's been FUN. No worries about crazy premiums. I also feel that I'm more educated now to spot problems with cards than I was 20 years ago.

I have a registry set I'm thinking of cracking out and displaying in a binder instead of slabbed and in a box. I'm about 25% into a ~400 card set and can't see myself mailing the rest to PSA. I do, unfortunately, have a sub there that I sent in before the sky fell.

Great idea? kinda hard to look at the cards in those fake slabs, huh.