Grading pins? Need help!

[icollectDCsports]

Slabbing pinback buttons: Yuck.

[riggs336]

Display them.

[Aaron Seefeldt]

So many of us say we will never sell our collections, or there are certain items we'll "take to the grave". Chances are none of us will actually be buried with our collectibles. And, before our caskets are even in the ground, our family members will be trying to sell everything we've left behind.

Do you want to leave them with more or less $$? Facts are facts and slabbed items get more $.

[oldjudge]

Aaron-You are ignoring the possibility that some of us may be donating a portion of our collections to public institutions. In such cases they will not go into the box with you and they also will not be sold. If that is not the case and you have a valuable collection the auction house that is consigned it after your demise will no doubt agree to bear the cost of grading better unslabbed items so, if that is the way to maximize realizations, then it will probably happen anyway even if you don’t do it yourself. If the auction house decides not to grade some items they are making the decision that it doesn’t make economic sense to do so. If you have a ‘52 Topps Mantle it will get graded. If you have a collectors grade 1960 Bob Cerv it probably won’t.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

So many of us say we will never sell our collections, or there are certain items we'll "take to the grave". Chances are none of us will actually be buried with our collectibles. And, before our caskets are even in the ground, our family members will be trying to sell everything we've left behind.

Do you want to leave them with more or less $$? Facts are facts and slabbed items get more $.

Just sayin'
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[BobC]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

So many of us say we will never sell our collections, or there are certain items we'll "take to the grave". Chances are none of us will actually be buried with our collectibles. And, before our caskets are even in the ground, our family members will be trying to sell everything we've left behind.

Do you want to leave them with more or less $$? Facts are facts and slabbed items get more $.

Aaron,

Not disputing anything you're saying, but as Jay, I and others have mentioned, for some reason graded pins don't seem to bring the bumps in prices you'll see with raw versus graded cards. At least that is my experience. Now that can change in the future of course, but unless you have a truly outstanding pin that looks brand new and will likely grade better than a 7, I'm not sure the cost of grading will really be worth it. Especially for pins that have a little bit of honest wear and tear to them. Even then, I'd pretty much just restrict any grading to the superstar players.

Personally, I've never seen or heard of someone bragging about the Registry ranking of their pin sets/collections, certainly not like many people do for their card sets/collections. And let's face it, the Registry is a big contributing factor to why the pricing of some TPG graded cards is so much higher than for raw versions of those same cards. Just doesn't seem to be the same overall Registry influence pushing up graded pin prices.

[Aaron Seefeldt]

Graded cards get more $.
Graded photos get more $.
Graded naked ladies get more $.
Graded/authenticated autographs get more $.

Just a matter of time before all graded pins will get more $.

[oldjudge]

LOL, I like my naked ladies without plastic over them

[UKCardGuy]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

LOL, I like my naked ladies without plastic over them

Thank you. That made me laugh so hard.... Until my wife asked what was so funny. :-)

[BobC]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

LOL, I like my naked ladies without plastic over them

Maybe they just slap a sticker on them somewhere.