Help me decide.

[Vintagedeputy]

Originally Posted by BobC

Forgive me, but I don't even understand your response.

Grading isn't free, so that isn't even an option, or a pertinent variable to the OP's question. And personally, I still wouldn't see a need to get any cards in my own collection graded. Especially if I'm not looking to sell them, but know that if I ever do change my mind about that, then I'll have ones I'm going to sell graded for free at that time.

Meanwhile, as the OP going to keep all those cards in your personal collection, why waste the money to have them graded? There aren't any of those cards in really super-high condition. And it's not like you apparently just want only graded cards in your collection, otherwise you wouldn't even be asking the question and would have just gotten them all graded. And if you said that if nothing else, having them graded would also help protect and preserve the cards, that can easily be achieved with penny sleeves, top loaders, single screw-down cases, and so on, and for a heck of a lot less than grading fees. And as I initially said, the best thing of all is you can then spend the money you would otherwise have spent on grading fees and spend it something else you like or want, like more cards for your collection.

Again, you're trying to reason through this and ask why? The "why" of why I want to grade them is not important, the grading cost is not important, the cheaper options of protecting them are not important, the value after grading is not important to me.

What is important is this - If you had decided to grade all of these - for whatever your reasons may be - which 10 would you do first.

This really shouldn't be all that difficult.