How does CSG compare?

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by Lorewalker

They very well could be more consistent than PSA and SGC, grade fewer altered cards than SGC and PSA and maybe they even grade more accurately than SGC and PSA but the market barely accepts SGC who has been around a long time.

As has been suggested looking at completed auctions on ebay...and not just 1 or 2...will give you a good idea of what the discount is.

Perhaps also worth pointing out is that the discount varies by which sub-segment of the hobby you're looking at. With modern basketball and even 1986 Fleer, CSG is pretty much on point with SGC in terms of resale pricing, both of which are behind PSA cards of the same grade. However, if you could find a 41 Playball DiMaggio CSG 8 and the same card in an SGC 8 slab, you're almost certainly going to see a significant difference in the hammer price.

That said, some cards have provenance that can change that dynamic. The 52 Topps CSG 8 Mantle is an example. I think it's public knowledge at this point that that card was in a PSA 7.5 holder before CSG ran this marketing push for it in a CSG 8 holder. I suspect that hammer price will be fairly close to a PSA 7.5 as a result, since the buyer knows with high confidence that they could probably get it back into the PSA 7.5 holder fairly easily.