Psa grading and pricing

[GasHouseGang]

The BCCG grading isn't the same as regular PSA, Beckett, or SGC grading from what I understand. You can look on the website, but I know I wouldn't trust the grade on a BCCG slabbed card as much as the others.

I went and looked it up. This is the short version from the Beckett website:
BCCG-graded cards (Beckett Collectors Club Grading) are completely separate and vastly different from the premium BGS- or BVG-graded cards. We can assure you that the same consummate care in handling is followed and consistent industry-leading quality of grading is applied to each and every card. As a result, BCCG-graded cards provide an eye-catching secondary market alternative to other graded card products, reaching a wider audience of fans and collectors. It features a modified numerical grading scale, with each level representing a range of standard conditions (Mint or better, Near mint or better, Excellent or better, etc.).

The BCCG service does not offer the four category (corners, centering, edges, and surface) break down on the backs of each of the cards. The BCCG service also does not have the half point grading scale which you see in the regular grading services - it is a more simplified grading scale that offers whole point grades only. The cases for BCCG cards are thinner than the BGS/BVG cases and there is no inner sleeve in which the card placed in before being inserted into the holder. Please be assured that our regular graders do grade all BCCG cards so you will be getting a professional Beckett Grading Services opinion from a qualified Beckett grader.

[ALR-bishop]

I do not hate graders or graded cards. I just prefer my cards ungraded. But, for me it is just a hobby. If it was an investment or part of my income or estate planning, getting cards graded would be probably be necessary at this point in time.

[Exhibitman]

Graded cards have their place in the market. I like the ease of sale of a graded card, I like how some cards look in their holders, and it sure makes it easy for laypeople who have to sell cards--like all our heirs eventually--to know what they have and deal with it. Fake price data, however, is worthless and has no place in the market.

[steve B]

If they're comparing BCCG to PSA they're not getting it.

But psa 9 Younts while not exactly all that tough (currently 167 of them out there) They do sell for a bit.

Some actual results posted here by PSA
http://www.psacardfacts.com/CardDetail.aspx?item=35512

$428 to $607, the highest one and most recent in 2011.

So if it really should be a 9 they're not all that far off.

Of course, an 8 is just about as nice, and lots cheaper. And an nice "NM" one ungraded would be cheaper still.

Steve B

[sox1903wschamp]

Pure: I like it. Going to start using it.