SGC versus PSA slabs

[boneheadandrube]

Originally Posted by mantlefan

I was at the big Hofstra show today on Long Island. You're right....there was no waiting at the SGC booth.....there were no customers! Beckett on the other hand had a line of at least 15 people. Draw your own conclusions.

Follow the crowd! Follow the crowd! The conclusion I draw from that is marketing supersedes all else for some. How many of those people were getting pre war cards graded or were there to validate the authenticity of an autograph that a player just handed to them? To each their own, but I feel less stupid when I use my own common sense instead of a large company's turnstile judgement in a subjective matter.

[CMIZ5290]

Wow! I was wondering when someone was going to post a thread about this subject

[mantlefan]

Originally Posted by boneheadandrube

Follow the crowd! Follow the crowd! The conclusion I draw from that is marketing supersedes all else for some. How many of those people were getting pre war cards graded or were there to validate the authenticity of an autograph that a player just handed to them? To each their own, but I feel less stupid when I use my own common sense instead of a large company's turnstile judgement in a subjective matter.

Fewer customers = less income = cutting back on staff = less bells and whistles (check out the SGC Registry if you can find it) = eventual disappearance from the business world.

[NiceDocter]

Thanks to all who have replied and wow lots of food for thought. As I have done for all these years, another option is doing NOTHING and just keeping the cards raw.... I really doubt I am selling any time soon but your never know, you cant take em with you and if down the road someone needed to liquidate your holdings it might be easier on them if the cards were already graded. I probably should have said in my original post that I wasnt even considering grading low value cards, just the HOFers and the like. We do have JSA showing up at our local shows for autograph authentication but I have never seen a card grading company yet. Im not too keen on mailing stuff off but I guess thats the way of the world these days. In any event I very much enjoyed all your replies with some great insights and opinions.