Scrub needing advice on a collection acquired.

Originally Posted by amullins

I apologize in advance, if I seem like a scrub. I haven't collected in years but have grown to want and learn more.

This weekend, the wife and I went to a known garage location that vendors sell all their crap. This one seller seemed to want to get rid of everything and stop the hobby all together, so I took advantage. The list below is by far the best cards I've ever seen card wise / look and feel.

1992 Topps Gold - Set Complete. Paid 10
1990 Leaf - Set Complete. Paid 10
1983 Donruss - Set complete. Paid 10 - growing trend?
1984 Topps - Set Complete
1988 Topps Football Set - Complete
1989 Bowman - Set Complete
1989 Upper Deck - Set Complete - Griffey standing nice and proud (off center but still gorgeous)

Also I bought a set of binders, four of them ranging from multiples to singles and sets in them. All below 1990s. One of the biggest pulls was the 1993 Jeter Gold rookie. I only paid 10 bucks for all the binders.

I have more, I just havent gone through it all. All in all I spent 290 bucks including the separate singles I rifled through. A pile of Yaz 60-70 cards - all looking gorgeous. Basically sat in a box for 40 years. Every card looks crisp, no broken corners that I can see.

My question is, should everything of value be graded?

Edit: This gentleman that I met earlier in the day asked if I wanted to see his personal collection. I very much wanted to see everything he owned and was overwhelmed when he said I could have everything 1984-1992. All major brands, all sets completed (not in factory sets, just complete). He offered everything free. I would say close to 500k cards.

Thanks in advance! Thanks for adding me!

lmk wanna get rid of the jeter gold

[amullins]

Originally Posted by psu

lmk wanna get rid of the jeter gold

It’s ungraded.. I want to get it graded most likely, it looks slick.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by amullins

It’s ungraded.. I want to get it graded most likely, it looks slick.

I would highly recommend picking out your 10 nicest cards and sending them in for grading. It will give you an idea of what really is a "slick" card. Unless you understand grading really well most people think cards that really grade a 6 or 7 are perfect.

[amullins]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I would highly recommend picking out your 10 nicest cards and sending them in for grading. It will give you an idea of what really is a "slick" card. Unless you understand grading really well most people think cards that really grade a 6 or 7 are perfect.

I was speaking to a card dealer today and he said "I'll never send cards into PSA anymore after touring the facillity". I asked him why and he was upset to tell me how the employees were only given an alotted amount of time to look at each card, a quota so to speak. Only allowed a certain amount of time to means they aren't taking their time grading our expensive products. Now I took that with a grain of salt.

Is their a bulk grading within forums?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by amullins

I was speaking to a card dealer today and he said "I'll never send cards into PSA anymore after touring the facillity". I asked him why and he was upset to tell me how the employees were only given an alotted amount of time to look at each card, a quota so to speak. Only allowed a certain amount of time to means they aren't taking their time grading our expensive products. Now I took that with a grain of salt.

Is their a bulk grading within forums?

PSA grading is a BLEEPING joke at best and always has been. Thing is a lot of very BLEEP people pay silly cash for their plastic slabs.

Every once in a while there is a group submission on this forum. Prepare for it to take MONTHS to get your cards back.

I would recommend sending what you believe to be your 10 nicest cards in yourself. It is a learning experience worth every cent. Even better ask the dealer what he would actually pay you for the cards you just bough.

[Promethius88]

Originally Posted by amullins

I was speaking to a card dealer today and he said "I'll never send cards into PSA anymore after touring the facillity". I asked him why and he was upset to tell me how the employees were only given an alotted amount of time to look at each card, a quota so to speak. Only allowed a certain amount of time to means they aren't taking their time grading our expensive products. Now I took that with a grain of salt.

Is their a bulk grading within forums?

I'm not saying that person is or is not full of crap, but I would be leaning on the side of "full of crap". PSA does not give tours of their facility or grading rooms. Them not being able to spend a lot of time on any one given card...of course is true. How could you go thru the millions of cards they do each year spending 10 minutes on each card? But there's plenty of other threads about their grading or lack there of.

[frankhardy]

I would definitely send in that Gold Jeter.