Future of Grading - CSG and HGA

[Exhibitman]

Since they print the flips anyway, wouldn't it be fun to have team color flips? Send in a Lakers card and you can get it with a purple and gold flip.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Since they print the flips anyway, wouldn't it be fun to have team color flips? Send in a Lakers card and you can get it with a purple and gold flip.

If it is done right that could look really good. Maybe you should go into marketing

[scmavl]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Since they print the flips anyway, wouldn't it be fun to have team color flips? Send in a Lakers card and you can get it with a purple and gold flip.

Like exactly what HGA does? I think, while it should look okay in theory, it looks amateurish, cheap, and messy in practice. My two cents.

[prestigecollectibles]

I saw this posted on Twitter

[Tabe]

Originally Posted by scmavl

Like exactly what HGA does? I think, while it should look okay in theory, it looks amateurish, cheap, and messy in practice. My two cents.

I would like that flip a lot more without the fire/smoke/mist cloud on the right. Just leave that side with a black background.

[Johnny630]

If and when Value/Bulk Comes back I expect a much higher price point. In the $40-$50 range would be my guess...the really don’t have much of a choice.

[toledo_mudhen]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

If and when Value/Bulk Comes back I expect a much higher price point. In the $40-$50 range would be my guess...the really don’t have much of a choice.

No Choice? Really?

It appears to me that PSA has become the Elite Service for Elite Collectors with Elite Cards.

That's not me - So I'm pretty much done with them.

That last PSA bulk submit where we waited fully 1 year for return on the cards and then the subsequent ridiculous price increase has completely "cured" me.

CSG has a ridiculous flip that I know was brought to their attention early on by many people (including Net54 members) yet they don't even acknowledge it as an issue.

The HGA flip does nothing but annoy me.

Not sure why these newcomers feel it necessary to completely "reinvent" the wheel. A company that would have come out with flip of PSA and slab of SGC would be well poised to take a run at dominating the market.

I will continue to be a buyer of PSA and SGC slabs until such time as sellers are forced into significantly raising prices simply because of the slab costs.

Hell, I even find myself looking at cards in old GAI slabs these days.

$8 to $10 per card - no problem
$30 to $40 per card - no way

Just my 2 cents....

[Johnny630]

IMO PSA offers the most liquidity for there cards past, present, and future.

Other grading companies might but good but they're never going to bring what a PSA Graded Card Brings.

[GasHouseGang]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Since they print the flips anyway, wouldn't it be fun to have team color flips? Send in a Lakers card and you can get it with a purple and gold flip.

I kind of felt like they did that on this Larry Bird I picked up of B/S/T from the board.