Who's Cracking $250 Slabs?

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

I followed along with the original post through about the first half of it. Until the logic of suggesting that the folks who crack cards out of slabs are less likely to crack a card out when the cost to slab a card got to $250 a pop... For me, that's not much of a factor at all. When I break a card out it's because I don't want it in the slab. I'm not about to reslab it.

I have no intention to get a card graded at a cost of $250. But then I don't have any cards I'd get graded for $25... nor any I'd get graded for 25 cents. And not for 25 cents even if they'd come to my home or meet me at the bank with the ability to accept a card, grade it, and hand it back to me in 2 minutes or less.

For me, I'd rather spend that $250 on a few more cards. For folks who want everything graded, seems to me you'll have smaller collections and you'll be subject to the future whims of PSA and the like. Don't ya reckon?

My point was missed here. I'm looking for people who submit cards for $250 a pop. Under what conditions if any would they crack the slab. Granted slabbing is a sales tool, but the cost of playing the slabbing game has gotten too expensive for the majority of the TPG's customer base. There are a lot of crazy prices out there now, but the total number of 5, 6 and 7 figure cards is finite.

Yeah if you're selling cards for $80,000 a pop, $250 or more for a slab is chump change. And if the buyer plans to resell it for $120,000, by all means crack it out and enjoy it for a few months and resubmit it before you sell. With any luck you will get it back in less than a year.