Grading pins? Need help!

[Aaron Seefeldt]

So many of us say we will never sell our collections, or there are certain items we'll "take to the grave". Chances are none of us will actually be buried with our collectibles. And, before our caskets are even in the ground, our family members will be trying to sell everything we've left behind.

Do you want to leave them with more or less $$? Facts are facts and slabbed items get more $.

[oldjudge]

Aaron-You are ignoring the possibility that some of us may be donating a portion of our collections to public institutions. In such cases they will not go into the box with you and they also will not be sold. If that is not the case and you have a valuable collection the auction house that is consigned it after your demise will no doubt agree to bear the cost of grading better unslabbed items so, if that is the way to maximize realizations, then it will probably happen anyway even if you don’t do it yourself. If the auction house decides not to grade some items they are making the decision that it doesn’t make economic sense to do so. If you have a ‘52 Topps Mantle it will get graded. If you have a collectors grade 1960 Bob Cerv it probably won’t.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

So many of us say we will never sell our collections, or there are certain items we'll "take to the grave". Chances are none of us will actually be buried with our collectibles. And, before our caskets are even in the ground, our family members will be trying to sell everything we've left behind.

Do you want to leave them with more or less $$? Facts are facts and slabbed items get more $.

Just sayin'
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[BobC]

Originally Posted by Aaron Seefeldt

So many of us say we will never sell our collections, or there are certain items we'll "take to the grave". Chances are none of us will actually be buried with our collectibles. And, before our caskets are even in the ground, our family members will be trying to sell everything we've left behind.

Do you want to leave them with more or less $$? Facts are facts and slabbed items get more $.

Aaron,

Not disputing anything you're saying, but as Jay, I and others have mentioned, for some reason graded pins don't seem to bring the bumps in prices you'll see with raw versus graded cards. At least that is my experience. Now that can change in the future of course, but unless you have a truly outstanding pin that looks brand new and will likely grade better than a 7, I'm not sure the cost of grading will really be worth it. Especially for pins that have a little bit of honest wear and tear to them. Even then, I'd pretty much just restrict any grading to the superstar players.

Personally, I've never seen or heard of someone bragging about the Registry ranking of their pin sets/collections, certainly not like many people do for their card sets/collections. And let's face it, the Registry is a big contributing factor to why the pricing of some TPG graded cards is so much higher than for raw versions of those same cards. Just doesn't seem to be the same overall Registry influence pushing up graded pin prices.

[Aaron Seefeldt]

Graded cards get more $.
Graded photos get more $.
Graded naked ladies get more $.
Graded/authenticated autographs get more $.

Just a matter of time before all graded pins will get more $.

[oldjudge]

LOL, I like my naked ladies without plastic over them

[UKCardGuy]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

LOL, I like my naked ladies without plastic over them

Thank you. That made me laugh so hard.... Until my wife asked what was so funny. :-)

[MK]

I don’t know of any serious pin collectors who want them graded. And I hope that never changes.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

LOL, I like my naked ladies without plastic over them

Maybe they just slap a sticker on them somewhere.

[glchen]

PSA grades pins, and I've seen some pins in Beckett holders although they don't present nearly as well in their holders because they put them in a card-type holder rather than a coin-type one that PSA does. For PSA, you might want to check the population reports before you submit it as I've sent pins to PSA and had them come back unholdered as PSA didn't recognize that type of pin. Also grading is very expensive these days, and grading pins is the same price as cards so the minimum grading fee is at least $30 per pin right now. As others have said, it may be just be more worthwhile to keep the pins raw instead of sending them for grading.

[Vintagedeputy]

I like mine in a shadowbox.