This Probably Won't Go Anywhere, But...

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Originally Posted by Delray Vintage

I don’t like having to grade cards. The reality is you need to if you want someone to buy your high value cards. I was burnt in the early days of my collecting finding many of my raw cards were trimmed, altered, or over graded. So now I only buy graded cards and am happy to do so. Eventually me or my heirs will need to sell the collection I have built. When that happens I know it will be a lot easier to get a fair price.

There will be no revolt against the grading companies. It is in high value collectors’ interest to use them.i don’t understand grading commons, reprints or many modern cards with massive supply.But if you have a 52 Mantle you have to get it graded given few ungraded pass the authenticity test.

Perfectly said and I couldn’t agree more! Too much fraud and bad people in our hobby nowadays to trust anything but graded cards when it comes to resale. I personally would rather collect raw cards however as mentioned above, the trimmed, altered, fake cards have forced my hand to only buy graded. When it comes time to sell, all I need to do is box them up and send them to a consignment company to sell for me then just wait for the check to come in! Can’t really do that with raw cards. Plus with raw cards what’s to say when our families go to a LCS to sell, some greasy fat owner won’t be like “ oh yeah, these 1950s cards are worth like $2 each. I’ll give you $100 for this lot! (I feel it’s better for heirs of cards to send in graded cards to a consignment service vs trying to sell raw cards to a LCS)