How Did I Do With These Regradings?

[p1ayba11]

Hi everyone, thought some of you might be interested to learn how this experiment turned out. I went into this buying the T206 WaJo, Cy Young, and Matty cards where I believed the grades weren’t doing them justice - two of the cards had MK qualifiers and the other I thought was just undergraded. After getting them regraded with SGC, I was a bit torn about keeping them or selling. I decided to sell all three and did so using the Fanatics Collect weekly auction. Their process worked smoothly and I feel I did every bit as well as with eBay or other auction options. Bottom line - after card costs, shipping, and grading I came out a little more than $400 ahead. Summary attached.

This was a fun experiment and I believe the cards as sold showed them in their best possible light. I am happy to have at least broke even and pocketed a few dollars but don’t know that I’ll try this again.

Thanks all.

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by p1ayba11

Hi everyone, thought some of you might be interested to learn how this experiment turned out. I went into this buying the T206 WaJo, Cy Young, and Matty cards where I believed the grades weren’t doing them justice - two of the cards had MK qualifiers and the other I thought was just undergraded. After getting them regraded with SGC, I was a bit torn about keeping them or selling. I decided to sell all three and did so using the Fanatics Collect weekly auction. Their process worked smoothly and I feel I did every bit as well as with eBay or other auction options. Bottom line - after card costs, shipping, and grading I came out a little more than $400 ahead. Summary attached.

This was a fun experiment and I believe the cards as sold showed them in their best possible light. I am happy to have at least broke even and pocketed a few dollars but don’t know that I’ll try this again.

Thanks all.

Nice post and appreciate you following up. $400 is better than a loss

I will say that I also believe market conditions may have affected these sales.

[StraightRaceCards]

Surprising that the Christy was the one with loss.

Good job and some great cards.

[puckpaul]

It is great to see that you can do better crossing from psa to sgc. I tend to buy either and focus on the card and price, but in some circles people say PSA is always better. With vintage that doesnt seem to be the case now. Of course, with the buyout of SGC by PSA, they will be one and the same going forward.

One question: when you send for regrading, do you just remove them from the case yourself first? Is that dangerous to maybe harming the cards maneuvering them?

Paul

[Kutcher55]

SGC loves their half grades. I wonder what % of SGC vintage comes back with a .5 in the grade? Gotta be soooo much more prevalent than PSA.

That trivial comment aside, those are some beautiful cards.

[raulus]

Congratulations on the outcome. Hopefully the $400 you cleared was worth your time and effort.

I'm not entirely convinced that we can really conclude that the SGC label made them more valuable, but for the SGC acolytes, I suppose they're always looking for anything that supports that result.

[Bigdaddy]

Originally Posted by Kutcher55

SGC loves their half grades. I wonder what % of SGC vintage comes back with a .5 in the grade? Gotta be soooo much more prevalent than PSA.

That trivial comment aside, those are some beautiful cards.

I just got a 22 card submittal back from SGC yesterday and 9 of them came back with half grades.

[JollyElm]

That's interesting about the SGC half grades. In looking back at the cards I have submitted, there are quite a few .5s in the various lots.

I certainly would've liked getting the grades 'rounded up' to the higher number in the binary choice of (for example) either an SGC 5 or an SGC 6, but it seems to be a more precise way of grading.

If the SGC standards say a card is less than a 6, but decently better than a 5, then it will land in a 5.5 holder. That's the right move.
Giving it 'only' a 5 instead would've been a crime against humanity (or against the collecting community, which is same thing)!!

[swarmee]

Originally Posted by puckpaul

One question: when you send for regrading, do you just remove them from the case yourself first? Is that dangerous to maybe harming the cards maneuvering them?

Most companies allow you to submit either in holder (as a "crossover") or cracked out as a raw attempt. Crossovers normally have a lower chance of getting an improved grade, because they cannot always evaluate a card in someone else's slab. For example, try evaluating an edge through a BGS slab. If you send a BGS-slabbed card to PSA looking for an increase or even the same grade, it's unlikely that PSA will agree unless they see the card outside of the holder. However, they will only break the holder if they are absolutely sure the card is deserving of the same grade or better (or whatever you list as min acceptable grade on your form).

As such, most submitters crack them out themselves and take the minor risk, in order to maximize their chance of getting a desired result.