What percentage of your collection is graded?

[John1941]

I have eight graded cards out of a collection of 40K or so, so approximately 0.02 percent.

[samosa4u]

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

I have binders full of "cheap" cards that I choose not to grade because TPG'ing is a scam...and a waste of money in many cases...and is no better than I at grading.

[frankbmd]

A decade ago I started a thread here focused on slabs that were graded, but were worth less than the cost of grading. An amazing number of junk wax era cards were slabbed. Grading didn't cost that much, but the overwhelming majority of those slabs were worth the cost of grading and are worth less today. Thank you PSA for creating your registry.

The era of junk slabs has been largely resolved though in part by PSA. They have simply raised their prices.

Aren't virtual monopolies wonderful?

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

A decade ago I started a thread here focused on slabs that were graded, but were worth less than the cost of grading. An amazing number of junk wax era cards were slabbed. Grading didn't cost that much, but the overwhelming majority of those slabs were worth the cost of grading, are worth less today. Thank you PSA for creating your registry.

The era of junk slabs has been largely resolved though in part by PSA. They have simply raised their prices.

Aren't virtual monopolies wonderful?

With PSA grading 1.5 million cards a month, I don't think that is resolved at all.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

Okay, you win lol

[rand1com]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

It is well worth the $2K to get it in a 1/1.5 PSA holder. It will have an immediate value in the holder that it does not have raw.

Even if you have no intention to sell, it is worth the dough in case someone inherits it at some point in time that has no idea of the value of the raw version.

Just one opinion of course but I would grade it in a minute at $2K.

[BioCRN]

500+ raw Mark Grace cards in a binder by year because that's one I really enjoy flipping through.

200+ raw Cubs autograph cards that are sitting in Card Saver II's that I can flip through. I generally break the autos out if they're slabbed.

200-ish other raw cards that I've either pulled, want to keep raw for one reason or another, or are "type example" collection cards so I have a reference that I can closely inspect+handle.

228 graded Cubs cards of HOF/greats/notables 1800s-current.

482 graded 1950-2011 HOF/greats/notables...used to be until 2001 for Pujols/Ichiro and around 2015 I decided that I needed to bump that up to 2011 to add Trout...it may change to 2020+ at some point.

I'm not going to count the raw cards which I plan to grade later (about a dozen) or other cards, raw or graded, that I'm planning on selling later and are only technically part of my collection.

Looking around a 60/40 non-graded to graded mix over here and I love all 5 of the main parts of my collection in their own way. All are easily flipped through and all are arranged in some kind of logical order within the specific collection.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Very true. Here's one of my cheap, raw cards. I'm not interested in spending $2000 to get it graded right now.

I am entertained by the fact that the value of a card is factored into the cost of an opinion on the card.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by samosa4u

If most of you (so far) selected 1-25 percent, then you must have cheap cards !!

Definitely correct for me.

For Prewar I have something over 1%. For Postwar, it is 0%.

The Prewar quite often looks somewhat like this:

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Brian

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Definitely correct for me.

For Prewar I have something over 1%. For Postwar, it is 0%.

The Prewar quite often looks somewhat like this:

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Brian

I didn't know we are showing off all our GEM MINT cards in this thread. Here is one of my favorites. Sadly even though it is in GEM MINT condition it is of a player I have never even heard of.