The Grading Thread (PSA, BGS, SGC, CSG, HGA, ETC, ETC)

[Skills]

Take my advice with a pinch of salt because I'm not an investor and I don't grade...but 99.9% certain, for resale value PSA is the clear leader.

Thanks. Pretty much whatever I have read is leading to the same conclusion!

Never sent one off for grading before, is it worth just sending the one card over or wait till have a little stack and send over in bulk?

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

A newby getting back into the game after so many years. Have a question on grading and more so local graders vs PSA and BGS.
I bought a card thats been graded by TCG as a 9. For resell value, is it better to get it regraded by PSA or BGS? Or given we mostly sell to local market it doesnt really matter?

for resell value it's definitely PSA then BGS at the moment.

people also have their own preference and usually go with an AUS company for a small piece of mind when selling as it gives the buyer a pretty good of the card condition unlike if it was not graded and someone asked to return because it was in a worse condition than described etc

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

 

[Dodgydave]

The only surprising thing there is they identified anything as fake.

 

[ozsportscardcollector]

21 % fake. And possibly another 5% that they didn't catch but authenticated. It wouldn't shock me if 20% of all graded cards are trimmed, altered, counterfeited. The first two I can live with to some extent but a straight up counterfeit I couldn't.