re: What is another sports card grading service?

So I have a mint condition Cal Ripken rookie card… never had it graded but it’s perfect.

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So I have a mint condition Cal Ripken rookie card

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no you don't

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never had it graded but it’s perfect.

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no it isn't

I remember about 3 years ago looking at eBay and seeing Jordan and Brady autograph cards going for under $500. I was so close to pulling the trigger but I said meh. Damn should have could have and DIDN’T

oh well life goes on. I have some great cards but no way I am buying a Brady or Jordan auto now.

I have no idea how I even found this thread. I was randomly google searching something card related and this thread generated as a result lol.

They are working through the backlog. PSA was up to $300 minimum at one point to grade one card. Now they have a $50 service level open. So it’s been getting better overall. A bunch of decent options out there for not that much money.

HGA gets a lot of hate, but they have started to do horizontal slabs for your horizontal cards. It’s like $40-$50 bucks to get one of those, but if you have a horizontal PC Card you want to display, more than a random card you want to grade and flip, it’s not a bad idea from a collecting standpoint.

I've looked at doing a horizontal slab with them, but their labels are God awful imo

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The entire industry is a shite show right now.

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This is correct.

And for all things that Wall Street touches, they make money on the initial runup, inflate the value of the entire market, take the money from the late arriving suckers and bail before the whole thing goes tits up, leaving the "regular folks" to take a bath.

2020 was the first two steps.

2021 was the third step, and we're rapidly entering the fourth step.

Print runs for 2022 product is through the roof, so we're clearly in the Junk Wax 2.0 era. Cards are being sold everywhere, like they were in the 80s.

PSA graded 13,000 basic-arse Zion Hoops rookie cards.

Boxes of basic-arse product like Donruss football, Hoops and Topps F1 are $3-4-500 per box.

For reference, prior to 2020, every year in November, I would buy products like this from Dave and Adams and open boxes of stuff over Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Boxes of soccer product that I was buying 3-4 years ago for $20-40 were/are selling for hundreds or thousands.

It's all going to come crashing down.

My money has been on the sidelines for the past couple of years. I'll jump back in once everyone with a parachute has jumped out and people who don't have lost their arse.

On the bright side, at least people aren't fighting in Target parking lots for product anymore.

I don't post there. I don't post anywhere (really) to talk tHobby.

That's insane

Yea they look sweet, but no auto or rookie? I would understand if it was either one of those