re: Has this quarantine gotten anyone else interested in sports cards?

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Please don't ship anything in a PWE. Would you want to get a card in a PWE? If you must ship in a PWE, at least add some cardboard to both sides of your card for added protection. I don't trust the postal service to not mess the cards up. PWE is too risky IMO.

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If it's a $3-5 card like he said, the toploader is enough. You're not doing much with that card outside of tossing it into a binder, or for Pokemon and Magic actually using the card.

Most standard rookie cards I buy come in a standard envelope, but any auto/jersey/sp card I've gotten have always come in a padded manila envelope.

I mean, I have done probably a thousand orders over the years, and there have been zero problems with PWE and a toploader. Will do absolutely no damage to the card.

You're wasting money shipping low value cards in bubble mailers

Edit: anything I sell on eBay I ship in eBay in a bubble mailer since you can't trust any buyer on there

BGS is a flat out dirty company
PSA is a dirty company that has regraded thousands of trimmed cards that had been previously graded

Grading is a scam

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It's the only verifiable way to sell a card tbh, and it guarantees its authenticity and it's the only verifiable way to show its condition

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The rabbit hole you need but didnt deserve haha part 1

And anotha’ one

anddd anutha one

oh hai.. how is it go?

PSA insider? Might have to see...

And my favorite of all so far.. this behemoth ... it’s big time so buckle in and pour somethin strong
Whattup BGS.. Whattup Mr Clemons


There are literally scores of threads in every sports’ sub topics on that board and plenty of other boards, podcast, sites including ESPN articles etc.

This is a great starting point though for those of you who are interested in grading.

I WILL say I own graded cards and slabbed cards look fantastic.
However I have not bought any in a while

I never submitted cards for grade before but was curious because I have 2 Super Bowl XX full tickets that are in great shape (Bottom stub is completely intact on both). eBay has the graded listed significantly priced higher then non graded. Just wondering if I should submit the tickets and a few cards and see what happens.

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Just wondering if I should submit the tickets and a few cards and see what happens.

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What cards you looking to get graded? I can see if my PSA middle man does tickets, but he charges $15/card and that includes a pre-screening. So if he pre-screens a lower grade on a card you sent in, you can choose not to submit it to PSA and keep it raw.

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So Barracuda, since the Cowboys are kinda my second team, you mind sending that Lamb auto my way? I know you're good for it

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Man I just sat here and read every page. I have definitely got back into it myself. Right now it’s hard to even walk around in the room without knocking over a stack of cards. I’m trying to go through about 200,000 or more cards. Pulling out decent rookies and so forth. You can pass a day away quick if you start sorting when you wake up and before you know it the suns going down lol. I feel like the caveman meme “what year is it “ after a few days.

Besides the tons of cards I’m going through now, I also came across a couple boxes of 90 upper deck baseball while I was going through stuff. 2 boxes of 91 score football. 1 or 2 boxes of 91-92 upper deck basketball, a box of 92-93 Topps basketball, a bunch of 90 skybox inaugural edition basketball, packs of 92 leaf baseball, packs of 13 Baseball Triple play, packs of 86-90 Topps baseball, 91 fleer basketball packs, 90 Bowman baseball packs, 90 fleer football packs, 08 upper deck baseball packs, 90 hoops basketball packs, 91 Bowman football, and I forgot the other basketball packs I found. There around the same era. Crazy what you can find.

I’ve been selling pretty good in different groups on Facebook and a couple on feebay. I may start doing some hot packs. I supply a few people on Facebook with there staxx games. I don’t have a lot of high end stuff though. Baseball I pc Acuna, Riley, Freeman, Frank Thomas, and any Cubs. Football is any Ole Miss player, any Mannings, and Favre. Basketball is Lebron mainly just for a return later down the road for him. I’ve got one 1/1 left that I believe I’m gonna let go. It’s a sweet rpa printing plate with a nice patch and auto on plate of Hakeem Butler. I got it because I was gonna start collecting him but decided to go with others. But I’ve been doing pretty decent selling lots on Facebook. I just got into my first break the other day and now it’s like some dope head needing a fix ha. I’ve been in 4 now in a couple days but haven’t hit anything worth mentioning so I’m trying to ween myself off and focus back on selling and trading. It’s definitely something enjoyable.

ETA. Also I wouldn’t mind talking with you more about getting some stuff graded. Like if you could send in a few if I decide to do it. Not a bunch. Just some to send like when someone else may be sending an order.

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but a PSA 10 is easier to get than a BGS 9.5 and worth more. It's dumb. The Beckett slabs are so much better looking too it's absurd

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This is such a terribly spread fallacy. Beckett has tons of off graded cards as well, but they don't do nearly the volume as PSA so you don't hear about it as often.

Also, the general rule of thumb is a QUAD 9.5 equals PSA 10

a good video that sums up the PSA conspiracy theories

Hey guys anyone know when the next series of cards from other companies will be coming out? I want a Joe Burrow autograph with a swatch of a LSU jersey included. I know they usually start coming out after the NFL draft.