Can you accurately assign a raw card a 7 grade? How about an 8 or 9? How accurate were your "guesses" on the 103 cards that you submitted?
That is what you are paying for - a widely accepted 3rd Party opinion of the raw card that you send them and some validation of your ability to accurately assign a grade
I'm thinking :
1) It takes a long long time of looking at raw cards and the resulting TPG opinions before you can develop a fairly consistent eye.
2) TPG grading should probably reserved for raw vintage - I don't quite get the thought process of submitting common "shiney shit"
3) The difference in $ value between a vintage 7 and a vintage 8 is usually pretty significant.
4) Whether or not you intend to sell your collection is mostly irrelevant as at some point - someone is going to sell. If not you then most likely your immediate family.
I prefer to buy raw cards that I believe are under graded and thus under valued. Typically a 3rd Party opinion of those raw cards then gives me a way of sorta "keeping score".
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Lonnie Nagel
T206 : 172/520 : 32.8%
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