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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: James Feagin
I see that GAI is offering this service, and am curious as to what this means? Their website is horrifying and is endlessly confusing. |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
For $5 GAI will preview (or pre-grade) a card. |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: Bob Beyerle
I met some of the fellows from GAI today in San Diego at a card shop. They "pre-graded" a few cards. Basically looked at them and advised on what the grade would be. I agreed to have them slabbed and was fairly impressed by the service. Some examples: I had 5 70's HOFer's auto's authenticated. I had these cards signed in person and the authenticator immediately saw they were legit- These were cards I had signed as a kid almost 30 years ago. |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: James Feagin
OK, so they don't slab these cards at the show? |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: Judge Dred (Fred)
I was under the impression that a company that pre-grades them for a fee will place them in a top loader and adhere a label (with a quick grade cert) with adhesive to make it tamper resitant. Is this correct? I've seen a few SCD quick grades like this. I mean the original SCD not the new SCD. |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: Cobby33
I believe Beckett offers this service as well, calling it "rock hard review" or something like that. It's good for the modern stuff, as you may not want something graded that won't get a 9 or a 10. |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: edacra
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis
I forgot to mention in my 1st post here....I do not recommend the "verbal" preview, |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: jackgoodman
As someone above opined, it may be in GAI's interest to offer a higher pregrade in order to obtain the extra business, but that has not been my experience. I've always felt the pregrades I received from them were correct and even tended towards the conservative. Exactly the opposite of what you would expect if they were just looking for additional income. |
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What is a pre-grade service?
Posted By: warshawlaw
At a show where I had a question about a card's alterations. The dealer and I agreed to let GAI have a look, the card came back trimmed (as I suspected) and the dealer refunded me. Then he put the card back in the case to dupe the next idiot. |
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