New SGC grading fees

[Shoebox]

Originally Posted by bnorth

I have only directly submitted to SGC and they charge your CC as soon as they receive your cards. I personally think that is BS and they should wait till they are done with your order and they are mailing it back so they have actually earned the $.

How do the other companies do payments?

I know for sure SGC and Beckett charge as soon as the order is received. I imagine PSA does the same.

[Republicaninmass]

Originally Posted by Shoebox

I know for sure SGC and Beckett charge as soon as the order is received. I imagine PSA does the same.

Negative, psa charges when order is graded

[conor912]

I still don't get it. Do graders spend more time inspecting a $10,000 card than they do a $10 card? If they don't, why does it cost more?

[irv]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Gosh, grading high valued cards must be a lot more difficult.

Originally Posted by conor912

I still don't get it. Do graders spend more time inspecting a $10,000 card than they do a $10 card? If they don't, why does it cost more?

I asked exactly that early last year when we were talking about PSA's new price increases.

Someone did reply to state, due to insurance/shipping costs, and maybe a few other things, the price was justified because of the value.
Don't shoot the messenger.

Speaking of grading, I just posted in Post war and want everyone to guess which cards graded what and why?
Just having a little fun, but I also want some info to further gain some knowledge.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=235854

Thanks.

[Dpeck100]

Originally Posted by conor912

I still don't get it. Do graders spend more time inspecting a $10,000 card than they do a $10 card? If they don't, why does it cost more?

They realize they are handing you money and want a piece of the action. It seems pretty fair to me.

[Kenny Cole]

I had already been on hiatus from submitting to SGC due to a couple of other issues/concerns I had. This is bullsh*t IMO and pretty well cements my transition to PSA. Hope it works out for them, but I won't be contributing.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Kenny Cole

I had already been on hiatus from submitting to SGC due to a couple of other issues/concerns I had. This is bullsh*t IMO and pretty well cements my transition to PSA. Hope it works out for them, but I won't be contributing.

What are those issues/concerns?

My grades popped today and 109 of them seemed spot on but 10 of them seemed way off base. I am talking 3 to 4 grades off. Maybe I missed something but I highly doubt it, can't wait to get them back to look at again.

[ngnichols]

Anyone who pays a higher price depending upon what their card is worth is a sucker. The PSA/SGC argument is better than BVG is a crock of crap.

Anyone who knows who's really grading at BGS/BVG knows that Andy Broome does the vintage grading at Beckett and was a senior grader for PSA.

Anyone can go pull out horrible examples/mistakes by each company and use those extremes of why not to utilize that company.

Accuracy AND Consistency is where one should judge each company. The reason Beckett has gotten a bad rap is that they had previously put out they would grade a sheet-cut card so long that it measured up to the measurements set-forth by the card companies.

I would argue that quite a bit of the vintage I've submitted to BVG has been as good or better than PSA examples and has come back with lesser grades.

[conor912]

Originally Posted by Dpeck100

They realize they are handing you money and want a piece of the action. It seems pretty fair to me.

Ha. Wow. That would be like putting an addition onto your house and your contractor wanting a cut of the value the addition just added.

[Exhibitman]

Just never get cheated...

I bought this in a 2 holder, cracked and resubbed:

[irv]

Originally Posted by conor912

Ha. Wow. That would be like putting an addition onto your house and your contractor wanting a cut of the value the addition just added.

That's a much better example than the one I used to try to get the point across!

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Just never get cheated...

I bought this in a 2 holder, cracked and resubbed:

WOW!

I am curious what would/would have happened if you left that card slabbed?

Would have another TPG or Joe himself, asked the previous TPG what he was thinking or would the card remain a 2 as to not admit they screwed up?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by conor912

Ha. Wow. That would be like putting an addition onto your house and your contractor wanting a cut of the value the addition just added.

To be fully honest as a contractor for 20 years. We didn't want a cut of your addition. We did charge you more for the SAME EXACT addition if you have a 800K house compare to a 300K house.

[irv]

Originally Posted by bnorth

To be fully honest as a contractor for 20 years. We didn't want a cut of your addition. We did charge you more for the SAME EXACT addition if you have a 800K house compare to a 300K house.

Is that a typo where you meant to say "We didn't" or did you purposely charge more because you knew the people with the $800,000 dollar house likely had more money?

[Shoebox]

Originally Posted by Republicaninmass

Negative, psa charges when order is graded

Good to know.

[Bruinsfan94]

Really would be cool if these companies would be more transparent. You think that would be important in a hobby like this. How does one even become a card grader? Are there any former or current graders on this fourm?

[pokerplyr80]

Originally Posted by Bruinsfan94

Really would be cool if these companies would be more transparent. You think that would be important in a hobby like this. How does one even become a card grader? Are there any former or current graders on this fourm?

I wouldn't count on any current graders publicly acknowledging their position on a forum. Imagine the PMs they would get with cash incentives to bump a card.

As for the SGC prices my guess is the higher rate is due to the risk of damaging the card. But the chances of me sending a 10k plus card before the fee increase to SGC was very low. I would put them at just above 0 now.

[ngnichols]

Originally Posted by pokerplyr80

I wouldn't count on any current graders publicly acknowledging their position on a forum. Imagine the PMs they would get with cash incentives to bump a card.

As for the SGC prices my guess is the higher rate is due to the risk of damaging the card. But the chances of me sending a 10k plus card before the fee increase to SGC was very low. I would put them at just above 0 now.

The higher rate is because they are greedy like PSA.

I understand that me being able to walk in to Beckett and get a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle graded on the spot for $50 is an immense value, BUT charging someone $1,000 or whatever for the same process is an absolute ripoff and a joke. Where the happy medium is.....I don't know, but I know that I'm getting a better overall deal with price and turnaround time with Beckett being in my back-yard.