Your Collecting Thoughts on Grading Companies

[Mbjerry]

I know grading companies have been discussed ad nauseam. Not really looking for pros and cons type discussion. What I am curious on is your own personal collecting habits. Only PSA? Only SGC? Mix them up and only care about the card? I thought I only cared about the card but lately it has been bugging me to have different size/type/color slabs in my collection. Trying to get over this and wondering what others think. If you do have a mixture how do store and organize them? All together? By date and set? Separate by grading company? My OCD is getting to me on this. Only a year into my vintage collecting and trying to align on a strategy. Thanks for sharing your approach.


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[mikemb]

I only have a few graded cards in my collection. About half are Beckett and half are SGC. Don't like PSA. Never have, never will.

Most of my graded cards are in a display case. I'm a binder/set guy and the graded cards are in 4 pocket pages in the front of the binder in card number order.

Mike

[GasHouseGang]

I have a mix, but I do wish they were all the same company, just to look nicer. But ultimately it's about the card, not the holder.

[Casey2296]

I like all my pre-war in sgc holders, post war looks better in Psa holders but I have a mix of both in my post war.

[Mike D.]

My spreadsheet tells me I have 810 graded cards. 809 of them are PSA. I have one Beckett...just couldn't leave it there for the price. I prefer to stick with PSA for consistency/resale value, but if the price is right, I'll buy the card not the holder for sure. In fact, I have a bid in right now on a lot of 9 graded cards from a non-PSA grading company. We'll see if the bid holds!

[rugbymarine]

I have ~125 graded cards.
- 80% PSA
- 20% SGC
- No other companies right now...not because I'm opposed to them. For what I collect (mostly 50s-70s baseball), I just don't see very many CSG and Beckett.

Like it or not, PSA is king of the market. Both in terms of number of cards out there and resale value. I don't focus on resale value, since I'm a collector-first. Any card I purchase I generally intend to own for a long time.

FWIW, I think the newer SGC holder (tuxedo) does an excellent job of presenting cards of almost any era.