Grading costs as part of card's value.

[midmo]

To me personally it actually lowers the value. I would rather purchase an ungraded $50 set than graded because of the time it takes to crack them out (don't have the space nor desire to store tons of low value graded cards). I spent a couple hours last week releasing some 1953 Topps so I could put them in my binder and it's kind of a pain in the arse. Just keep in mind that you could have a really nice $800 card in addition to that $50 set.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by midmo

To me personally it actually lowers the value. I would rather purchase an ungraded $50 set than graded because of the time it takes to crack them out (don't have the space nor desire to store tons of low value graded cards). I spent a couple hours last week releasing some 1953 Topps so I could put them in my binder and it's kind of a pain in the arse. Just keep in mind that you could have a really nice $800 card instead of a $50 set.

Same here...

Even though it's relatively easy to crack them out, I am still nervous every time I do it. Much prefer buying them raw to begin with. But inevitably, sometimes the card you want resides in one of those ugly god-awful and randomly numbered bar-coded slabs.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by midmo

To me personally it actually lowers the value. I would rather purchase an ungraded $50 set than graded because of the time it takes to crack them out (don't have the space nor desire to store tons of low value graded cards). I spent a couple hours last week releasing some 1953 Topps so I could put them in my binder and it's kind of a pain in the arse. Just keep in mind that you could have a really nice $800 card in addition to that $50 set.

Heck yeah.

[ReefBlue]

Originally Posted by midmo

Just keep in mind that you could have a really nice $800 card in addition to that $50 set.

I was wrestling with this as well.

I'm trying to strike a balance between having a collection that I want, and not missing out on a collection that is twice as large because I graded things that didn't really warrant it.

But, having a bunch of cheap cards around to fill out a bulk submission isn't a bad thing, either. Submitting 80 cards at 10 bucks is the same as 100 at 8, might as well do the 100.

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by ReefBlue

I was wrestling with this as well.

I'm trying to strike a balance between having a collection that I want, and not missing out on a collection that is twice as large because I graded things that didn't really warrant it.

But, having a bunch of cheap cards around to fill out a bulk submission isn't a bad thing, either. Submitting 80 cards at 10 bucks is the same as 100 at 8, might as well do the 100.

what about stop submitting all together or do you enjoy supporting a fraudulent broken operation and getting your teeth kicked in? Frankly, I think this is the dumbest thing I have heard in quite a while.