Graded football cards - pros and cons

[PowderedH2O]

I sold my entire graded football collection earlier this year for about $20k. Best decision ever. I am no longer concerned with the grade and I can enjoy the cards. I paid $275 for a Doug Atkins rookie. I replaced it with a raw one for $14. I paid $100 for a Tom Fears rookie. I now have two ungraded ones that I paid $50 for the pair. I am so much happier being off of the registry and back to collecting.

[Il Padrino]

Another issue with trying to keep up with the registry listings would be the high number of cards that are cracked out of their cases for re-grading thus the entire registry is skewed based on that alone. Meaning it cannot possibly be accurate as people crack items plus move from PSA to SGC and vice versa.

As stated before, I like items raw.

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by Il Padrino

Another issue with trying to keep up with the registry listings would be the high number of cards that are cracked out of their cases for re-grading thus the entire registry is skewed based on that alone. Meaning it cannot possibly be accurate as people crack items plus move from PSA to SGC and vice versa.

As stated before, I like items raw.

+1000

At this point the registries are nowhere NEAR accurate. There's no way to track cards that have been resubmitted 10 times for bumps, crossed back and forth, cards that have been ripped out of their slab, etc.

Population reports are a joke.

jeff

[Il Padrino]

Originally Posted by jefferyepayne

+1000

At this point the registries are nowhere NEAR accurate. There's no way to track cards that have been resubmitted 10 times for bumps, crossed back and forth, cards that have been ripped out of their slab, etc.

Population reports are a joke.

jeff

Population reports are a joke = WIN!!!!!

Anyone that says otherwise has too much invested in their graded cards and fears the truth. Like when a woman asks her man "does this dress make me look fat?" and the TRUTHFUL response is "no sweetheart, you make the dress look fat!"