Prompt Advice Needed!

[gregndodgers]

Those cards have great eye appeal and darn good centering, but the corners are pretty soft to get a 4 or better given the state of today's grading standards. In the old days, 4s for sure but not today. Sad.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by gregndodgers

Those cards have great eye appeal and darn good centering, but the corners are pretty soft to get a 4 or better given the state of today's grading standards. In the old days, 4s for sure but not today. Sad.

Well, I did send the Cy Young back for review (along with a few raw cards). I have plenty of recently graded PSA and SGC 4s that are considerably worse off than the 3.5 Young.

I decided to keep the Walter Johnson as-is. I'll report back in 3 weeks or so with results, for anyone who is interested. Thanks again for all the input.

[perezfan]

Here (finally) is the follow-up to where we left off...

The T206 Cy Young came back with a new grade, along with a dozen other cards I had submitted. For anyone interested, here's the video showing all of the results...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcDlLbL_oeA

Thanks again to all, for your stellar advice!

[tireolddawg]

Is anyone able to articulate without having a card in front of you what you look at to determine if a card is trimmed? The main reason I’m weary of buying raw cards is that I don’t think I really know how to tell myself unless it’s just totally obvious. Any tips?

[Fred]

It was good to see the half grade bump on the Johnson.

Just curious, when a card is sent in for a "review", do they charge for the review? In this case, the card was bumped half a grade. Based on the half grade bump, was an invoice required to pay for the higher value for the card?

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Fred

It was good to see the half grade bump on the Johnson.

Just curious, when a card is sent in for a "review", do they charge for the review? In this case, the card was bumped half a grade. Based on the half grade bump, was an invoice required to pay for the higher value for the card?

Yes.... they wanted an extra $75 for the half-point upgrade. Perhaps the result of their recent acquisition by Collectors; perhaps not. But either way, the half-point bump cost me $90 ($15 for the Review and another $75 for the upgrade).

[CRT Sportscards]

Random question here but are you all in the Seattle area?