Three experiences got me into baseball card collecting—flea markets, garage sales, and thrift stores like Goodwill. I mean, there weren’t really many other options if you were looking to buy card collections in bulk in 1994. Even as we evolve into a much different time with this cardboard hobby we all love so much, Goodwill […]
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PSA Grading currently takes about 20 days to grade a card at the “value plus” service level ($40/card) and 10 days at the “Regular” service level ($75/card). Not too long ago, in April of 2021, most of the basic services were suspended, and in March of 2022, “Regular” service was $100 without a stated turnaround
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With card grading and the availability of any piece of information at our fingertips to research and study, we now have as good of an idea as ever on what makes up the condition of a card – corners, centering, surface, and edges of the card – and what the different levels of “condition” exist.
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As of December 2023, of the major card grading services, SGC currently offers the cheapest card grading service, which is $15 to grade a single card at the “Standard” level. This is $1 less than BGS’ “Collector’s Special” (no subgrades), and $10 less than PSA’s “Value” service. Here is a grading cost calculator to help
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It’s incredible to think that baseball cards have blown up to the point where we are talking hobby apps, and using the best tools possible to identify cards, appraise cards (or value cards you’re looking to track and purchase), scan them into your collection, or even pre-grade them. So, here are 10 different apps to
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Relic cards are terrible only if you allow them to be. I mean, they have been here for years and will be here forever, in seemingly every release, until the end of cardboard. So, let’s embrace them! And what better way to embrace them than looking at some of Mike Trout’s greatest (that is, other
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I’ll be honest—this is about the 3rd or 4th time I’ve tried to put together a guide on how to look up card values but each has missed the mark. The first post was detailed, but the next was even more specific, and the posts kept getting longer and longer, with more and more info.
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A rainbow in sports cards is the name for collecting the entire parallel run of a particular card in a particular set or subset. The name “rainbow” comes from the fact that parallels often come in different colors and designs, so when you put them all together and next to each other, it forms a
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The PSA Crossover cost is $75 at the “regular” service level (max declared value of $1,499), which has an estimated turnaround time of 10 days. This is the same PSA cost and turnaround if you were you to submit a raw card for grading. The PSA Crossover service cost depends on the value of the card
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When I was young and innocent, I didn’t understand the difference between a garage sale and an estate sale. Frankly, I just thought estate sales were larger types of sales where instead of people staging items of sale in their garages, they had people wander their homes to find priced items. Well, obviously I now
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