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You’ve Been PSA Upcharged (Declared Value is to Blame).

You’ve finally worked up the courage to grade a card, and now you’re stuck trying to figure out which service level is best. Aside from price and turnaround time – which are pretty self-explanatory – the term “declared value” is staring you in the face. Declared Value You aren’t charged for cards up front upon […]

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10 Best Places to Buy Baseball Cards (Based on Experience)

While it’s easy to run to the many popular places where you can buy baseball cards like comc.com, sportlots.com, and others that you might already know about, there is an entire online sports card store landscape just waiting to be explored. I’ll mention them all in the bulleted list, but will only expand upon those

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2023-24 Prizm Monopoly Checklist & Most Valuable Cards

Game on! 2023-24 Prizm Monopoly is back for another round of board game/trading card fun. And, before I crown it the most random collaboration in cards last year, it’s hard to open more eyes than the Tacofractor did. That said, the Tacofractor was only one type of parallel, while Monopoly Prizm is an entire release,

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The Best Sports Illustrated for Kids Cards To Watch For

Yes, Sports Illustrated for Kids, the magazine we all probably subscribed to when we were younger, only to have copies trashed long ago right along with many of your favorite childhood collections. If you don’t know, and you’re here to learn. You’ve heard of Sports Illustrated Magazine, right? Well, there is a version of Sports

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Bo Jackson Black & White Card Values & Why 1990 Score is the Most Famous of Its Kind

In 1990, Score produced what is now one of the most valuable cards from the 1990s—a black and white Bo Jackson wearing shoulder bats and posing with a baseball bat behind his head and across his shoulders. It was different then, and still iconic now. Here are the 90-day average values for the card in

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Why the Sepia Refractor is the Most Frustrating of all of the refractors

The Sepia parallel is a type of Topps refractor that can be found in various baseball card products. This includes Topps Chrome and Stadium Club. Sepia refractors have a reddish-brown reflective finish, just as the name suggests with the card resembling sepia tone photographs with the same coloring. Now that you hopefully know what I’m

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