Grading Higher End Cards

[DS1991]

When you guys grade cards through Super Express or higher, is there any advice on how many cards to submit at a time? Should one do multiple smaller submissions rather than a large submission? Any advice would be appreciated.

[DS1991]

Any thoughts, here?

[rroboo]

My suggestion is multiple small submissions to minimize any shipping and receiving risks or getting one tougher grader.

[iluvfish2]

Id send all at once. But a lot depends on what your budget is and/or reasoning for grading them. If flipping, then likely best to do now while prices are still high. But at the same time at 300+ a sub it adds up quickly as far as the bill goes. So I can see spreading them out too.

[brios8]

I would rather send 10 cards once than two orders of 5

but if sending in 20-50 cards or so then yes I would split in 2-3 orders

[Spacemanspif]

Originally Posted by rroboo

My suggestion is multiple small submissions to minimize any shipping and receiving risks or getting one tougher grader.

I don’t worry about the grader so much, but shipping thousands in cards is always stressful

[Thor0]

I've thought about the psychology behind this before. If you happen to be one of the people that believes that the TPG's are biased then in this situation, in my opinion, you have to ask yourself:

A.) IF the graders don't all grade the same and use different scales (i.e., this grader is tougher and that grader is easier, or this grader got a flat tire on a Monday morning and he's grading extra hard today....etc.) then it's probably better to send multiple smaller submissions to limit your risk of getting a "tough" grader.

----OR----

B.) IF you believe that TPG's give preferential treatment to large submitters or people who submit large amounts of $$$ at a time, (i.e., you send 50x cards at $300/each and the TPG says, "Whoa! This person submitted $15,000 worth of stuff. We had better throw them some decent grades or they're not going to spend this kind of money with us again!" ), then it's probably better to submit very large batches at a time, as to maximize the preferential treatment.


Red Pill or Blue Pill? It'd be nice to see if someone had kept their stats on this type of stuff, just out of curiosity sake.

***FWIW, I put "TPG" because I truly don't believe ANY grading company is any better or worse than the other (as always= in my opinion)

[edogg]

With the cost of shipping and insurance included you wind up with an overall smaller cost per card with the more cards you submit. So if money is no object, I'd batch them as much as possible. Then again, the savings aren't necessarily THAT much, so it may be more subjective in for example are there some you want to hold vs some you want to flip asap, some that are longer term investments vs some with a hot market that you want to exploit asap. Those are the considerations I'd be making.

[Spacemanspif]

Originally Posted by Thor0

I've thought about the psychology behind this before. If you happen to be one of the people that believes that the TPG's are biased then in this situation, in my opinion, you have to ask yourself:

A.) IF the graders don't all grade the same and use different scales (i.e., this grader is tougher and that grader is easier, or this grader got a flat tire on a Monday morning and he's grading extra hard today....etc.) then it's probably better to send multiple smaller submissions to limit your risk of getting a "tough" grader.

----OR----

B.) IF you believe that TPG's give preferential treatment to large submitters or people who submit large amounts of $$$ at a time, (i.e., you send 50x cards at $300/each and the TPG says, "Whoa! This person submitted $15,000 worth of stuff. We had better throw them some decent grades or they're not going to spend this kind of money with us again!" ), then it's probably better to submit very large batches at a time, as to maximize the preferential treatment.


Red Pill or Blue Pill? It'd be nice to see if someone had kept their stats on this type of stuff, just out of curiosity sake.

***FWIW, I put "TPG" because I truly don't believe ANY grading company is any better or worse than the other (as always= in my opinion)

I just wanted to point out that by sending in multiple subs to "avoid a tough grader", you're also hedging against your odds of getting a "good grader". I just received back a sub that exceeded expectations and am stoked. once something is graded above expectations, its yours to keep. If you receive low grades that you think are unjust, you can always resub

[Thor0]

Originally Posted by Spacemanspif

I just wanted to point out that by sending in multiple subs to "avoid a tough grader", you're also hedging against your odds of getting a "good grader". I just received back a sub that exceeded expectations and am stoked. once something is graded above expectations, its yours to keep. If you receive low grades that you think are unjust, you can always resub

Absolutely correct, you nailed it Spacemanspif!

I think we all send cards off and have an idea of what we think the cards SHOULD have graded and I've certainly had subs come back graded much better than I had hoped for, so I couldn't agree with you more.

So, I guess that adds the caveat to my original first point that, if you're willing to take the risk, you can send bigger batches off and hope you hit the "nice grader" and then you're in the money. Worst case scenario, like you said, if you happen to hit the "harsh grader" you can always re-submit down the road.