To Grade or not to Grade

[Mr. Canada]

Thought that I would ask the boards opinion on this.

Going through all my cards a while ago I finaly got to listing a few of them on eBay just to move them. One that I have not listed yet is the following.

To me this card looks great. I think the corners look good, surface is clean. Obvi, the only blemish on the card is the pink smear that this card was known for. My question is more of would you sell it as is or would you take the chance and grade it.

Also knowing that there were two versions of this card (one with the pink and the other without), Im assuming that the non pink one was the more desirable one?

Let me know what you people think. Or if anybody knows of an app that can do a prelim grading on it cuz I see so many for pokemon cards but havnt found one for hockey cards.

 

[odjickfan]

In my opinion, it is worth it to grade when the card has a serious potential for a 10. Often, a 9 sells for nearly the same as raw.

 

[quincy]

In my opinion, it is worth it to grade when the card has a serious potential for a 10. Often, a 9 sells for nearly the same as raw.

NOW it does. Wasn't that long ago that a 9 sold about double the raw price. The market is beyond saturated.

 

[Mr. Canada]

But is the one with the pink smear worth grading or is it seen as a lower quality already because of it?

 

[creasecollector]

But is the one with the pink smear worth grading or is it seen as a lower quality already because of it?

i think it's still worth grading. Plus some collectors may want both variants for their PC. So it still does hold good value.

 

[will-411]

The smear itse;f won't prevent it from getting a ten - there are lots of examples of PSA 10s with the printing defect out there. From a quick look at a bit of data though, it looks like they're at best 75% of the value of the non smeared one in comparable condition (raw to raw, PSA 10 to PSA 10, etc.).

I'd say if you think it has a shot at a 10, it's worth it.

Note, I don't know how PSA is CURRENTLY grading them - I haven't checked cert #s to know if 10s are still coming out on this version.

Cory