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What Are Graded Pokémon Cards?
A graded Pokémon Card is a card
that has been sent to a Professional Grading Company and
graded for condition.
The Grading Company has a team
The Basic Grading Scale:
10:
Gem Mint
Half point grades are possible.
For example, a 1.5 would be fair.
After the cards have been
graded by the Professional Grading Company; the cards are
given unique certification identification numbers; entered
into a database; and carefully sealed in custom
tamper-evident holders.
Many people call these encapsulations “slabs”.
So, Why Have Pokémon Cards Graded?
First:
Graded Cards can sell for a lot more
This PSA Graded Gem Mint
“10” First-Edition, Base Set Charizard pictured
here sold for $16,270 on
eBay in March 2017. Another
sold for over $13,000 in February 2017. Graded cards
always sell for more than ungraded cards!
The best price we could find on an ungraded
First-Edition, Base Set Charizard sold on eBay in the first
quarter of 2017 was $1900.
Second:
The Encapsulation itself is actually very nice and it
protects the card very well.
There are several ways to protect your cards at home,
but none are foolproof.
Encapsulation is one of the better ways to protect
your most valuable cards.
What are the Card Grading Services?
The two big players out there are PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator) and BGS (Beckett Grading Service). There are a lot of articles on the Internet comparing these companies. The choice is ultimately yours.
For whatever reason,
How Much Does It Cost to have a Pokémon Card Graded?
You’ll see prices ranging from
$5 to $15 to get a single Pokémon Card Graded.
But you have to pay for shipping & insurance both
ways, so it leans more towards $10 per card.
Prices do go down if you send cards in bulk though.
And if you plan to get a lot of cards graded there
are reduced rates and monthly specials for members.
Should You Get Your Pokémon Cards Graded?
This is a tough question to
answer. Usually
it does not make sense to have a card graded unless it is
very old and really valuable
and in Near Mint Condition or better.
We would say if a card it a
very collectable card, and worth over $100 you might want to
consider getting it graded. And
we would only send cards out if you think they will receive
a score of 8, 9 or a 10.
If it's super rare and valuable, a 7 would be a good score
too!
Check the Completed Sales
section on eBay and find the prices that cards have actually
sold for, not what they are listed at.
First-Edition, Base Set Holographic Pokémon Cards
sell at great prices.
As do “chase” cards from many of the sets.
It is really difficult to have cards graded 9 or 10. Especially on older cards. Cards need to be centered perfectly. The have to be cut perfectly. They can't have dings to the corners, or edges, or the surface. There can be no roughness on the face or edges. Most older cards you might think are perfect seem to come back as 7's or 8's. 10's basically have to be protected from the get-go ... taken directly from a booster and highly protected immediately. Most people weren't doing that 20 years ago. I've sent in about 30 cards myself and maybe got two to three cards rated 10. And these were all cards that went right from boosters to binders (or hard plastic encapsulation top loaders). You have to understand that 7's and 8's and 9's are still really good scores - Near Mint or better! Whether its comic books, coins or Pokemon Cards though ... they higher the score, the better the price. For reference here are actual average sales prices on 1st Edition Base Set Charizards on eBay from the first quarter of 2017: PSA 10 - $14,500 Good Luck out there! Pojo!
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than ungraded cards!