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TAG GRADING | Review & 5 Card Reveal | Slab Giveaway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 มิ.ย. 2023
- Welcome back to Joe’s Card Stache!
This week I look into the newest grader on the block…..Tag Grading.
TAG Grading website - taggrading.com
TAG Grading Instagram - ...
My friend LilB aka The Corner Kid challenged me to a grading battle with TAG grading. We both got the same card graded to se who could grade the highest.
After that I go over 5 other cards I got graded with TAG and talk about what I like and don’t like about their service.
(2:00) - I reveal my grade from the challenge from Lil B. Make sure you are subscribed to his TH-cam channel…
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(6:05) - I reveal the 5 UFC cards I got graded with TAG and review their service.
(34:50) - I give you the details to win the two graded cards I’m giving away.
If you enjoy this type of UFC card content please help spread the word….. LIKE and COMMENT on this video and SUBSCRIBE to Joe's Card Stache!
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I've always wondered how 1,000 different graders (with 1,000 different sets of eyes) can have any real type of consistency. Add on to that they may be overworked, negative personal bias against certain players, having a bad day etc. I think computer based grading is the wave of the future. Very excited about what TAG GRADING is bringing to the table. They also have the best looking slabs in the game - by far.
I’m very excited for what the future holds for TAG as well. Thanks for watching the video and the comment! 🙏
Thanks for sharing Joe. I like the POP report and the submission kit ideas. These grading companies have a Heathy Profit Margin that they can use to implement some of these ideas but I feel that they won’t. They are stuck in their ways like Blockbuster when Netflix put them out of business. Let’s see if TAG is the Netflix of the grading world.
We will see Rick. TAG has the right idea. I’m interested to see what happens.
TAG is going to be an industry leader in time!!!! I’d love that Grant Dawson @JoesCardStache
Thanks for watching and commenting CJ. I’ll pick a winner for the giveaway later this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Dawson.
TAG will be a force to reckoned with! I have previously inquired with TAG for grading thicker cards - they are not currently set up to do so, but it sounds like it will be done in the future - FYI. I would love the Grant Dawson! Great content as usual!
Thanks Chuck! I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Dawson.
To me this is the future of grading and the only company I am using right now!!!
Nice Peter! I would be very happy if what Tag is doing becomes the future.
Tag on the come up Forsure
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Definitely will use TAG for the personal stache! Loving the older cards like that Rashad
Thanks for supporting the Stache. 🙏
Hey Hey Joe! Great video!!! Love the casing on the slabs! Thanks for sharing the love of the hobby! I may consider TAG in the future! Happy collecting all! Love the Dawson RR!
Thanks for the comment Jason! I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Dawson.
Joe, a sincere thank you so much for the absolutely stellar video review! We are so glad that you see and appreciate all of the effort, thought, and care we have put into making a bona fide, automated grading system that values transparency and giving each collector all of the info they deserve. It has been a long road, over 10 years of developing the technology, 4 awarded patents, and we are just getting started!
In regards to your resale comments, we are actively monitoring and recording our secondary market sales and the comps-- it has been extremely exciting for us to watch them climb. As of last week, across all sports, our Buy It Now sales are actually (on average) going toe to toe with PSA. Fanatics has also started selling TAG slabs on their platform with very promising sales. Where we need most secondary market improvement (which we feel confident will come in time), is in the Auction space; SEO is critical to getting auction listings seen and bid on. The TAG name still needs to grow in order for the SEO to improve and get the actual auction listings seen. We are encouraging people who are selling TAG slabs to list using Buy it Now due to the nature of search engine optimization; at the end of the day, at auction, if something doesn't get seen it is much more likely to sell for a steeply discounted price. TAG is growing quickly, each Grading Drop we do increases in capacity and continues to sell out within 20 or so minutes.
We love the "TAG You're It" challenge-- you and LilB have inspired us to start a channel in the TAG Community Discord so that others may do the same. We have many exciting updates coming soon in regards to the Leaderboards that will make these challenges even more exciting. Ultimately, one of the aims of TAG is to decentralized grading-- we want collectors to support local card shops and take their cards there to have them slabbed in person using the TAG technology. Sub kits and mail in service will still be available, but it is our aim to do right by collectors and make grading accessible, timely, accurate, and affordable to all. We began building this company over 10 years ago because we are collectors ourselves and we want to build the transparent grading service that we ourselves would want to use.
Thank you again, we hope you continue to support TAG as we will Joe's Card Stache!
Thanks so much for the comment guys. I was very happy to highlight what you guys are doing because I think it’s very exciting (and MUCH needed in the grading space) and it is true. My comment about the value on the secondary market WAS mainly based on auctions I had seen on eBay. And it makes sense that searching issues would impact those values. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for your company. I’ll continue to try to spread the word about TAG. Also, I love the idea of decentralized grading as well!
By sharing your technology with local card shops is 1) there are more counties in America that don’t have card shops then do- will leave collectors with no option 2) this will lead to higher grading cost for consumers because you know the shops will want a cut of the pie as well.
Also I think some of the factors leading to low resale prices of Tag cards is the fact that many submitters are not sending in high value/in demand cards that PSA and SGC are currently receiving. Personally those are the ones I am sending in 1) to make them stand out in the Tag crowd 2) those are the only cards worth sending in at the current $25 all access price point (which is the only service I will potentially use from now once since the drop method just leaves me frustrated from not getting in and and I’m done wasting get my time on that)
For collectors who are looking at Tag strategically it will make sense to send cards of players who are “rumored” to be artificially population controlled by the other grading companies. (Thinking early Brady, James, Trout, Jordan, Ovechkin cards) The more 10’s of these players that hit the market will cause a shift in the grading industry dynamic towards Tag and away from “subjective and inconsistent” graders
@@user-xf2tl8ee3cwell said and I agree
These look so good once you take em outta the sleeve. I love it.
947 3points away from a 10 dang...
Dude very cool sending in that ROund 1 card. I was thinking of collecting a set of poster review cards and sending them in lol.
💯 Luke. Can’t wait to see your next order.
That Aljo and Grant Dawson laser are sick!
This company really does seem to be the future of grading, they’ve solved so many of the issues. The 1-1000 grading, very open with telling you the imperfections, visually a beaut, sending you the box before shipping, putting them in packs has to make it so much more fun. The question is will the masses buy these close to PSA range? Resale premium and more lax grading seems to be the only reason people keep subbing to PSA. What time table do you think they need to get the notoriety for the masses to respect them?
Thanks for making this video I’ve been wondering about the ins and outs.
Thanks Zach 🙏 Hard to say what kind of timetable TAG would need to have close to the resale value of PSA. It all depends on if they can spread the word about their product. My plan is just to keep an eye on sale prices for the rest of this year and see what happens.
@@JoesCardStache Hopefully they can make up some ground, some great problem solving by them I think I’ll use them for my next grading batch, need to support them for doing the consumer right.
Even though we are the RAW card family (everything is a '10' in our case 😂)... great informative video! 👏 as always 💥
Thanks for watching guys! 🙏
New sub. You're video was great. For now I will use PSA for investment cards. I will use tag for all of my PC though for sure. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the sub man. Glad you liked the video. I think your plan is a good one. Im excited to see what the future holds for TAG.
Love the in depth review. I can definitely see myself using TAG in their next drop, especially for my PC cards. Being able to see that much detail of your own card and the reason for the grades is so dope. I’d love that Grant Dawson if I get chosen! (Both are beautiful cards) Thanks for the UFC content, keep it coming!
Thanks for the comment Joey! I’ll be picking a winner this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Griffin.
I think that with time TAG will start to be recognized as a reputable company, as long as they keep doing good work of course. The population reports and defect charts are things that will be key to their success i believe, personally i hate not being able to see what is wrong with non gem cards. The Grant Dawson Teal is absolutely fire! Thanks for the awesome video joe!!
Thanks Ethan! I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Dawson.
I would love the grant dawson 1/25. Im about a year in to collecting and your videos have helped me out immensely.
I’m glad the videos have helped you out! Thanks for commenting. I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Dawson.
I've been super curious about TAG and was about to order a kit from their drop a few days ago but held off because I wanted to see this video first! I think I'll get a submission kit next time they drop because it looks like a really great service honestly. I'd love to snag that Rashad!
You should definitely give them a try! Thanks for the comment. I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Rashad.
PSA charges you later on in case they have to upcharge you for anything. You know what's crazy? A Green /5 Gilbert Burns RC sold for $35 after he lost graded a PSA 10. Doubt the sale was completed though lol.
Whoa. I wish I saw that Burns card!! Thanks for watching man.
Sending off my first 20 cards to TAG today. Everything looks amazing.
Nice man. Good luck! Let me know how it goes.
How’d it go? Overall thoughts.
Great video and shoutout bro. I think tag looks really nice bud. Seems like its been along time. Glad to see you back. 👍
Thanks Cloudsey! 🙏
Ohhhhhh TAG looks sick! I actually opened my account with them while watching your video! I’m definitely going to use them for my PC! The slabs look slick, the grading scale looks pretty damn good, and the major thing I like is that grading report! I’d definitely like that topps rashad evans card!
Thanks for commenting Raw Dog. I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Rashad.
The thing here is, there are & have been countless "new grading companies who are taking on PSA, Beckett, etc." yet literally none of them have managed to gain any serious traction throughout every/any subset of the hobby. Grant Dawson btw
Good point although TAG seems a bit more serious than a lot of the other companies that have come around. They have put a ton of money into all the tack and slabs. And it seems like they are starting to market to get the word out about their product. We will see what happens. Thanks for commenting. I’ll pick a winner for the giveaway later this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Dawson.
Submission kits are free over orders $100 or more. Otherwise be prepared to to pay $19.99 for the kit. Also shipping is $20 👎🏼.
Drops are 2x a month for $14.99 a card but be prepared to be disappointed because 90% of people can’t get in on the drop at release. However they now have an open submission option that cost $25 per card. Fairly pricey with a 20 day stated turn around
Oh wow. Big changes since I submitted. I guess it’s to be expected. They do seem to be getting a bit more popular. Thanks for the update!
Thanks for this review. Very helpful information.
Glad it helped Edgar. TAG is blowing up!
Grant dawson is sick! Always love me some lasers! If i get a chance i will definitely try to grade some of my pc cards with Tag. I like how the slabs look clean and focuses more on displaying and protecting the cards. Hope they become one of the top companies in the future.
Thanks for commenting. I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Dawson.
The illusive Joe has returned. This may have taken me a few sessions to get through. But I made it to the end. 👊🙏
Haha. Thanks for the effort man. 🙏
I dont own a single slab until now. I pulled a great khabib auto card and was about to send it to psa but then i thought that spending 99 $ for the auto+card grade is a bit much. I would rather just get it into a nice slab to showcase.
Awesome video as usual. PSA will be #1 as long as they can process efficiently and stay cheap. TAG should be #2 if they can scale up volume.
I think the grade out of 1000 is awesome and provides distinction. A 975 should be worth more than a 974 if they're graded around the same time. It's better than subgrades.
I think getting an early TAG grade could add value to the slab as pop reports get bigger.
Keep up the sick videos.
Constructive feedback: TAG turnaround is 20 business days @ $14 per card. That's basically a month.
Nice man. Sounds like a good plan. Which Khabib did you pull?
Thanks for the comment Nate! Glad you liked the vide. I agree with everything you said. And thanks for the heads up about the turn around time. I should have done my research before the video. Haha.
@@JoesCardStache Select 22 Gold Auto
Really like the way the slabs blend in. I like that it's about displaying the card not the grade. I'm going to have to send some Pokemon cards in to see how the grading process goes. The card I'm interested in is the Rashad Evans if I win going to give it to my brother. He is a huge Rashad Evans fan.
Thanks for commenting. 🙏 I’ll pick a winner this week and let you know if you win the Rashad!
Definitely would use Tag if I ever wanted to grade a card, I don’t really resell so it would just be for my PC and their slabs/the online system are super cool. Would love to win the Rashad Evans as well!
Thanks for the comment Ethan! I’ll pick a winner this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Rashad.
Great informative video Stache 👍🏻
Thanks Lewis! 🙏
This is worth every penny of the grading price.
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I will be sending cards to TAG I just sent my first ever order to PSA and nervous about the horror stories of a grade depending on graders feeling that day. I can learn so much from TAG grading system for future submittals.
Let me know how it goes Erick!
@@JoesCardStache I ended up sending them to PSA because TAG is sold out of Grading Packages. Bummer
i LoVe Tag Already ! the future of Cards
I definitely love what they are doing. Very interested to see what the future holds.
Great video dude. But just want to say, it's not just the ink printing issue, you could easily get a 9 with that. It's the fact that there multiple scratches on the card that clearly both PSA and TAG have seen. Just look at your card from different angles directly under a light and you will see it.
Hey Sean! Man you got a good eye! Yeah. That card definitely has some scratches on it. Thanks for watching the video and for the comment.
TAG WILL BE KING 👑
@MrSQRL-1 One day!!
I love new companies I hate investors stuck in there 🦕 ways if we stick to PSA nothing is going to change or evolve to new heights and I would
Love the rashad cards in my pc
Thank for the comment man! I agree. I’m happy there are companies out there trying new things. Sadly I already gave out the Rashad for the giveaway. I’ll try to do more of them in future videos.
tag is cool I like the slabs I would like that rashad it would be dope to have that and it would be my first graded card 👌
Thanks for the comment! I’ll pick a winner this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Rashad.
IMO, ARS (Japanese grading company) >TAG >BGS in terms of labels.
I will still send a card to PSA tho.
I’ve never seen ARS. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the comment. 🙏
Think I would consider using TAG , nice video … appreciate the giveaway ! Dawson for me pls thanks !
Thanks for watching and commenting Greg. I’ll pick a winner for the giveaway later this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Dawson.
thanks for the vid, i hit a 1/1 sean brady in a break recently and some other big anderson silva cards so i have been seriously thinking about getting them graded when they finally arrive. i have never submitted anything for grading so i need to do me some research. there is a company here in Australia called TCG grading. i know its not a popular grading company but they have black labels in the slab that would look sick with the black 1/1. would be keen to win the grant dawson but appreciate postage to Australia might exclude me from the giveaway.. GO JUNE UFC CARD GIVEAWAY MONTH !!!!
Thanks for the comment Billy. Sorry. I should’ve said it in the video but I’m gonna have to keep the giveaway just for U.S. only because of shipping costs. Congrats on the Brady though! That’s massive!
Serious question... did TAG pay you, give you a free grading submission, or both? Lol just playin the slabs do look nice & I wish at least 1 more company could actually take a substantial market share so we have more competition in the grading industry, I just feel like people are so stuck in their ways that countless collectors will never even consider anything besides PSA when buying graded singles or submitting their own cards or grading which makes legit market competition for grading real tough to bring to fruition
Haha. TAG definitely did not pay me. I’ve never been paid by any company for anything I do on channel.
That’s actually hella cool
Thanks for watching Tyler!
the struggle to show off the label says it all. Is what it is.
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@@JoesCardStache I do want to see TAG successful, but I stand by my thoughts on label/slab gimmickry not being a good foundation to take off on
@@kurtanglerookieyear ohhh. I thought you were saying that not being able to see the label was a positive. Haha. I understand now. While I don’t agree with your point of view but it’s very valid argument. I do recommend checking out one of their slabs in person before you make a final judgment. They are pretty amazing in hand.
Hey brotha ! Does TAG charge you up front when submitting the online order or do they charge once the cards are slabbed you and sent back like PSA ?
Hey man. I believe they charge you when you submit. I think PSA is the only grading company that doesn’t charge right away.
@@JoesCardStache appreciate the info !!
Ditch the packaging, presentation, lower the grading price to $8-10 dollars a card. They need to get thousands of these slabs in circulation every week.
That’s a good point. I agree if more people were seeing their slabs in circulation, then there would be more people willing to give them a try.
PSA 8 to a TAG 8.5. Lost half its value😢
Haha. Sadly, I think a raw version is worth more than both of those. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
Aside from the reputation aspect, the service TAG provides far exceeds PSA. It destroys PSA in terms of quality. PSA is overall garbage.
I agree but it’s crazy how much money they make. They are grading more than 1 million cards a month. Can you imagine how many graders that takes. They are just laughing at us while they take our money to the bank. Haha
Very easy to do when you're getting a much lower volume then PSA. These kits and wrapping the card in a pack all costs money, they will not be able to keep doing this. That was a marketing strategy to bring people in. And from what I've read, they aren't grading vintage (pre-1980), without being able to grade vintage, they'll never compete with PSA or SGC.
here is the problem with TAG, it seems like it costs them a lot of money to grade and attract customers......the level of detail for each individual card from your own shipping kit, to online image detail, to individually wrapped cards upon return cannot possibly be efficient for their bottom line and this will result in the company not being able to produce in scale. Another thing is, yes, the technology is great and digital grading is certainly the future, but once the bigger companies adapt to it this company is going to get lost in the market shuffle........great looking slabs, cool video breakdown but i just dont see them as a mainstay in the hobby that already has 3 big companies that the market has highly adopted, and that really goes for any of the non big 3 grading companies.
Thanks for watching and the comment Slugger. I definitely see your point but I have to imagine they must have a plan to scale up when the time comes. I’m sure they saw what happened to HGA and don’t want that to happen to them. We will see what the future holds. I do think that if PSA, BGS, and SGC don’t innovate with some of this stuff then people will move on to someone new.
Most grading services are better than PSA. PSA is widely used because of their simple grading scale, 60/40 centering on a 10 and for a decade handing out gems like candy. Because of this investors and collectors accumulated a large collection of PSA garbage and will defend that garbage to protect that garbage. Now PSA is bipolar and seem to grade by throwing darts at a board. Think that’s a 10, well it’s a 4 Please Submit Again. Oh it was a 9 this time? Weird.
Thanks for the comment Jason. I completely agree that PSA grading is all over the place. The main reason I presently grade with them is because I like the look of the slabs and they sell well. If TAG can start getting some good resale value, I will totally switch over to them.
Wow this was really insightful. Shame TAG lacks the notoriety they need right now. That grant Dawson is dope though!
Thanks man! (Hilarious screen name by the way. Haha) I’ll pick a winner this week. I’ll let you know if you win the Dawson.