Congratulations halo! For someone who has a tight budget but also likes to collect slabs I actually buy PSA 9s instead of 10s the price difference between those 2 grades can be a huge difference and I have 9s that actually baffles me how they got a grade 9 because they look so flawless to me.😂
I buy 9s as well and I assume they sell for about market value. I've thought about starting to grade cards, but I think it would be tough to eat the grading fee every time a card isn't a 10.
I never go out of my way for it but I do enjoy casually flipping singles find in the wild. I've had some decent ones. I'm always tempted to keep them though, lol
There should NOT be this ratio of 10s out there… I can guarantee you that at the very least 50% of those 10s are 9s to strong 9s at best. Definitely some strong 8s in there as well I’m sure too… The human element should probably be taken out of this. There’s definitely ways to get it dialed in perfectly. Note that I am fully aware that there are “AI” grading companies and I’m sure they’re great. However, I’m primarily saying that a “committee of committees” needs to be convened to decide exactly what parameters to adhere to along with the procedures that need to be implemented to ensure that happens. This way people can just choose their preferred grading company solely based on how cool/stylish they make their cases (obviously them most popular will float to the top). Throw some RGB in there or encrusted diamonds or something while you’re at it, haha. I’ll reiterate with a small correction: The human element should ALMOST be entirely removed from the grading processes. Maybe have some master graders that go behind and check certain things that might interfere with the resulting grades (such as lint on the camera lens for example) and definitely do that for high end items naturally. Humans should just be the QA/Maintenance for the machines to do this. IMO of course, lol.
Grading is a great way to preserve cards too. Ill usually buy psa 9s and 10s if they are cheaper cards. Shiny Treasure Mew SIR psa10 is 151$ rn go na scoop that one up later thos year if it stays or lowers
Very interesting analysis appreciate the video! I have been grading a lot more this year and sticking to the "popular" cards as I know they will sell so I love to see data like this, much appreciated!
It’s definitely an interesting take on making a profit from grading but it’s too risky. I think it’s better to do older sets that are not fluctuating in price too much.
Are we sure PSA has increased rigor??? I think most likely SV PSA 10 conversion difficulty is related to print quality. I would say this is almost certainly intentional on part of Pokémon company as they control the printers now.
It’s not even $15 per card to grade. If we’re talking about PSA it ends up being 17-18 per card after you factor in the insured shipping that they charge for your submission. That’s not even considering the $99 membership fee to access the bulk grading prices 😢
Yup! It's insanely expensive to grade cards especially with psa and that's usually who you want to grade them. But it's gotten so expensive that you have to be extremely careful with what you grade if you're doing it to potentially sell for a profit. Basically anything remotely modern like Sun & Moon Era and to present if it's not going to get atleast a 9 it's not worth the cost to grade most of the time. Sure there are exceptions but for the most part anything remotely modern if it's a PSA 7-8 you can usually find a near mint raw copy for the same price roughly. So anything modern needs to get a 9 but really a 10 unless it's a rare card which let's be honest how many modern Era cards are actually considered rare? Vintage depending on the set it can be a no brainer to grade as long as it's in NM or very LP or you once again got to be extremely careful as you might lose money or best case break even. If you're paying $20 a card Basically to grade it and that's for values under I think $200 you seriously don't have any wiggle room especially if you're selling the graded card on like Ebay or something where you're going to lose 10-15% via fees and shipping costs. Personally I'm glad that even though I'm a huge fan of collecting Pokemon and hell I even collect Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the gathering and One Piece as well that I don't care for graded cards at all nor care to get my personal collection graded. Personally I honestly think that all that is a scam. If you're wanting to just protect your card just get those magnetic card holder cases. Wayyyyyy too much inconsistencies , errors, damaging, sketchy scammy controveries, stupid psa changing the prices depending on card value, cards getting lost or stolen etc etc etc the list goes on and on on why I avoid supporting any grading company
I don't agree with how psa will upcharge a card just because it's more valuable. It's not like they are grading it any differently than a cheap card. Imo they just started getting greedy
Congrats to the winner!!! Holy buckets, man! Phanny Dantump go burrrr!!! Bro, you were a machine just churning and burning through all that data in today's vid! Unbelievable amount of compiled information. I know that couldn't have been easy to gather. Huge shout out to you, brother! This week's content, as you was hoping, was top shelf.
Would be interesting to also see the PSA 9 sale pricing on these cards. That would help analyze your "downside risk" of this strategy, assuming you could pick a raw card that would at least grade a 9. I would guess that for most of these cards you would lose a decent chunk (since the raw and PSA 9 sale cost is similar and you would be paying fees to grade/sell), but others like the OBF Charizard ex SAR PSA 9 sells for around $65-70, so you would be closer to breaking even (after fees) with a PSA 9 on a card like that, but still losing some money.
Another good stat I look at when considering whether or not to get a card graded is the psa9 price. If the psa9 price is close to the raw price plus the fees, I will send it in. Sometimes the psa9 price is almost the same as the saw price. If that’s the case, I don’t bother. My two cents!
If you're buying from TCG Player... no, you cannot make money purchasing raw to grade. Even for low end cards, I've never received a true "near mint" copy. Thanks for the content!
Yup! It's insanely expensive to grade cards especially with psa and that's usually who you want to grade them. But it's gotten so expensive that you have to be extremely careful with what you grade if you're doing it to potentially sell for a profit. Basically anything remotely modern like Sun & Moon Era and to present if it's not going to get atleast a 9 it's not worth the cost to grade most of the time. Sure there are exceptions but for the most part anything remotely modern if it's a PSA 7-8 you can usually find a near mint raw copy for the same price roughly. So anything modern needs to get a 9 but really a 10 unless it's a rare card which let's be honest how many modern Era cards are actually considered rare? Vintage depending on the set it can be a no brainer to grade as long as it's in NM or very LP or you once again got to be extremely careful as you might lose money or best case break even. If you're paying $20 a card Basically to grade it and that's for values under I think $200 you seriously don't have any wiggle room especially if you're selling the graded card on like Ebay or something where you're going to lose 10-15% via fees and shipping costs. Personally I'm glad that even though I'm a huge fan of collecting Pokemon and hell I even collect Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the gathering and One Piece as well that I don't care for graded cards at all nor care to get my personal collection graded. Personally I honestly think that all that is a scam. If you're wanting to just protect your card just get those magnetic card holder cases. Wayyyyyy too much inconsistencies , errors, damaging, sketchy scammy controveries, stupid psa changing the prices depending on card value, cards getting lost or stolen etc etc etc the list goes on and on on why I avoid supporting any grading company
congrast too the winner - thumbs up Another fire giveaway and fire lives and videos keep up the great work you do we all do enjoy watching the packs opening and always great info... 👍
I don’t see that much difference in a PSA 9 vs PSA 10. I only have 8 PSA cards, but they are all PSA 9s. I don’t want to pay double the price for a card that is almost the same 😅
Danny you know what I wonder, for the big cards in the sets like tina graders do a up charge when its a 10 from what I've heard did you calculate that into the fee's
i rly gotta say i hate everything about flipping and short term money. it misleads people to believe that something has genuine demand and snowballs this speculation to a completely different level. Now we have this immense speculative bubble that comes with alot of volatility and unneccessary swings. I miss the old stable sideways trend days. Even placing myself in the middlemen spot just feels disgusting and dirty imo. I support real collectors where i can, but sometimes its tough to distinguish if someone has real interest and joy in the item or they just want to flip for short term profits. Anyway i dont care or judge, but when i have the choice i always prefer to interact and deal with people who intend to collect and hold long term.
I’ve started to buy some graded cards but only when they get close to the raw price and they are at least a 9. I got lucky once and got a 10 but that doesn’t happen often
It all comes down to the ROI, the time you have that capital tied up, and how liquid the card is once graded vs raw. As you put it, it is generally easier for a business to just churn through singles with the built-in margin of buys/trade-ins as a business at 50-60% than gambling on a premium on 10's because you can cycle that money through again and again before the graded cards would even come back. The rare exception is if you can get a vintage or mid-era collection with pristine cards in it because then the margins on higher grades become significant.
PSA didn't get any more strict, Pokemon got worse at printing their cards! Dang near impossible to find a perfect modern card. Print lines, whitening, bad corners, you name it.
Awesome video. But man...do this and get yourself a stack of PSA 9's....ouch. Better hope you want them for the personal collection cause you're going to take it on the chin price wise. Living in Japan, I use PokeDATA a ton for this. The spread is our guide before we do any major singles buying efforts. Then I just sit on the cards till PSA offers a special on grading for those sub $50 value slabs.
Great video and examples. I would guess modern cards that are being submitted have been filtered, where typically the worst examples (centering, factory defects, wear etc.) don’t get sent in (and could make up a seizable portion of the ones available for sale on marketplaces). Just a thought example, but I’d expect gem rates to be lower if EVERY copy of a particular card were graded.
It’s very hard to make money unless you’re buying high end cards. I buy CGC 9.5s between $1000-$3000 and get them re-holders to 10s and send them all to PSA and hope to get some 10s. Can make a few thousand that way
I love grading for me it is there to be able to: 1. Protect my cards 2. Have better estimates for insurance especially with higher value cards. 3. As cards get older and more sought after its easier to assign a value vs just saying near mint when listings on EBay are tore up and say the same thing lol. I get that’s not point of the video haha, but I enjoy grading when able :) thanks for the great informative content Danny!! God bless all!!!
There is so much more to this... Mainly, 90% of sellers understand that they can grade these cards and earn a premium off the same card. So more than likely, anyone who selling a NM card off TCGplayer the centering is going to be ass and your not gonna get a 10. Or small scratches, small whitening etc.... In modern graded cards, every card sent in, that person who graded the card...99.99% of the time, thought it was going to psa 10. The 9s are people who were disappointed and thought they had a 10...Basically saying, psa 10's aren't handed out as easily as it seems. Example scenario : Let's say stand to make 40$ per card in a PSA 10...($40 raw price, $20 grading fee and psa 10s sell for $100) a card, for bulk grading prices ( the best deal you can get ) you need a minimum of 20 cards...So your just starting out and you only do the 20. Risking $1200 to earn $800. Sounds awesome right? Well not really, depending on your state you owe eBay fees which in my state comes out to about 15% if I make the buyer pay shipping costs. So your down to $500. Assuming you get all 10s , which you won't, I imagine you might get on a best case scenario 80% 10s. So, now your 16 psa 10s net you 1360, and your psa 9s probably sell at or below raw price. which is 40$ which gives you another 136. That gives you a total profit of $296. That isn't bad honestly, however your still required to find 20 copies of a "psa 10" worthy raw card for $40 which is very difficult to do and hopefully get lucky at PSA to get all 10s. It's not impossible but most of the time when you do the math it's easier just to try and flip raw cards lol. Another couple factors to keep in mind...How liquid is the PSA 10 / PSA 9 card I am grading? If I hit 20 psa 10s am I going to be able to move them in 1 week or 3 months?
I have been very successful making money on graded cards. The profits pay for my sealed and personal graded card collection. Never have to use my own money. You do get burned on some of them but thats the game.
I have a few lucky pulls over the last couple of years that I plan to get graded eventually. I pulled a shiny charizard from champion’s path, an Espeon Vmax from fusion strike, two 151 charizards, and two shiny charizards from paldean fates. They’ll look so sick in a glass case on a shelf above the binders.
Congratulations halo! For someone who has a tight budget but also likes to collect slabs I actually buy PSA 9s instead of 10s the price difference between those 2 grades can be a huge difference and I have 9s that actually baffles me how they got a grade 9 because they look so flawless to me.😂
I buy 9s as well and I assume they sell for about market value. I've thought about starting to grade cards, but I think it would be tough to eat the grading fee every time a card isn't a 10.
@@austinschuessler6592just grade high end cards, grading is usually only 20$
Thanks, it's weird seeing my name in a video.
Have you tried regarding them?
I never go out of my way for it but I do enjoy casually flipping singles find in the wild. I've had some decent ones. I'm always tempted to keep them though, lol
There should NOT be this ratio of 10s out there… I can guarantee you that at the very least 50% of those 10s are 9s to strong 9s at best. Definitely some strong 8s in there as well I’m sure too…
The human element should probably be taken out of this. There’s definitely ways to get it dialed in perfectly. Note that I am fully aware that there are “AI” grading companies and I’m sure they’re great.
However, I’m primarily saying that a “committee of committees” needs to be convened to decide exactly what parameters to adhere to along with the procedures that need to be implemented to ensure that happens.
This way people can just choose their preferred grading company solely based on how cool/stylish they make their cases (obviously them most popular will float to the top). Throw some RGB in there or encrusted diamonds or something while you’re at it, haha.
I’ll reiterate with a small correction: The human element should ALMOST be entirely removed from the grading processes. Maybe have some master graders that go behind and check certain things that might interfere with the resulting grades (such as lint on the camera lens for example) and definitely do that for high end items naturally. Humans should just be the QA/Maintenance for the machines to do this.
IMO of course, lol.
I have never gotten any cards graded, but I do want some of my cards graded for my collection. Plus, it's extra protection.
Grading is a great way to preserve cards too. Ill usually buy psa 9s and 10s if they are cheaper cards. Shiny Treasure Mew SIR psa10 is 151$ rn go na scoop that one up later thos year if it stays or lowers
Great video and you are not lying that that's a lot of work!
Very interesting analysis appreciate the video! I have been grading a lot more this year and sticking to the "popular" cards as I know they will sell so I love to see data like this, much appreciated!
It’s definitely an interesting take on making a profit from grading but it’s too risky. I think it’s better to do older sets that are not fluctuating in price too much.
Are we sure PSA has increased rigor??? I think most likely SV PSA 10 conversion difficulty is related to print quality. I would say this is almost certainly intentional on part of Pokémon company as they control the printers now.
Great insight and advice Danny. Thanks for sharing these tips.
It’s not even $15 per card to grade. If we’re talking about PSA it ends up being 17-18 per card after you factor in the insured shipping that they charge for your submission. That’s not even considering the $99 membership fee to access the bulk grading prices 😢
Yup! It's insanely expensive to grade cards especially with psa and that's usually who you want to grade them.
But it's gotten so expensive that you have to be extremely careful with what you grade if you're doing it to potentially sell for a profit.
Basically anything remotely modern like Sun & Moon Era and to present if it's not going to get atleast a 9 it's not worth the cost to grade most of the time.
Sure there are exceptions but for the most part anything remotely modern if it's a PSA 7-8 you can usually find a near mint raw copy for the same price roughly. So anything modern needs to get a 9 but really a 10 unless it's a rare card which let's be honest how many modern Era cards are actually considered rare?
Vintage depending on the set it can be a no brainer to grade as long as it's in NM or very LP or you once again got to be extremely careful as you might lose money or best case break even.
If you're paying $20 a card Basically to grade it and that's for values under I think $200 you seriously don't have any wiggle room especially if you're selling the graded card on like Ebay or something where you're going to lose 10-15% via fees and shipping costs.
Personally I'm glad that even though I'm a huge fan of collecting Pokemon and hell I even collect Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the gathering and One Piece as well that I don't care for graded cards at all nor care to get my personal collection graded.
Personally I honestly think that all that is a scam. If you're wanting to just protect your card just get those magnetic card holder cases. Wayyyyyy too much inconsistencies , errors, damaging, sketchy scammy controveries, stupid psa changing the prices depending on card value, cards getting lost or stolen etc etc etc the list goes on and on on why I avoid supporting any grading company
I don't agree with how psa will upcharge a card just because it's more valuable. It's not like they are grading it any differently than a cheap card. Imo they just started getting greedy
Happy Friday Phan Clan! :)
Thanks for the info as always Danny !
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congrats 😇 🤪 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👍
Congrats to the winner!!!
Holy buckets, man! Phanny Dantump go burrrr!!! Bro, you were a machine just churning and burning through all that data in today's vid! Unbelievable amount of compiled information. I know that couldn't have been easy to gather. Huge shout out to you, brother! This week's content, as you was hoping, was top shelf.
Congrats @halocrazy05!
Paradox rift don’t you mean temporal forces?
Haha! I caught that, too. Bro had a lot on his mind with this vid. The presentation is proof.
Happy Friday! My rarest card is a poncho pika that goes for 5K now that I bought years ago for like 50 bucks 😅
Would be interesting to also see the PSA 9 sale pricing on these cards. That would help analyze your "downside risk" of this strategy, assuming you could pick a raw card that would at least grade a 9. I would guess that for most of these cards you would lose a decent chunk (since the raw and PSA 9 sale cost is similar and you would be paying fees to grade/sell), but others like the OBF Charizard ex SAR PSA 9 sells for around $65-70, so you would be closer to breaking even (after fees) with a PSA 9 on a card like that, but still losing some money.
Scarlet and violet psa 10 percentages are most likely lower due to the decrease in print quality.
The shipping and PSA grading price turns me off so much lol. Is it worth doing that to flip them for 20-30 bucks?
If the difference is less than $50, I'll always go with PSA 10.
Another good stat I look at when considering whether or not to get a card graded is the psa9 price. If the psa9 price is close to the raw price plus the fees, I will send it in. Sometimes the psa9 price is almost the same as the saw price. If that’s the case, I don’t bother. My two cents!
If you're buying from TCG Player... no, you cannot make money purchasing raw to grade. Even for low end cards, I've never received a true "near mint" copy.
Thanks for the content!
I just got my biggest grading win back recently. Leafeo Vmax, Glaceon Vmax, Rayquaza vmax alt arts. All 10s!
Yup! It's insanely expensive to grade cards especially with psa and that's usually who you want to grade them.
But it's gotten so expensive that you have to be extremely careful with what you grade if you're doing it to potentially sell for a profit.
Basically anything remotely modern like Sun & Moon Era and to present if it's not going to get atleast a 9 it's not worth the cost to grade most of the time.
Sure there are exceptions but for the most part anything remotely modern if it's a PSA 7-8 you can usually find a near mint raw copy for the same price roughly. So anything modern needs to get a 9 but really a 10 unless it's a rare card which let's be honest how many modern Era cards are actually considered rare?
Vintage depending on the set it can be a no brainer to grade as long as it's in NM or very LP or you once again got to be extremely careful as you might lose money or best case break even.
If you're paying $20 a card Basically to grade it and that's for values under I think $200 you seriously don't have any wiggle room especially if you're selling the graded card on like Ebay or something where you're going to lose 10-15% via fees and shipping costs.
Personally I'm glad that even though I'm a huge fan of collecting Pokemon and hell I even collect Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the gathering and One Piece as well that I don't care for graded cards at all nor care to get my personal collection graded.
Personally I honestly think that all that is a scam. If you're wanting to just protect your card just get those magnetic card holder cases. Wayyyyyy too much inconsistencies , errors, damaging, sketchy scammy controveries, stupid psa changing the prices depending on card value, cards getting lost or stolen etc etc etc the list goes on and on on why I avoid supporting any grading company
congrast too the winner - thumbs up Another fire giveaway and fire lives and videos keep up the great work you do we all do enjoy watching the packs opening and always great info... 👍
I don’t see that much difference in a PSA 9 vs PSA 10. I only have 8 PSA cards, but they are all PSA 9s. I don’t want to pay double the price for a card that is almost the same 😅
Sooo...where are you Pokemon TCG Pocket video mate? Or afraid of the future of TCG 😶🌫️😂
I prefer raw but I have graded 10 of my childhood holos. Which is cool for long term preservation
Danny you know what I wonder, for the big cards in the sets like tina graders do a up charge when its a 10 from what I've heard did you calculate that into the fee's
i rly gotta say i hate everything about flipping and short term money. it misleads people to believe that something has genuine demand and snowballs this speculation to a completely different level. Now we have this immense speculative bubble that comes with alot of volatility and unneccessary swings. I miss the old stable sideways trend days. Even placing myself in the middlemen spot just feels disgusting and dirty imo. I support real collectors where i can, but sometimes its tough to distinguish if someone has real interest and joy in the item or they just want to flip for short term profits.
Anyway i dont care or judge, but when i have the choice i always prefer to interact and deal with people who intend to collect and hold long term.
I’ve never graded… but I imagine if I did it would definitely be for the most expensive or in demand. Not that I ever sell mine anyway. 😂😂😂😂
you also have to figure in shipping cost and time, plus the grading time. then worry about damage with all the extra hands on the cards
Congrats to the winner. Also I think you meant to Say temporal forces instead of paradox rift master set 😅
I’ve started to buy some graded cards but only when they get close to the raw price and they are at least a 9. I got lucky once and got a 10 but that doesn’t happen often
It all comes down to the ROI, the time you have that capital tied up, and how liquid the card is once graded vs raw. As you put it, it is generally easier for a business to just churn through singles with the built-in margin of buys/trade-ins as a business at 50-60% than gambling on a premium on 10's because you can cycle that money through again and again before the graded cards would even come back. The rare exception is if you can get a vintage or mid-era collection with pristine cards in it because then the margins on higher grades become significant.
😢😢😢I didn't win
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Some unless they do grade a 10 will actually have lower value than raw!
Only done my first grading late last year and was able 2 double my money really help with wedding
Happy Friday Phan Clan Hope everyone has some blessed pulls this weekend!
There are definitely opportunities for quick flips. Great info Danny!
This whole exercise was 😂😂😂 well done Fanny and congrats Halo.
Is the CGC partnership to include the competitive team over?
Massive difference between this iono vs clay burst
Happy Friday Danny!!!!!❤❤❤❤
can't wait for the temporal forces pull rates and review
Paradox rift AGAIN!? lol
Why use that charizard as clickbait though…?
I keep saying I'm going to grade my best cards.
I think you almost talk to little about your company 🤣.
Not paradox rift it’s temporal forces 😂
PSA didn't get any more strict, Pokemon got worse at printing their cards! Dang near impossible to find a perfect modern card. Print lines, whitening, bad corners, you name it.
They do it on purpose otherwise everyone will make money in the future lol , just stick to crypto and enjoy the 10x’es 💋
So on average, you might profit $20 assuming you do get that grade of 10 unless it's a huge banger
And it sells
How do I enter your giveaways!
Even with 1 video per day the quality is always high. Great stuff Phanny!
You can if you can find a way to avoid eBay fees.
Damn I slept on that giveaway
Such valuable insight! Thank you as always for sharing a bit of your brilliance!
Wooooo!
Great video! Thanks for the data
Happy Friday everyone. 🎉
the answer is no so you buy the card wait forever to get graded and your not always getting a 10 so you might break even but most time you lose money.
Its a bit of a gamble but if you got some vintage card that has huge price jump between 9 and 10 it may be worth it
Big win
Never sold a card b4
I haven't gotten into grading yet. It's more money on top of expensive hobby lol
If It didnt take so long it would be nice way to get some money to re-invest in the hobby
Great vid Danny!
keep up the grind!
Great video idea!
Congrats 🎉🎉🎉
Let's go!🎉
Awesome video. But man...do this and get yourself a stack of PSA 9's....ouch. Better hope you want them for the personal collection cause you're going to take it on the chin price wise.
Living in Japan, I use PokeDATA a ton for this. The spread is our guide before we do any major singles buying efforts. Then I just sit on the cards till PSA offers a special on grading for those sub $50 value slabs.
Nice video
Great video and examples. I would guess modern cards that are being submitted have been filtered, where typically the worst examples (centering, factory defects, wear etc.) don’t get sent in (and could make up a seizable portion of the ones available for sale on marketplaces). Just a thought example, but I’d expect gem rates to be lower if EVERY copy of a particular card were graded.
It’s very hard to make money unless you’re buying high end cards. I buy CGC 9.5s between $1000-$3000 and get them re-holders to 10s and send them all to PSA and hope to get some 10s. Can make a few thousand that way
Ders from workaholics!!! Love your vibe man…great content and I can tell you put the work in 💪🏻 👍🏼
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I love grading for me it is there to be able to:
1. Protect my cards
2. Have better estimates for insurance especially with higher value cards.
3. As cards get older and more sought after its easier to assign a value vs just saying near mint when listings on EBay are tore up and say the same thing lol.
I get that’s not point of the video haha, but I enjoy grading when able :) thanks for the great informative content Danny!! God bless all!!!
I parted with my cards once before when I was younger. Can’t bring myself to get rid of any now 😂
I love your classic booster boxes in the back! I used to get those.
Flipping cards is fun. Usually try to trade for other cards
Always great content that I am sure takes a ton of time to compile! Thanks!!
So much info . Thanks . Watched on 2x speed 😂
Congrats, Halo! Great video again, Danny! Love the content
Congrats halo, Danny is such a legend hey. 🎉🎉❤😅
We love you and your content as well Danny ❤ thank you as always!
There is so much more to this...
Mainly, 90% of sellers understand that they can grade these cards and earn a premium off the same card. So more than likely, anyone who selling a NM card off TCGplayer the centering is going to be ass and your not gonna get a 10. Or small scratches, small whitening etc....
In modern graded cards, every card sent in, that person who graded the card...99.99% of the time, thought it was going to psa 10. The 9s are people who were disappointed and thought they had a 10...Basically saying, psa 10's aren't handed out as easily as it seems.
Example scenario : Let's say stand to make 40$ per card in a PSA 10...($40 raw price, $20 grading fee and psa 10s sell for $100) a card, for bulk grading prices ( the best deal you can get ) you need a minimum of 20 cards...So your just starting out and you only do the 20.
Risking $1200 to earn $800. Sounds awesome right? Well not really, depending on your state you owe eBay fees which in my state comes out to about 15% if I make the buyer pay shipping costs. So your down to $500. Assuming you get all 10s , which you won't, I imagine you might get on a best case scenario 80% 10s. So, now your 16 psa 10s net you 1360, and your psa 9s probably sell at or below raw price. which is 40$ which gives you another 136.
That gives you a total profit of $296. That isn't bad honestly, however your still required to find 20 copies of a "psa 10" worthy raw card for $40 which is very difficult to do and hopefully get lucky at PSA to get all 10s. It's not impossible but most of the time when you do the math it's easier just to try and flip raw cards lol.
Another couple factors to keep in mind...How liquid is the PSA 10 / PSA 9 card I am grading? If I hit 20 psa 10s am I going to be able to move them in 1 week or 3 months?
We made it FRIDAY!
Happy Friday phanny!!!
Congrats Halo! 🎉
I have been very successful making money on graded cards. The profits pay for my sealed and personal graded card collection. Never have to use my own money. You do get burned on some of them but thats the game.
I have a few lucky pulls over the last couple of years that I plan to get graded eventually. I pulled a shiny charizard from champion’s path, an Espeon Vmax from fusion strike, two 151 charizards, and two shiny charizards from paldean fates. They’ll look so sick in a glass case on a shelf above the binders.