TTM does the cost work out?

[Anthony21]

I did say in a forum baseballs are expensive to send, but sending cards is a great thing to do! Instead of buying the whole set for a crazy amount of money, I recently bought 2015 series 1 for under 20 dollars!! Most people would pay a lot for an autographed card but you can do ttm for a lot cheaper and this way the players know who your fans are when you send the letter with it.

[CliffAnderson92]

I didn't realize how old this post was until I sent my reply
Even if I ever did spend $100 on a box of cards, I'd try to get as many of the base signed ttm as possible to try to decrease my almost certain losses. I'd like to send baseballs/hockey pucks/mini-footballs ttm, but I have no idea how I could send them without my local post office trying to charge me way too much:(((( They even try to measure and weigh flat rate boxes so they can charge extra for the size, even though it's supposed to be FLAT RATE!!!!! grrrr!

I have never gotten any of my cards certified or graded, but it does look too expensive for me to be able to make any profit if I tried to sell them afterwards -_- I'd like to do it with some of my Richard Petty ttm's, my Dellin Betances auto RC, and some of my Desert Storm ttm's, but it's really confusing. GAI sent me a packet with submission forms but I haven't done anything with it so far.

[mrveggieman]

I enjoy ttm, certified and IP. All 3 of the methods have their advantages and disadvantages. I like ttm because its cost effective and it gives me something to do with the literally thousands of base cards that I have sitting around my house collecting dust. The drawbacks are you can never be 100% sure if they are legit, you didn't actually get to interact with the signer and they are downright impossible to sell or trade unless you get them authenticated first.