Just submitted my first card to PSA and preparing for the letdown...

[doniceage]

The truth is I am too ignorant and out of touch to know how to do that! What app do you use?

There is a ton just google and many will come up. Just know if I was going to grade I would be utilizing grading before sending cards in.

don

[doniceage]

It is 100% clear to me that whatever I sell anywhere will be treated like a used car until it's dead, lol. I'm a bit of a purist, though. I'll never own a 1959 Topps Mantle again. Ever. However, someone else, somewhere, will be ecstatic to own it. Perhaps after it gets sold 300 times.

Joe,
I am right with you on not owning more cards after I sell them. I just keep digging thru my hoard that I have collected over the year. I have a handmade coffee table as those contain cards that I consider a pc (red wings collector). Everything else is pretty much movable so I have graded all my Mantles so I could move them for more dollars though many only grade 2's or 3's. I just stumbled across this one a few weeks back and was happy.

[doniceage]

I have a 59 Mantle that a dealer at a card show thinks would grade as a 6 or 7 but if I sent it in and it came back as a 5 I'd probably go nuclear. I have a Mantle 59 AS that looks to me like a PSA 8 or better but again, too nervous, impatient, and distru™™™™l to do anything different. I am one card shy of completing this set for something I started when I was 11 back in '84!

Having you checked to see what a pop 8 sells for. I mean that is a true beauty for sure and why not grade if it. If you just go to the App Store you can find grading cards apps. Also, if you do not want that you can go to ai programs and have the computer suggest what you mantle would grade based on the criteria put out there on the web. .Just a ton of options but just going to an app already developed would be quicker but not might be fulfilling if you like truly diving into something LOL.

DON

[momsaidkeepit]

I have a 59 Mantle that a dealer at a card show thinks would grade as a 6 or 7 but if I sent it in and it came back as a 5 I'd probably go nuclear. I have a Mantle 59 AS that looks to me like a PSA 8 or better but again, too nervous, impatient, and distru™™™™l to do anything different. I am one card shy of completing this set for something I started when I was 11 back in '84!

Whoah Whoah so now we're talking. Thanks for your words. This is the kind of stuff that started this whole thing and I love it. Good ole rough and ready from back in the day. Not that today isn't better or worse, lol.

But, do you mean to say you are one card shy of completing the entire 1959 Topps set. That's historic even if it's in VG condition. I am 6 cards away from 1961 collection in what we used to say Ex-Mint condition before the gradings.

[momsaidkeepit]

haha, looking at my above post it appears distrust and full cannot be placed together. I am guessing because of the 4 letter acronym that consists of the last 2 letters of distrust and the first 2 letters of ful. I will need to find an alternative word to express that feeling I guess!

I promise every person here full and 100% transparency. I am not trading here and I probably won't ever. I have been on other forums. None about sports cards. I so dislike BS. If you are about hype please do that elsewhere. This is something dear to me because it brings back memories. Hence my moniker. momsaidkeepit. Mom also said to be wise and ma

[momsaidkeepit]

haha, looking at my above post it appears distrust and full cannot be placed together. I am guessing because of the 4 letter acronym that consists of the last 2 letters of distrust and the first 2 letters of ful. I will need to find an alternative word to express that feeling I guess!

I wouldn't put too much effort into how the site treats your words. That's normal. But what about those cards, bro? A complete 1959 set? I'm trying to complete 1961 forever. 6 cards left all high numbers. And all of the cards are def not crap. The 7th series was brutal to get.

[momsaidkeepit]

Joe,
I am right with you on not owning more cards after I sell them. I just keep digging thru my hoard that I have collected over the year. I have a handmade coffee table as those contain cards that I consider a pc (red wings collector). Everything else is pretty much movable so I have graded all my Mantles so I could move them for more dollars though many only grade 2's or 3's. I just stumbled across this one a few weeks back and was happy.

@donceage

All my mantles. Yes. That is always the benchmark. Unless you are T206 Wagner or that other guy it's always been about Mantle. I always wonder why. Why Mantle? I think the answer would be timing. It's the only explanation why he rules unless you are basically, a millionaire, which I am not, lol. The timing of Mantle and the beginning of modern day cards. And the idea that dump trucks full of over-produced cards were dumped into the Atlantic. Is that story real?

[doniceage]

All my mantles. Yes. That is always the benchmark. Unless you are T206 Wagner or that other guy it's always been about Mantle. I always wonder why. Why Mantle? I think the answer would be timing. It's the only explanation why he rules unless you are basically, a millionaire, which I am not, lol. The timing of Mantle and the beginning of modern day cards. And the idea that dump trucks full of over-produced cards were dumped into the Atlantic. Is that story real?

Supposedly the story is true LOL. The reason for Mantle me is simpler one it one of the mass produced time for cards topps (New York market). The New York market had Willie Mays and the Giants but never the history as the Yanks and they also moved. I think the disparity of prices is not so much based on their talent but the proportion of the collectors broke down by race as why Mantle is favored (just my thoughts). You do not have to be a Millionaire as you can always find the low grades for the hundred of dollars and some under that if condition is not a big issue. Glad to see ya still posting and chiming in. Look forward to more of the cards you have graded in the future.

DON

[momsaidkeepit]

@momsaidkeepit

I am and I'm sure there are others too



I can't be the only one that thinks $181 is low for a HOF rookie card that is a PSA 7 from the 1960s. I know he isn't that popular but you can't even get a hobby box for under $200 now. I don't collect graded cards but I really don't get the market for them so what do I know.

But please let us know how the Mantles work out for you. I'm pulling for you and hopefully they have a generous graded that day that gives you a higher grade!

Mr Rookie dude here. A lot has happened. PSA is great if you are a millionaire but for the rest of us, it seems SGC is a better bet. At least for me and at the moment.

As far as my XP with PSA. I mean that. If you are going to submit to them, you better be sure. Or they will eat you alive, lol.

As far as SGC. The vintage cards seem to rate the same. However, I only gave both of them test samples. The best ones I am saving.

Any way, I am using AI to help me list the SGC slabbed I got returned a few days ago on eBay. Wish me luck!

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Greetings:
@momsaidkeepit As a person who is an anti-graded collector I prefer raw cards over the graded Shaving Cream I'll be the 1st to say about 3 years I believe I got a graded Kobe Bryant card that I purchased at a shop for around $50 the first thing I did was come to SCF I then posted I want a trade this graded Kobe card for the exact same card but I want the Kobe to be not graded plus I like to have at least 10 cards from my lists of needs otherwise I will have to take Kobe to get professionally removed from his case well a few days pass I heard from 2 people interested in it I weighed my options for what they offered besides the raw version well you might be thinking I would've not done that with my Williams or my Mantles as well the Yastrzemski but to me the ungraded Kobe means more than graded Kobe cause when I look through the binder & stare at the ungraded one its feel I enjoy. When I go to any shows or shop all I see is these slabby slabs ya ask for a non graded copy it feels I am speaking in Japanese to a raw card is better but regardless in what grade you get back it should be the same price no matter not if it graded or not & not at a price keep us posted on what