PSA Return: I Graded My Best Pokemon Cards - Was It Worth It?
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- I sent in my most expensive Pokemon cards to PSA. I sent off 29 cards in total. The prices I show in the video are based on most recent eBay sales as of January 2025. My profit calculator is based on the cards I decided to sell off, all others are going into my personal collection. Hope you enjoy the video!
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The more i watch PSA submissions, the more I realize that TAG is way better... you know exactly why your card gets the grade it gets.
Someone actually let me know that if you look up the certificate number of your PSA card they have notes that say why you got the grade.
Tag not even close to psa lol
Except it misses surface damage a lot. People turn PSA 6's into tag 10s...
@@cashmerefire7335 yeah. People think that just because a company gives away 10s. Its a better company. Its hilarious.
People only think PSA is the best because of card shows and vendors and they want PSA because it has the biggest profit margin to flip cards, Beckett black label is probly the best and the hardest to get a prestige 10 because all the graded levels for every aspect are on the card if everyone switched to another card grading company then they would become "the best" PSA is absolutely inconsistent and a perfect card could get an 8 and a not so perfect card can grade better depends on the grader tag uses A.I graduation ng and is way more consistent
Personally I would go the extra mile to compile simple notes for each card on centering + any corner or surface damages or white dots. I do see some comments saying you could still get a 9 with a good card depending on the grader, so why go thru all that work. Well, the "grader" factor is not within our control but what's within our control is checking thoroughly on each card to determine grade potential & hope for the best.
I really like this idea. I found out that you are able to see grader comments. So I could compare what I saw with the grader to see any discrepancies. Thanks for watching the video!
Great video keep it up 🎉
Thanks man. Glad you liked it.
how did you put the sticker tabs covering the grades without seeing the grades? that doesn’t make sense 🤔 😂
It was weird. I had the slabs facing away from me and I put the tabs on that way. I usually have my wife put them on for me but this time I did it myself.
@@erikember7 thanks for the reply!
great video man
Thank you I appreciate the kind words
You had a tough grader, but most of the 9s looked to be off center to me, still shoulda fell within the 60/40 tho
I thought so. My last submission went much better with cards that had more flaws than these. But hey that’s the risk with having humans grade it can vary.
Man i normally think people just get salty but dude those 9's are so mint idk how they didn't get a 10. I have seen so many scuffed 10's from psa its crazy they did you dirty. I love CGC personally but buy and sellers always lean more on psa.
Right?! Glad it wasn’t just me. Thanks for watching the video.
Woah they messed up the label! mimik yu vmax 😅
Really?! I didn’t even notice that.
@erikember7 yep. Maybe the grader previously graded a stack of yu nagabas? 🤔
The Erika's Invitation is slightly off center on the front top to bottom, but I've seen 10s with worse centering. If there's no whitening or cut dots on the corners, it could be worth cracking and resubmitting. Congrats!
I will definitely take another look at that one. Thanks!
i checked psa site there is a slight nick on top right and slight whitening on btm left. Probably a combination of those two knocking down a grade. Had it been just one of them, probably a 10
Does PSA put those tabs over the grade, or did you add them prior?
I put those on so I would be surprised when I revealed the grade. I had not seen the grades until I recorded this video.
Watching this is making me second guess submitting during the Pokemon bull market. I bet they’re getting flooded with submissions
Yeah if you do make sure your cards look perfect. I actually just saw another video that PSA changed their grading standards for centering. Now it is more strict.
Illustration rares are very tough to get 10s on bc they usually have print lines hard to see
How in the world does that lugia even get a 10 lol more off center than a lot of your 9s
I thought the same thing tbh. Decided to keep this in my personal collection for now.
@@erikember7 that card is extremely nice wish I could’ve sent mine off but mine is so off center it could be considered an error
Hey a graded error card would be a nice collection piece imo
Try to pregrade better and be more diligent. Overlooking white specs will really kill your gemrate. I have a pretty high gemrate around 85-90% because im stern and dont even send cards with small white specs. If it 9’s its because im gambling hoping they 10. But only if its a REALLY close call. But even those i will always assume itll 9. If theres a small white spec anywhere on the corner.. It will almost ALWAYS 9 and i believe that was the case for most of your cards
I will definitely be a bit more diligent with the cards I choose now. Leave no room for questions by the grader.
Illustration arts are just too prone to surface scratches and English have terrible quality control so that's probably why you got so many 9s
i checked the cert numbers on PSA site and many of the IRs had corner whitenings/nicks that's why
Didn’t realize they had grading notes. Learn something new everyday.
Charmander is my favorite Pokémon ever! I also love fuecoco now
33 years old btw
Same here, 33 club
It shouldn’t feel like a conspiracy you didn’t get any 8s. If you’re a good submitter and you analyze them yourself, you should rarely get 8s
This is an excellent point. I let the conspiracy part of my brain take over.
@ also I get the conspiracy part, but let’s also not forget, PSA employs hundreds of graders. If there was some internal mandate about “only allow X number of 10s”, we would have heard about it. Humans can’t keep secrets
Very true. I really hope nothing like that ever comes out. CGC…I’m talking to you!
Seems like psa trying to stay competitive to BGS and TAG grading criteria. Had a similar submission where they hit me with some very questionable 9s that are better than some old 10s. Or they knew I would crack and submit again to milk more money from me.
@ I promise you, PSA does not care one iota about TAG or even BGS at this point
great graded cards, we just sent in a 210 card submission...give us a like and follow, we just became a new sub for you.
Glad you liked the video and thanks so much for the sub. Good luck on your huge submission I am hoping to do a larger submission like that in the near future
@@erikember7 we have a 168 being graded now...soon as we get them back a video will be up for sure.
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haha your "First" medal is in the mail!