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I had 5 Votto cards I wanted graded. One was removed from a PSA graded 9 to see what GMA would give it. The other 4 was from my PC that I was sure wouldn't grade a 10, maybe a 9. And 5 of my sons Pokemon cards, that was perfect. None of these cards was sent in to be sold. All are for our PC.

Here's what I got back. All five votto cards was graded 9. Even the PSA 9. The Pokemon cards all graded 10 which I agree on. All was labeled correctly. Nice holders. The turnaround time was about 9 days. I'm very happy with their service. Ive heard bad stories about GMA and good. I'm here to give good news. Very pleased

Price breakdown

10 cards x $4 = $40 

Shipping from GMA = $18

Shipping to GMA with $300 insurance = $10.15

$68.15 for 10 cards.

Nice, thanks for the info.

It's good to see that PSA is getting some competition after all that been said on different sports card forums. There's another grading company that just started grading sports cards too. It's Certified Collectibles Group. It guess they have been grading coins and paper money for a long time.

I have nothing to do with CCG. I've never sent in any cards to be graded to any company. I do have a few older pre-war card that I bought already graded by PSA and SGC. My graded cards range from an authentic grade to a PSA 8 for graded packs and from a grade of 1 poor and up to a PSA 6 for one or two other cards. And grades between a 1 and 6 grade. I buy the card. Not the grade.

I have gotten several GMA graded cards on eBay in the last few months.  I bought them for the card, not the grading, but I was imprtessed that cards graded 10's were legit and cards graded 9 & 8 were also accurately graded.  From a small sample, I would say that GMA graded consistently.  Which is better than others of bigger reputations.  The cases were nice as well.

Greg

I think I will be using GMA for my PC submissions when I get around to doing that.  PSA and BCG still hold the better value for items I would want graded to sell, but I'm also not there yet either.  By the time I am ready to submit for sale, GMA may have closed the gap even more.

Great info. Been meaning to get some things graded and was hoping to get them back THIS YEAR...... lol.

The turnaround time was impressive. I've already gathered 100 cards I'm getting graded. There's a discount with 100 cards, only $3.50 each. I'll make another forum post when they arrive back. If I was selling I'd probably go with PSA but for my PC I'm pleased with GMA. Hopefully resell value of GMA will be better in 20 years when I retire. 

Great to read that you liked GMA.  I also have some PC stuff I would like to get graded.  Once my work settles down I will look into to them for grading.

Thank you for the post.  I have sent 2 orders (a total of 81 cards) to GMA and like you I received both back within 10 days.  Like you these were PC cards and not high value ones.  However, since I like the graded card look (though don't own many and often out of budget) I gave GMA a try.

I am very pleased with the results I have had so far.  The service can't be beat for encapsulating cards, pricing is fair, grading seems decent and the case/label are nice.  I will be sending more to them in the future as well.  As far as later return value, these are cards I'm not really looking to move and I figure if they look alright to me, that works!  If I had high value cards, I'm not sure I would send GMA based on potential monetary value, but for everything else I'm in.

Between my 2 orders, there was really only one small item I noted.  The horizontal view cards were inserted into holders in different ways.  As you hold the card to view, sometimes the label was on the left and on next card had the label to right.  I know it's a small item, but did stick out to me.

Anyhow, Glad to hear there are others as pleased with GMA as I have been so far.

Looked through their site and didn't find too much.....do they grade vintage tougher or more lax?

From what I have been hearing is that Becket right now is the way to go for grading of newer cards and PSA is still the way to go with Vintage.   I have a few vintage I want to get graded mainly for them being slabbed in my PC.  Any feedback on their autograph authentication also?  Have some vintage IP autos I would like to have encapsulated also.

Thanks for any feedback.....