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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 12:38 AM | |
Hi,
What is your routine for protecting your cards?
Do you put them inside a penny sleeve and inside a top loader for protecting high value cards? Do you consider grading and slabbing such cards as a necessity?
What about your low value cards, like the junk wax cards? Do you just put them in a 9 pocket sleeve and in a binder? Or, just put them in a shoe box without any sleeves?
For the extremely high value cards, like a 52 Mantle, do you consider putting these in a safe at home, or a safety deposit box at the bank?
Thanks.
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jimetal7212
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 3:09 AM | |
To help, you can do a forum search and see a lot of past threads about this topic
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Dodgydave
Posts: 808
Joined: Apr 2019
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 3:20 AM | |
For more expensive cards a penny sleeve and top loader. (I do this for all memorabilia and autograph cards too,even the lesser value ones). I have a couple of one touches that appeared from somewhere but don't really like them.
Hall of Famer (basketball) cards go in 9-pocket pages in albums, with some/most of the more valuable ones getting penny sleeves as well (RCs and inserts mainly). There's little rhyme or reason here as I am sure there are a whole bunch of cards in the albums that are more "valuable" than some of the top loaded cards.
My mass of commons, and all duplicates, are in 800 count boxes with some of the better player duplicates in penny sleeves along with some RCs and inserts that don't make the Hall of Fame folder but are still good players.
I have never paid to get a card graded (though have picked up the odd one or two over time) as that does not interest me. I guess it can help with protection, though I would probably be more worried about the card getting damaged in the grading process than it will tucked away in my house.
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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 4:38 AM | |
Dodgydave,
Thanks for your helpful response. Why do you feel worried that a card can get damaged in the grading process, especially when dealing with a professional grader like PSA?
I mean, is this something generally frowned upon in the collecting community? I would have thought that graded cards would be immensely more valuable to a collector than a raw card. Do collectors generally reject the grading process?
My only issue with grading is the cost, otherwise, I'd have all my cards graded, not just for protection, but for authenticity and value. Definitely, any extremely high value card will absolutely have to be graded. The chance of a 52 Mantle laying around raw and ungraded is unthinkable to me, but that's just my opinion.
Edited on: Aug 17, 2023 - 4:41AM
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Brandon75
Posts: 134
Joined: Sep 2020
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 8:06 AM | |
I just sent a few cards to get graded for the first time. The only reason I did is I have a customer at our shop that wanted them graded before he buys them. So I did it. Other than that I never grade. Getting them graded adds no protection. I have a Jim Brown rc its been in pages and now in a top loader. The card is perfect in every way. Getting things graded is strictly for $$ IMO. 99% of our cards in the shop are just penny sleeved and put in toploaders.
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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 8:19 AM | |
Brandon75,
Did you charge your customer a fee for handling the grading process for him? I didn't know card shop owners can do that for their customers. I might bring this up to my own shop dealer.
As far as your Jim Brown, how do you know it is authentic? Or if you sell it, how does your customer know it is authentic?
Physical protection, though, in a top loader versus a slab is I suppose the same protection, but I don't know.
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mrmike
Posts: 128
Joined: Sep 2018
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 8:48 AM | |
Mine are in binders. Although the ones I haven't put into binders yet are in top loafers ATM
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rnocards
Posts: 106
Joined: Aug 2023
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 8:56 AM | |
Does anyone here use a slipcase for their binders? If not, do you still keep your binders upright, or do you lay them down?
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Donald Catto
Posts: 22
Joined: Nov 2019
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 10:27 AM | |
Guess it all depends on the person I myself put everything I want to keep in my PC in penny sleeves including doubles than put them all in 5000 count boxes
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Brandon75
Posts: 134
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| Thursday, August 17, 2023 12:13 PM | |
Yes I charge the customer the price of grading cards. Yes the J brown is authentic as I can follow the owners back to the early 80's
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