Can You Make Money Grading Sports Cards With SGC? 

Vintage cards in an SGC case look so good

Little Victories Sports Cards has a recent SGC video were he talks about the type of cards he now sends off to SGC and why. With some sales numbers etc. definitely a helpful video. Great video as well. Always love a good experience type video.

Excellent, done with great transparency too. Thank you.

Thank you for your transparency, Troy. I know you've been doing this for a while now, but if you can learn as a result of this (and you made a small profit, or broke even), then it's definitely a worth while exercise. Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas, and a safe and prosperous New Year. 👍

More of this please! Love the transparency from you. Nice work.

Great video. The information you covered in a short time is solid. Keep it up man

I love the concept, would like to see this turn into a series. Some of your struggles were just the market not being as strong as it used to be, also some of the card chooses. That Patrick Bailey card would have been better off if it was a numbered or autographed first bowman or a really low numbered mojo for it to get a premium once graded. Really dig the experiment, would like to see more of this.

I appreciate a comprehensive assessment of your cards

Good video. I like SGC they are consistent, fast, and have the best customer service. Some cards look great with the black border. I don’t like consignment with DCsports. Lots of eyes but they don’t put in the item details so I think that misses a lot of saved searches. That being said you weren’t necessarily sending them super rare cards that people necessarily would have saved searches for. Anyway, a profit is a profit 🎉

Great video and editing! Very concise and informative.

Great video brotha I believe in my opinion, that SGC is so undervalued and should have some same or close to the same as PSA

You mentioned it, but definitely can't be sending most of these cards to auction

Wondering what it would look like if you compared what yours sold at vs the same card sold raw around the same time. I admit that SGC isn’t adding a ton of value but I find it hard to believe that it doesn’t add any at all. Thanks for this, new subscriber here. Appreciate the work your doing

I liked this vid. Hopefully the market goes back up.

Very cool video! Always wanted to try this

Haha.. just got a card off you on ebay. Hopfully you made some loot on it had my eye on it, didnt even know it was yours till your shared your ebay store. Hope you have a good christmas.

SGC is fast with good customer service, but if you want to sell them later, they will not sell without significant discounts. Speed is only good when you are churning and burning.

Plz make this a series

The moral of the story is that it is hard to make money buying and selling graded cards. I am a WhatNot addict and I am shocked how cheaply I can buy cards, PSA and SGC 10's for $4. I paid $24 for 10 SGC 9.5's of second year Ohtani's. Thanks for doing this another solid video.

As a card dealer, you certainly know a lot more than I do. I am just curious how you would have done selling everything on your eBay page as opposed to using that other company. Your feedback is excellent and I think that makes a big difference. Just my humble opinion.

All about timing when selling cards especially with sgc. I graded a wander franco green foil rookie when he was the top player. The product just came out i got his rookie sent to sgc it graded a 8.5 and managed to sell it for 550. There is a possibility to make money but all about timing plus market on cards isnt as high right now.

the key is having an eye for what THE COMPANY YOU USE considers 10s (bad centering avoid sgc, whitening, avoid psa) i agree 9.5 sucks i sell all my non 10s from SGC and hoarde the 10s. Im happy pokemon tcg grading is $9 a card, makes life so much easier

I’d be curious to see what the same cards in the same grades with PSA would sell for? … Maybe the same outcome of a small profit / break even? … Good video. ✊…..

Give me a advice, is better in ebay put but now or place bid?

I've graded 200+ with PSA and 400+ with SGC. SGC are IMO more correct with the grades, faster turnaround, better service, better looking. PSA is flippers favourite, just sheeps 😂

Why are the grading companies still charging ridiculous fees? It doesn't make sense

I'll take that grade 7 Burrow off your hands. I'm just a huge Bengals fan and that's all I collect. I would never get rid of any Bengals card.

great video

SGC should be over PSA now. PSA is inconsistent. SGC are hard graders, but accurate.

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1. $100 card 2. $30 grading fee (PSA) 3. $15 Shipping and insurance fee. 4. Cards sells at auction for $150 give or take= $5. Would someone explain the benefits to having cards graded? I have several Barry Bonds and Bo Jackson RC's that I have wanted to get graded but cant really see the time invested/ money made ratio worth it.

Good experience, still SGC is way better to make fast profit, so you can move cards faster in your collection.

Sgc is the way to go fast turnaround great customer service and to me profit is profit psa takes for ever to come back on top of that u get 9s u losing money aswell … so I rather send to sgc get them back quick while the player is hot and make profit quickly

sorry, but SGC does not appeal to me, unless it's either very low priced or popular vintage card.

Non-numbered modern cards are just too volatile (and too readily available). Unless you get an idiot like me who has been known to impulse buy/overpay for slabbed 8's and 9's.

It's probably best to target rare older cards and sell them ungraded. Been buying cards for $3 and selling them for $325. Rare Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Mike Tyson etc cards sell well

Thanks I will never go sgc. Psa for the win

2 things i learned from this video 1. Stick to Ebay when selling. 2. Don't send cards for grading unless they are flawless. Good video btw, my balls aren't big enough for experiments like this 😅

PSA holds value better than any other grading service. Always has and always will. You can find examples where this is not true but not on the grand scale.

The real lesson to be learned here is that not every modern card needs to be graded.

Timing is the most important part of selling. However speed is not timing. People think speed is important 😂

Bruh, how can you be into soccer and butcher Szoboszlai’s name so badly 🤣. That had me rolling! Lol

SGC fanboys fear this man

Moral of the story, don’t send in cheap cards, don’t send in expensive cards, don’t sell at auction

So it is a bad economy right now, grading just doesnt seem worth the price.

Not sure when you actually sold these cards, but Nov/Dec is not the time to be.a seller. I appreciate the intent, but I dont understand the experiment, when you dont think it all the way through.

Good video. You lost money when including your time and overhead costs.

It’s safe to say you can’t make much money from grading cards with sgc. Because after watching that video was solid proof! Which is why I don’t use sgc ever. The end results were atrocious after what you invested. I make far more profit selling on fb marketplace vs sgc. PSA is much better right now either. There’s way too many fees in this industry which chokes the life out of it & hardly anyone is making good money now. Which makes it not worth the risk anymore.

Just came from the card shop selling off some of my cards my SGC cards were basically worth nothing...

So, if you bought a card for $10. raw…..then graded it for $15. You get $25. What about the shipping and taxes for each card purchased? Did you factor that in your calculations? If not, than you are losing my friend….

More older cards are better with sgc

So… in conclusion, the winners here appears to be the people who sold the card raw, the grading company, and the selling platform. 🤔

The only time that I'll look at SGC stuff is to assess it to crack and resub to PSA. Yes, maybe you could try to hold out for more on SGC slabs, but I think that the way that you sold them is very telling. I see a lot of SGC sellers who put them up for Buy It Now prices that are comparable to PSA, or they run auctions with high starting bids, and the stuff just sits there week after week with zero interest. Running auctions the way that you did shows the true value of grading with SGC, and it's really unimpressive.

My first submission was SGC, and this was not too long ago, the card was selling between $40 to $70 raw, so I decided to test the water of grading cards, SGC was my first choice, I got a 9.5 grade, and the card was sold on ebay best offer 1.1k. I think its really defends of the card, some people who really collects see the real value and will pay top dollars. So I will be sending my cards to SGC because of my experience.

People aren't spending money on cards anymore. People found hobbies during covid, also the government isn't giving out money.

$30 profit for Hours and hours of work... waste of time and money

You lost money…think about the amount of time you put into all of it

You can barely make money with psa no you can’t make much with sgc

That profit was so damn laughable

TAG has the best looking slabs out there. I don’t understand the love for SGC. They are unreliable and expensive.

No lol no you can’t use psa lmfao

Let’s break this down rationally. Look i understand ur influencer and need to make these type of videos. But I think the lesson learned here is no one should make flipping graded cards their full time job. You profited only $25 after how many hours? You probably made $.35 an hour. That’s pathetic. Lesson here folks: this is a hobby not a job. Go get a real job that pays $15/$20 an hour and make real money and be a productive member of society. Kids who are 10-16 years old watching ur cool sports card influencers on RU-vid. Learn from this. This is a liquid market and you will lose money 99% of the time unless you have rich parents or sponsors like these guys who most likely don’t pay for their product. Do this for fun not profit

“Can you make money with cards?” No. Time to grow up and get a real job/career. I’m sure it was fun while it lasted but time to be an adult.

A week turn around is absolutely insane tbf! Great video as always sir and congrats on those grades 🫡 the difference I’ve had recently with being patient and listing as buy it now compared to eBay auctions is insane