Grading Your Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards - PSA or BGS? 

Thanks! And yep I pretty much agree, depending on what kind of collector you are either company could be preferable!

Your vid was great too! You need to make more of them ;)

Thanks for the kind words!

I think it's always wise to have options and competition, PSA has been dominant in the past several years when it comes to YGO but BGS is slowly catching on, that might've put PSA on the edge and hopefully this will raise the bar and standard for both companies to more consistency and less mishaps.

@@Ced7115 Thanks as always! Yeah I agree competition is a good thing for sure, that's another reason I've been supporting beckett lately. Until a couple of days ago all my subs had been absolutely great, but the one I've just got the results back for was extremely disappointing - I'll probably make a vid going through it when the cards are back in my hands just to try and figure out what went wrong exactly

Just a heads up PSA raised prices. Currently for a value of 1000 dollars cards will cost you 64 dollars per card to get it graded.

I can definitely understand this point of view! Imo the main reason it's not like that is down to market share and brand value. Especially for less experienced collectors, they often can't tell the quality of the card very well themselves anyway so they are happy to just go with the standard option of buying PSA and don't factor the actual card quality into the prices they pay

Pretty much XD feels like it's become a race to see who can charge more hahaha

The BGS algorithm is quite complex, it's not a simple average or anything like that. In this case that blue eyes had two 8.5 subgrades, which automatically means the overall grade can't be above 8.5

I could consider it! The problem might just be that it's a bit too much for one video. Even if you only count English LOB prints, there are over 20 in total - 6 european, 2 AE, 1 australian, and at least 15 NA versions. I think I could manage all the 1st ed varieties in one video, but unlimited has so many different printings that it's difficult to fit them all in

Thanks for the suggestion! Grading misprints is very broad topic, since different kinds of misprints can affect the grades in such different ways. In general though, Beckett is always the company that's more willing to label errors and to grade the cards fairly

@@Schloast Thanks! I am really looking forward to if you are planning to make video on this topic. It will be great if you can show some of your misprint collections

I found my LOB unlimited set and some first editions of metal raiders. If your going to send out that set keep researching about centering edging corners and surface. Mainly the centering to save money. Good Luck!

Good point! Although they do change all the time, if I'd compared them at the time of makingthis video BGS would have been way ahead whereas now both companies are extremely slow. At this point you pretty much won't get a sub back from either company in less than half a year unless you pay for express services

Thanks for the comment, and sorry for the late reply! In general I would say PSA is more reputable for grades below a 9. So for example even though BGS 8.5 is technically a higher grade than PSA 8, it's probably easier to sell the PSA 8 for more most of the time because there are just more buyers of low grade cards out there for PSA than BGS. For 9s in yugioh the prices are pretty similar, but again PSA slabs are a little easier to sell. So really it depends whether you are grading for your own collection or to sell, and also your personal preferences with the grading scales and cases!

@@Schloast I'm getting some cards ready to send I'm going to try out psa this time just wish it didn't take so long.

@@AndyseousOdyssey what grading and what cards did you get?

@@chuckmorris3552 I haven’t received my becket cards and it’s been almost a year now. I did receive a few PSA though

I’m not sure why you are mad?, You got blessed with the highest grade that particular card can be worth, now that card as a PSA 10 is worth the max a PSA 10 can go for, and no one should argue because PSA is a professional grading company.

Honestly I don't have any experience with them. From what I hear they're well respected in the sports world but I would probably stay away from sending gaming cards to them. There's no real collector base for yugioh SGC slabs so the resale value wouldn't be great compared to PSA/BGS