PSA Grade Reveal (from COMC Grading Submissions) 

That sounds like a better way to do it. Get your eyes actually on the cards first.

Thanks!

Glad you enjoyed the video Dylan!

I did do a pre-screen on three cards so far, all three of them came back suggested not to send for grading (so basically I paid $5 for what would normally be a $2 elite listing with a better scan). I sent one of them off anyways (a Finest Durant rookie) and it ended up getting a PSA 9. That's been the entirety of my pre-screening experience. I did do a couple of card grading things that ended up really low though, so had I done this, it might have helped me. $5 is just kind of a lot, I'm already like 1/4th of the way to just paying for grading there, so it's hard for me to justify using the service much.

I def agree. I don't think I'm gonna buy cards from the platform to go direct to grading, unless I'd wanna do it no matter what the grade ends up being. Just too hard to see the pictures. I might use them more like a grading submitter if they are cards I already have in hand though. Could be a good option for cards I would be planning to sell on the platform eventually anyways.

Glad you enjoyed the video, Ziggy! I did send one to the pre-grading service. But I spent $5 and really got nothing besides a 'not suggested to send to grading' kind of message. If I'm spending $5, I really wanna know something about why. So I'm not gonna do that anymore, unless maybe it was a really really high end card. Then maybe. I didn't do any elite submissions either, just because I didn't want to spend that extra $2, and then find that the updated scan really barely gives me any extra information. Those $2 upgraded scans are sometimes better, but just as often not really that much different for being able to see some details. I did purposefully send off a few cards that were already elite when I bought them. But I feel like that elite scan just doesn't give me enough information to help me much in making a decision. I think the way I'll most likely use the grading thing with COMC from here on is similar to what you say. Use them kind of like a group submitter, sending in cards I've got in hand that I can actually look at closely in person before sending off for grading.

Yeah, but then you have to pay the $2 extra, and really I still have trouble seeing surface issues or some of the same things I have trouble seeing on the regular scan. It might give me a little bit of a better idea, but I feel not that much of a better idea.

100% still a gamble

Glad you enjoyed it Orlando!

You're probably right

I like CGC as a company, but for sports cards they don't seem to sell super well. I don't buy many Pokémon, but as far i understand CGC does pretty well when selling. Marvel probably too, since it's a well known brand to comic book people too.