Weiss Schwarz Hot Takes - Talking About Graded Cards 

2:15 100% yes

Well, that's one hot topic. Personally I don't think Grading improves the value of your card, it's just ensuring the condition of it as well as protecting it. I'm one of those players, who likes to Foil out his Deck to a certain degree, therefore I would never grade a cars, I would like to use in a Deck. But I think Grading is pretty neat for like protecting the first SP you ever pulled or cards with some emotional value to it. If you are really into trading and selling high priced cards, Grading should be okay, so you and your buyer know exactly what you're dealing with. I've seen many deals where the buyer was like "you said this card's condition is "excellent", but there is one small scratch, it's more like "good", I say it 20 % less worth". These scenarios don't happen with graded cards (but still, there not like 200 % the value of the regular version in my opinion).

I prefer viewing my collection from a binder where they are curated and admired from one place. I lold hard about graded commons 😂

Going into the origins of why people like getting graded cards, it definitely has a lot of it's origin in Pokemon and MTG collecting. The main thing being that, pokemon especially, do NOT have a good record of shipping great condition cards. There are a lot of factors involved but most times when you open a pack of cards, there will be a number of 'problems' with the cards. So when collectors want the best version of a card that's where grading comes in. And to be honest, historically grading has never really pushed the price of cards up an absurd amount. The "investing" aspect of grading is a MUCH more recent trend that was really started by everyone's most loved youtuber: Logan Paul. He was not the first person (there were other channels already starting the investment trend, especially with older stuff) but before his multi-million dollar purchase of a PSA 10 First edition Charizard, the inflation in the market was much more reasonable overall. But because of how big of a name Logan Paul is, his purchase put a lot more eyes on the Pokemon grading scene, which in turn has bled out into a lot of other TCGs as well.

I think you can thank Pokemon for all the joys of grading and investing. Ive heard "well this is how Pokémon does it" between my time around BigB and Whatnot. Those folks ported that ideal into our game when they came for the supposed free tendies that they heard about from Alpha Investments and other Influencers. One thing Ive noticed is it seems is that "Weiss as an investment" crowd is dying off fast. Slabs are going for raw prices on global and the folks that rushed in are getting killed financially. In my travels aroung tcg finance I see a person getting out or fire selling almost daily at this point. One thing you missed in your what makes a card valuable is how little clothes the gals are wearing. I saw an ebay listing where a guy sold a Kodakawa common for 15.99 cause she was nearly naked. The listings had 11 sales. Right now those same folks are going nuts over Azur Lane. On whatnot auction streams I constantly see 1.00 SRs go for a lot because the girl was showing clevage. Gawd I miss 2019 Weiss .

I dont know if people are ready for this

here i thought i am the only one who thinks that "grading" services are a shameless scam and add nothing to the value of any card. sadly people have fomo and are of low iq sometimes and still grade them and proceed to offer their cards for thousands.