Want the see a baseball card price go up?  Graded cards, some will argue that grading cards is a waste of time and money, others will profess that it is the best thing since sliced bread.  I have, in the past battled the pros and cons of grading cards, as well as which company to choose to do the grading. The big three for my money, Beckett Grading, PSA Grading and SCG Grading.

I pretty much will not stray too far from those, but I have had some graded by GAI ( Global Authentication), but not too much. Overall a pretty good experience with GAI, I just do not care too much for the protective case.  Like with anything that involves my hard earned money, I have run my own test, and are willing to share the experiment results with you. I would say that every card grading company has its own specialty, even though the result should be the same across the board. We know that not to be the case, as far as reputability goes. I have learned the following, I will never send another vintage card to Beckett Grading.  For reasons of longevity, most people had already established and built many vintage graded card registries with PSA and continue to build those and update them, so selling a vintage card graded by say Beckett Grading (whom by the way is very reputable) you would actually be selling yourself short, and although the baseball card price will always increase with a grading from these companies, you may actually affect the price of your registry set in a negative way.

I will give you an actual example that occurred to me. 1975 Topps Mini Frank Robinson card, graded by BVG ( Beckett Vintage Grading) a 9.0 pretty tough grade, we will agree. The card realized $90.00 on EBay last year. That card would fetch easily $300.00 had it been graded by PSA, is there any doubt? Check the history for the 1975 Topps mini cards. I believe BVG, BGS do grade their cards harshly, that is fine. Integrity is good, not good enough for my vintage cards. Another example was a 1961 Topps Ron Santos rookie card, I submitted the card for grading through BVG, the card was returned a BVG 8.5. The card realized a total sum of $88.00 dollars on EBay, I believe that the actual price would have easily been $200.00 plus for a PSA 9.

Grading cards is a nice way to go whether for your personal collection, or for selling. You just have to be smart about who is going to get your graded cards submission.  Good Luck with your future submissions!