Is this card worth grading?
Grading a card costs real money and four months of waiting, and most cards come back worth less than the fee. This works out the grade you need to break even, what the submission actually costs once shipping and selling fees are in, and your odds of clearing it.
1Which card
2What shape is it in
Centering
Corners
Edges
Surface
Anything on this list
3How you would send it
Got a real sold comp
One real sold price beats every estimate in this app. Paste one if you have it.
Do not send it
Estimates onlyEdge vs selling it raw
-$78.58
Break even
None
Odds
0%
Cost per card
$83.35
1
2
3
4
5
6
77
438
439
710
Show these numbers as a table
| Grade | Chance | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 7.2% | Loses money |
| 9 | 42.7% | Loses money |
| 8 | 42.7% | Loses money |
| 7 | 7.2% | Loses money |
Show every grade and where its price came from
| Grade | Worth | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $96 | Our estimate |
| 9 | $36.8 | Our estimate |
| 8 | $27.2 | Our estimate |
| 7 | $22.4 | Our estimate |
| 6 | $19.2 | Our estimate |
| 5 | $17.6 | Our estimate |
| 4 | $14.4 | Our estimate |
| 3 | $11.2 | Our estimate |
| 2 | $9.6 | Our estimate |
| 1 | $9.6 | Our estimate |
Why
- No grade on the scale pays for the submission on this card. Even a perfect 10 comes back worth less than the fees you paid to get it.
- All in cost is $83.35 per card at a batch of 20, against a PSA Regular sticker price of $79.99. Shipping and supplies are the rest.
- Selling it raw today nets about $19.97 after selling costs. Grading it nets about -$58.61 on average, a difference of -$78.58.
- Graded prices here are era based estimates, not sold comps. Paste one real sold price for the grade you care about and this answer gets far sharper.
- You wait roughly 45 days for the result, and the card is out of your hands the whole time.
- Centering was eyeballed, so the estimate carries more spread than it needs to.
Nets if graded
-$58.61
Nets if sold raw
$19.97