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AgronAlum

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We’ve got everything from Pokemon to 1970s baseball to 2024 NBA. There are a ton of apps out there to tell you values and log your collections. Does anyone have any real experience with any of them?

My son has scanned a few cards into an app called Ludex and has given ungraded values on some of them between 50 and 200 dollars. I’m not really sure if the app is worth a **** or some of this stuff should be sent off the get graded.
 
Gunnerclone said:
I use Collectr for TCG cards. I don’t know what the standard is for sports cards.
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The TCG cards are the ones that brought the most value of the ones that were scanned outside of some newer rookie cards like Ant Man and Wembanyama. Ludex graded a Charizard card my son had at 185. Is something like this worth being graded? It’s pretty flawless.

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Cyclonepride said:
The actual value of anything is the amount that someone is willing to pay for them, and there is nothing that this applies to more than trading cards.
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I agree and there are apps that claim to look at purchased cards and give values. I just don’t know if any of them are good or not.

They may or may not be but I view card shops kind of like pawn shops. They’re gonna fleece you if they can. Better to do the research on your own but we have thousands of cards.
 
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AgronAlum said:
The TCG cards are the ones that brought the most value of the ones that were scanned outside of some newer rookie cards like Ant Man and Wembanyama. Ludex graded a Charizard card my son had at 185. Is something like this worth being graded? It’s pretty flawless.

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I’d check eBay before you decide to grade it. And to find out if it’s worth grading and selling, verify that it’s still worth a decent amount even if it gets a bad grade. Most of these graders look at these under a microscope and their job is to find flaws. Unfortunately it’s also extremely inconsistent as well
 
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Ludex gives a value of what others cards sold for on eBay as an estimate. It does not determine condition or grade the card.
 
I use ebay and do my best to compare conditions to make a reasonable comp for price. Would you move the baseball in bulk?
 
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AgronAlum said:
The TCG cards are the ones that brought the most value of the ones that were scanned outside of some newer rookie cards like Ant Man and Wembanyama. Ludex graded a Charizard card my son had at 185. Is something like this worth being graded? It’s pretty flawless.

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Just depends on what you want to do with it. The value isn’t there imo for a PSA 9 compared to raw if you’re looking to sell. So best to not miss. I would get a good old fashioned centering tool on Amazon if you don’t have one. V cards can be tricky on the fronts.
 
AgronAlum said:
The TCG cards are the ones that brought the most value of the ones that were scanned outside of some newer rookie cards like Ant Man and Wembanyama. Ludex graded a Charizard card my son had at 185. Is something like this worth being graded? It’s pretty flawless.

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I would post this and put a 175 price OBO on it on eBay. Be willing to go 150 and be happy with a nice return.
 
AgronAlum said:
The TCG cards are the ones that brought the most value of the ones that were scanned outside of some newer rookie cards like Ant Man and Wembanyama. Ludex graded a Charizard card my son had at 185. Is something like this worth being graded? It’s pretty flawless.

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Pricecharting.com is the best resource I’ve used. Shows actual sales data for different grade. That card in particular it would say is $150 raw or $300ish in PSA 10. However it is flat, or lower value at a 9 or below. This varies quite a bit depending on the card of course.

PSA cost is usually $25/card ballpark plus or minus a fair bit depending on desired turn around time, quantity being graded, etc. It’s always a tough call to grade or not. Newer cards tend to only gain significantly more value as a PSA 10. I think that’s largely from people ripping packs and putting them straight in sleeves to get graded. Older cards were typically actually played with back in the day when it wasn’t a just a collectors item. So there are smaller populations of the grades and lower grades are more acceptable/valuable and are a means of verifying authenticity.
 

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One of these days i need to pull out my basketball card collection and see if anything is worth something now. Probably mostly 90's era cards with some older cards mixed in. Have read that the value on those vary as it was a popular era to collect so there is a lot of inventory available. I have some Jordan cards that may be worth something but I assume if I hold on them they will keep increasing in value.
 
I've collected baseball cards my entire life and have always used Beckett for pricing...both their website and their book which i like to get once every 5 years.

As someone mentioned ebay is a great barometer of going rates, too.
 
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AgronAlum said:
The TCG cards are the ones that brought the most value of the ones that were scanned outside of some newer rookie cards like Ant Man and Wembanyama. Ludex graded a Charizard card my son had at 185. Is something like this worth being graded? It’s pretty flawless.

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Wemby has like 2 or 3 of the top 10 cards that were the highest submitted for grading this year. There are likely going to be tons of 10's out there so there won't be much of a market for anything lower. His market will be flooded, prices probably won't go down a ton but they are so high right now that he'll need to do amazing things for them to go up any higher, that will likely take him a few years. If you had someone look at it that really knew their stuff and thought it was a 10, it might be worth a shot but anything lower than a 10 will have similar value to a raw card.
 
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Wemby has like 2 or 3 of the top 10 cards that were the highest submitted for grading this year. There are likely going to be tons of 10's out there so there won't be much of a market for anything lower. His market will be flooded, prices probably won't go down a ton but they are so high right now that he'll need to do amazing things for them to go up any higher, that will likely take him a few years. If you had someone look at it that really knew their stuff and thought it was a 10, it might be worth a shot but anything lower than a 10 will have similar value to a raw card.
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We are definitely in a “junk-grading” era. The new chase is going to be finding 0-certs.
 
lol. I gave away my card collection, and its probably worth a mint today. had a complete set of 1934 goudy (i think thats it) complete with a Gerig and ruth. I had an 1887 card, i think, of walter johnson maybe? i had a lot of famous guys in the early 1910ish cigarette cards. I had mint condition pete rose rookie card, and a card of pete rose for every year he played. I even had a honus wagner card, but it was on poor condition. my most valuable card was a ted williams card i paid 300 bucks for back in mid 1970's. it was supposedly a rare year.

i also had horning in football as well as about every famous football player who ever played. Bronko Nagurski. ya title. sammy baugh. i had the black pitcher, satchell paige. quite the collection. but as i got old, my interest waned, and i couldnt bring myself to sell it, so i gave it all to some kids.
jack Johnson boxing card.
 
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