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.
That could have easily been summed into "Blame Logan Paul" bro XD But it's definitely sad about it's bled over into other TCGs, we can only hope that it eventually stops (not likely, i realize, but hopium)
@BaseDamage true, but I did want to preface with why it has always been popular in the pokemon community, and just reinforcing the fact that this is a much more recent thing cause... Blame Logan Paul
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).
9:25 100% yes raw card is money for the player is the good price But is not the player triple or more money I tell other people look for the price in the C or R
End Video [Collection is 1st made the game not fun] Bushiroad force not player get the set or you have Bushinavi is base price and the not player is the highest price
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 .
yeah, i wasn't sure if i should bring up the "weiss is an investment" videos i had seen. I was worried it would start unnecessary drama if I did XD But you're completely right I figured the little amount of clothes was already factored into the waifu tax x3
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.
I kinda thought it was useful but when I see PSA tens with whitening on the card and stuff it really makes me second guess my thoughts on it. Also I always wondered what makes a grading company staff any better then me at judging a card. Not like there is a college course for collectible card standards.
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.
That could have easily been summed into "Blame Logan Paul" bro XD
But it's definitely sad about it's bled over into other TCGs, we can only hope that it eventually stops
(not likely, i realize, but hopium)
@BaseDamage true, but I did want to preface with why it has always been popular in the pokemon community, and just reinforcing the fact that this is a much more recent thing cause...
Blame Logan Paul
@@ntwelve1025 that's fair x3
to be honest i'm not as knowledgeable about the pokemon side of things
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 totally advocate keeping certain cards protected and safe. That's completely fair. Especially if it does have emotional value or anything.
Grading always increases the vaule no matter how u wanna look at it buddy.
I prefer viewing my collection from a binder where they are curated and admired from one place. I lold hard about graded commons 😂
Believe me, it was all i could do not to ask the guys who were selling the graded commons and rares what they were smoking XD
it's ridiculous lol
2:15 100% yes
4:58 All Bushiroad TCG highlight is ok
9:25 100% yes
raw card is money for the player is the good price
But is not the player triple or more money
I tell other people look for the price in the C or R
End Video [Collection is 1st made the game not fun]
Bushiroad force not player get the set or you have Bushinavi is base price and the not player is the highest price
I dont know if people are ready for this
oh but they are
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 .
yeah, i wasn't sure if i should bring up the "weiss is an investment" videos i had seen. I was worried it would start unnecessary drama if I did XD
But you're completely right
I figured the little amount of clothes was already factored into the waifu tax x3
@@BaseDamage , na cause the people chasing skin cards don't even know who the characters are outside of maybe their name and series.
@@audrisampson You right x3
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.
nah, you're not the only one. It's gotten way out of hand and I can only hope more people bring awareness as to how much of a scam it is
I kinda thought it was useful but when I see PSA tens with whitening on the card and stuff it really makes me second guess my thoughts on it. Also I always wondered what makes a grading company staff any better then me at judging a card. Not like there is a college course for collectible card standards.