That camera has a mind of its own! Ouch! No black labels....Bandai has the best quality of all the trading card companies that I know to include sports cards...but their centering is the only gripe I have with Bandai. Customers deserve top quality not trash carboard. Question - When determining centering on cards like that first "Perona" what portion of the left side of boarder do you reference? Is it the top portion of the boarder or the bottom portion of the boarder, considering the two different boarders? Because they are offset differently from the edge.
Yes it does, but I think we finally turned off all the motion control crap. I always center on the left on the bottom half, since the top half is thicker and juts out more by design.
@@BillionBeri Thank you for the information. I been thinking about sending my One Piece cards for grading but I wasn't sure what is considered the border on those types of cards, with the design change on the left side. Can't wait to see your next video and a video on that grading service you have talked about.
Should be an interesting experiment 😉 We plan to submit soon (going to be a bit costly, so we need to sell some OP08 first), so it'll likely be a video we can finish some time in October/November
I just got 4 of the 1st anniversary chinese sets with the serial numbered namis. I wanted to send them off to becket but now i'm thinking psa maybe? 🤷♂️
What is the turnaround time like these days? I just sent in a base sub and I'm hoping to avoid this grader haha. That was the most harsh centering grading I've ever seen!
@@BillionBeri Dang I'm surprised they are slowing down a bit. Every time I look at the grading charts, Beckett is dead last in number of cards graded per month.
OP01 AA Nami. 10 centering, 10 edges, 10 corners, but 9 surface????? Immediately sleeved after opening and examined with a magnifying glass. Absolutely nothing is wrong with the surface.
@BillionBeri I'm waiting for a return of the entire 1st anniversary set. If I'm not happy with those, I'll be sending in the 9.5 Nami, 9.5 Manga Kid, and others in for GCR. Really looking forward to your GCR vid. Hopefully it goes well for you guys too!
Beckett is local, so we save a lot in Shipping/Insurance. Besides, a PSA 10 is barely more valuable than a BGS 9.5, so if it's a truly good condition card, you are imposing a value ceiling on it by going PSA imo. In the end though, it's all preference.
I think becket just doesn't want to give out black labels.
They are quite stingy.
That camera has a mind of its own!
Ouch! No black labels....Bandai has the best quality of all the trading card companies that I know to include sports cards...but their centering is the only gripe I have with Bandai. Customers deserve top quality not trash carboard.
Question - When determining centering on cards like that first "Perona" what portion of the left side of boarder do you reference? Is it the top portion of the boarder or the bottom portion of the boarder, considering the two different boarders? Because they are offset differently from the edge.
Yes it does, but I think we finally turned off all the motion control crap.
I always center on the left on the bottom half, since the top half is thicker and juts out more by design.
@@BillionBeri Thank you for the information. I been thinking about sending my One Piece cards for grading but I wasn't sure what is considered the border on those types of cards, with the design change on the left side. Can't wait to see your next video and a video on that grading service you have talked about.
Should be an interesting experiment 😉 We plan to submit soon (going to be a bit costly, so we need to sell some OP08 first), so it'll likely be a video we can finish some time in October/November
I just got 4 of the 1st anniversary chinese sets with the serial numbered namis. I wanted to send them off to becket but now i'm thinking psa maybe? 🤷♂️
No reason to necessarily limit yourself to one or the other. If the card looks stellar, BGS. If not, maybe PSA
What is the turnaround time like these days? I just sent in a base sub and I'm hoping to avoid this grader haha. That was the most harsh centering grading I've ever seen!
Indeed it was lol. We used base for a recent order that we submitted August 2nd or thereabouts, and we just got the grade results on Tuesday.
@@BillionBeri Dang I'm surprised they are slowing down a bit. Every time I look at the grading charts, Beckett is dead last in number of cards graded per month.
That's actually pretty fast. Base is 45+ Business Days, and we got our grade results in like 30 ish.
OP01 AA Nami. 10 centering, 10 edges, 10 corners, but 9 surface?????
Immediately sleeved after opening and examined with a magnifying glass. Absolutely nothing is wrong with the surface.
Ouch. Yeah we've tried grading a few of those with not great results too.
@BillionBeri I'm waiting for a return of the entire 1st anniversary set. If I'm not happy with those, I'll be sending in the 9.5 Nami, 9.5 Manga Kid, and others in for GCR. Really looking forward to your GCR vid. Hopefully it goes well for you guys too!
Yeah, we are too! It's the first time we'll have used it, so it should be interesting to see the results!
Why not just go to psa?
Beckett is local, so we save a lot in Shipping/Insurance. Besides, a PSA 10 is barely more valuable than a BGS 9.5, so if it's a truly good condition card, you are imposing a value ceiling on it by going PSA imo. In the end though, it's all preference.