Tszii wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:Grading doesn't matter if you are not interested in the value or preservation beyond your own collection. However, it does provide the hobby a yardstick it didnt have before. How many points are removed from rusty staples? Spine creases? Torn pages? Stains? Is that 9.0 NM or 7 VF? It will take years, but newer collectors are going to rely on third party authentication, not a sellers evaluation. Which, like home inspections or mechanic's opinion, is a good practice. I am completing a submission to CGC, which will take around nine months to receive back.Btw, I understand there is one grader of sealed modules, and I dont think CGC will do that. There could be smaller graders I am unaware of. Some folks just dont like grading or the monopoly it can create. I know some folks may not like this or simply not care at all. But yes, I want to change my display room to slabs.
dbartman wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:Just like comics, it's usually not worth doing, unless you have a fairly valuable item. If it's a lower grade item, it might not be worth it either.In this case, it's paid off for the seller. They already sold another module for way more money than it's worth! ** expired/removed eBay auction **The sale price was $375!The average price for all conditions of I6 (SW sales included) is around $75. This one probably should have been around $50-60 max.
dbartman wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:Just like comics, it's usually not worth doing, unless you have a fairly valuable item. If it's a lower grade item, it might not be worth it either.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:Is this the same company that certifies baseball shirts and restaurant napkins etc.?Or is that another certifying outfit?
Blackmoor wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:Many in the "Old School" will scoff at it all with reactions like "What is the point of incasing it, you cant read it". Well serious collectors rarely open there shrink wrap items to read them, they get poor copies or download a PDF of it to read.Graded items really will bring in a new breed of enthusiast; it revolutionized comic, cards, and coins collecting and will do the same for collectable games. Hopefully they start to do Hardcovers and oversized items (Like Greyhawk Folder and 2nd ed Monsters Compendiums) as well.
Sir Kill Alot wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:I would also have to get over the hump of sending my stuff out to be processed for months (6?) at a time.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:I don’t think I could collect anything I couldn’t touch, read and enjoy.And how many mis-graded MTG cards have there been since people started putting them on their wall?It’s just another version of shrinkwrap, only this time they’re trying to legitimise shrinkwrapping things that aren't new, and have a much better way of guaranteeing you won’t open it because they are the experts and they’ve given you a sticker to prove it.
mbassoc2003 wrote in Your opinion doesnt matter anymore:So it’s in a sealed box that cannot be opened and you only have the seller’s word that it is collectible quality (and a third party who he has paid money to for the plastic box).If you open the box to look at the item it is by that very action no longer in the condition it was certified to be in by CGC.You can never look at what you bought, or even touch it.So what happens if you buy a copy of a module written by Frank M, and were lucky enough to get it signed by him a couple of pages in, and at the same time Tom Wham did a few doodles on a couple of pages of a snit chasing a creature through your module?It gets graded up or down based on how much money you are willing to pay for that decision, sealed in a box, and you never get to see the signatures or the cartoons ever again?That’s the problem with grading. You can only ever see two pages. Did some guy pay $600. $60 for a module and $540 for a plastic tray to keep it in?
