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Originally Posted by aggie4ever
Yes, it is easy to submit on your own. But it's even easier to submit through GameStop, and there are several good reasons why it's better too.
It's a lot cheaper for shipping. On your own, it's like $10-20 to PSA, and back is $20-25 since you no longer put in DV's. You used to be able to do a 20 card bulk order and choose your DV's to keep it under $1k total DV and have shipping costs of $12 or $14. But not anymore. With a GameStop Pro membership, it's only $5 for shipping.
You don't need to get a PSA membership. Instead of $150 for a PSA membership, you pay only $25 for a GameStop Pro membership. And get a coupon for $5 off each month. And earn points on your grading costs for more $ off.
And you can send in fewer cards in each order. I typically send in 4 - 10 cards each time. To get the bulk rates sending in on your own, you have to send in a minimum of 20 cards. I find not having a minimum to be convenient.
And if you've actually used GameStop, you know they aren't manhandling your cards. You bring in the cards already in Card Savers, they spread them out on the counter to take pictures, and put stickers on the back of them. Then they put the stack of Card Savers in a bag that gets sealed up.
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All solid points. One other nice thing with Gamestop that I absolutely
hated with grading on my own with PSA (and very few people mention) is that 1980 cut-off for batches of cards.
Have 20 cards that qualified for a bulk rate with PSA? Awesome.
Oh wait, three of those cards are from 1979? Nope. All cards in the batch need to be pre or post 1980. Can't mix n match for the bulk rate.
With Gamestop, (or other grading companies like SGC), you could have a two card order, one 1979 card and one 1981 card and it's the same cheap bulk rate i
n one order for just two cards. On your own, that's two separate orders, along with separate return shipping costs and separate turnaround times for reach card. Argh.
Gamestop solves that. Easy.