list of trading card games by popularity

According to the Research Specialist, “for a PSA 10, we’re looking for sharp corners, sharp focus, and the gloss to be pristine.” The other factors he included in this breakdown were “no stains and the image must be centered on the front and the back.” He then got into specific card genres by saying “if we’re talking about CCG’s or TCG’s it’s a literal laundry list of other specifics.”

Understanding the process of how your card gets PSA graded is important to the cost of how much you’re going to spend. For example, say you choose Express, and your card is worth more than its cap at $999 – well, that’s how much your card is going to get quoted unless you move up to the next tier to get a proper price value for a fee. It is important to note also that these services all have a maximum declared value cap as well. The Research Specialist says there are “services like Express that start at $150, Super Express is $300, Walkthrough is $600.” And this isn’t even the end of the services where some start at $3,000-$10,000! So, you can see that to even make a quick buck off your cards you’re going to already have a few bucks saved up for this investment. So, say that a person submits 500 cards or more, they’re going to wait longer than that and spend over a grand for the service.Īlso, there are several different tiers of services provided by the PSA for someone to get their card(s) graded. The Research Specialist told me that “the value begins at $20-$50 per card, but you won’t see that card(s) for a while with the current boom of cards, so about 5-6 months or longer.” It also depends on how many cards someone submits.

Apparently, the estimated time on getting your card graded “depends on how fast you want your cards back.” In other words, there are multiple ways to go about getting your card graded through the PSA. I was curious about how long it would take someone to get a card inspected and graded by the agency.

List of trading card games by popularity