Sports Cards Grading Is GMA A Serious Contender?

 

 

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Are We Getting What We Pay For?

After coming across 1,00'0's of ungraded Baseball cards I had to learn the world of Sports Cards grading rather quickly. As went through all of the major graders of course as a lifetime CHEAPSKATE I immediately noticed the services of GMA

Grading services at $2.00 bucks a card. So I sent off few ROOKIES for grading to see what kind of grade they would receive. I also sent off a few to PSA and a couple to Beckett for mostly comparative analysis.

I soon noticed something strange as I began to sell the cards. I noticed for the most part that the majority of the Sports Collectors community really didn't affiliate with GMA. Since I didn't have a personal web presence to offer the cards I sent them out on consignment with some of the largest Card sellers on eBay. To my surprise few of them even accepted cards with the GMA grade attached. The others with Beckett and PSA grades went out and sold very well for substantial profit via consignment. So I looked into a little more. I quickly noticed why, the GMA grade across the board systematically sold for less, a lot less!

I read few articles/reviews on the service as a follow up I found a surprising number of reviews were customers disagreed with the grading placed on their card(s). I also looked at the others and noticed that their reviews were almost the exact opposite, especially the big three

• BCCG - Beckett Collectors Club Grading
• PSA - Proffesional Sports Autheticators  
• SGC - Sportscard Gurantee

In their reviews for the most part over 95% of their grades were taken at face value. With their complaints being  more about pricing (too high), shipping or casing,  yet like I said they're grading was hardly ever question like GMA.  So from an unbiased perspective if you have had a good experience with GMA send me an email I will write about it as well. All in all I wonder when dealing with GMA should I revert back to the age old rule; You get what you pay for? Maybe?

Unfortunately once they are graded we can't ungrade them so it is something to look into thoroughly