For any facet of the hobby, knowing the importance of graded vs. ungraded cards is essential. Some of thetop grading services, including PSA, BGS, and SGC, work to authenticate a rare trading card and bolster its value in the secondary market. In recent years, early Charizards and other ...
A Brand Protection team with PSA, a third-party authentication and grading company, had been working with the FBI in building a case against Curcio, as many of the card had been sold in fake PSA holders. The company said anyone who purchased a PSA-graded item and would like to confirm t...
https://www.pokemon.com/uk/pokemon-news/pokemon-tcg-scarlet-and-violet-revamps-pokemon-tcg-card-aesthetic#:~:text=New Rarity Symbols&text=The solid black symbols for,expansion%2C including parallel foil cards. Reminds me of card games like Weiss now that all kinds of crazy rarities and desi...
Yeah grading is a bit complicated for PSA, as you need to send your cards over to the USA but there has recently been a few UK based companies open, I personally won't use them but it does make the process a lot easier. I do find the idea of ten year old kids getting cards grad...
I sometimes do this because it's cheaper to buy an 8 from a lesser-respected grading company than it is to buy a raw NM copy of an old card that comes with some sort of guarantee of the "NM" actually being NM. People tend to steer away from 7s and 8s but they often look like ...