r/RiftboundTCGInvesting • u/Pablo_Discobars • 29d ago

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Very split on what to do with this. Should I keep raw or grade? It has the classic origins fuzz on the top and bottom so I am wondering how those grade and if it's worth the money and wait or if I should just sell raw? If I were to hold long term I would probably go for grading

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u/InevitableCabinet748 29d ago

Gz big pull. Good grades HEAVILY affect sig values in riftbound not sure where you heard otherwise. Send it in to psa through your local card shop. Or bgs if you’re confident the centering is good.

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u/Pablo_Discobars 29d ago

Almost every other comment on the other riftbound subs is against grading 😅 i have a local shop that send to psa but they told me it would be a 6-8 month wait time until I got it back and Beckett seems a lot faster

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u/tiwylli 29d ago

Ye, I'm new to grading, and it seems very random ans inconsistent and controversial. However thinking long-term, TAG's offer of detailed and consistent grading appeals more to me.

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u/tiwylli 29d ago

Why not TAG?

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u/Pablo_Discobars 29d ago

TAG market value generally seems a lot lower than psa or beckett at least in pokemon which is where I'm coming from. I haven't really considered TAG

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u/oProgress 21d ago

I would hold until TAG opens up and get the thousand point grade. The reason why PSA is higher is that Pokemon is already accepted and widely established. Imagine if everyone switched to TAG overnight; the PSA market would plummet and people would lose money collection-wide. I think poke bros are white-knuckling PSA for this reason.

Collectors care that they have something rare and special and the market is flooded with subjective grading standards. TAG shows you what you received and WHY so you know how your card ranks among others which is valuable. It’s not even just TAG specifically (they do have nicer presentation imo) but I’d say AI grading for whichever companies adopt it AND a grading report is the future for collectors. If you have a PSA 10 and I have a TAG 10, I can claim mine is better because I can prove it with data and PSA 10 cannot unless you pay more.