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Master Alarcon

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  1. Hello friends, I have a small collection of soccer cards from FUTERA, the cards are very beautiful but they can be kind of thick , I don't know how thick they are, not sure how to measure that, I will post some pics.

    have you guys send any Futera cards for grading?

     

    Here you can see 3 cards from Futera and in the bottom is one from Panini for comparison 

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    Here you can see, they are basically the same, is the thickness that is different.

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    This one is about 2 or maybe 3 times thicker.

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    Now this one is the thickets of them all, about 5 or 6 Panini cards

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    What you guys think?  

  2. On 1/13/2021 at 10:21 AM, Sambuck2 said:

    Yeah I'm on business day 38 for my bulk order that was received weeks before the change to 60 day estimate. So not sure what to expect

    I am on my 3rd month and finally my cards are now been grading, so expect more than 60 days, I want to say, for future submissions expect 4 to 6 months because of the surge of new people wanting  to grade their cards.

  3. 13 hours ago, Ron Churches said:

    I have the Neo 2 folder and I love it.  I've considered grading the Typhlosion, but I kinda like having the binder complete.  There's 1-2 cards in each of those that do very well if you get high grades, but that's really just if you're looking to sell them.  I've seen complete sets graded out and sold, but the price was definitely driven by the top card(s) and I doubt you get a great ROI on grading the less desirables.  You gotta think that the binder page they include with that isn't exactly archival quality, so cards that that Charizard and Happy Birthday Pikachu might need to be set aside in something a little more protective, as the years pile up.  

    I just love the way they look on the binder, I wish there was a way to preserve the hole thing.

  4. 1 hour ago, 1950's war comics said:

    you will have to do some research by going to eBay completed sales lists to find out which ones have value

    and then if you have a group of valuable ones that are in real nice condition or a few individual ones worth good money then it would be worth sending them off and getting them graded 

    imo.

    Thank you my friend.

  5. Hello every body, Master Alarcon here again with another post.

    I need help deciding what to do with a collection of binders that I have, I want to know if it is worth taking the cards out of the binders and get them in to slabs or maybe it's better to leave then on the binders.

    Here are some pics: 

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    Thanks in advance for any advise.

     

     

     

  6. 12 hours ago, FearlessPC said:

    Just made a post on here about my cards as my grades finally came in today! They received them last Monday and they were shipped out today. Less than two weeks for Standard grading with sub-grades. Not bad at all! I should be getting them in the mail early next week :)

    Wow, that is awesome, congrats.

    Me, I think I made a mistake, when I send my cards last Monday I use the address I found on the website, and, stupid me, did not realized that the address was on the email that they send as a confirmation of submission and is different, I suppose  to send them here PO Box 4701 but I wrote PO Box 4738, I hope that i don't have to wait too long, lesson learn.

  7. 14 hours ago, FearlessPC said:

    I haven't heard anything about it, but I think it'd be awesome. If they do it, it might be awhile since it would require different sized slabs than what they currently use. 

    I'd personally also like to see them add a pop report (they said it will be coming sometime in the future) as well as adding Yu-Gi-Oh card grading.

     

    Side note: Best of luck with getting your cards graded. I hope you get some awesome grades. I'd never sent off any of my cards for grading anywhere before either and I just sent them my first ever batch of cards last week. I should be getting them back in about a month :)

     

     

     

    Awesome! upload some pics, I will put some of mine, I got to get me some semi-rigid sleeves and I think I will send them on Monday.