Hello Forum,
Ultra n00b here. I'm trying to determine if it's worth it for me to have my collection graded and encapsulated. I have a small collection of about 100 comics give or take from the 90's. There are a few that could increase in price drastically if I were to use this service. For example, I have the entire Secret Wars collection with the introduction of the "black spider man costume" which we all know what that became. Also, the first issues of Spawn and Deadpool, etc. So i'm wondering if it's best to just submit a few comics versus my entire collection. Most of my comics were read and bagged.boarded or went straight to bagging and boarding without reading. So, i would assume they're NM or Mint.
I've also considered buying comics on auction from Ebay and other sites and possibly submitting them to CGC and turning this into a side hustle. My concern is there's a lot of charges involved. I'm in Charleston, SC so there's not a convention every week with a CGC rep readily available to take my comics so I assume my collection would need to be shipped each time? So there's shipping to CGC, membership cost for CGC, Grading & Encapsulation costs which is based on a percentage of what the comic is worth, and then return shipping costs, and then if I want to sell on ebay there's auction costs. Is this really worth it?
Clearly CGC is doing well for itself, but I would love to hear from actual collectors, buyers, and sellers. thanks!
