Noob wants to submit a couple for grading 0

[Silveradot]

Hey all just got into collecting recently when a friend of mine was selling his collection,I asked him if he had any Wolverines and it went from there.Bought a pretty good stack of books,some seem good ASM 101-102-135 are just a few that I picked up.So my question is how do I determine declared value when submitting because these books seem to be all over the place price wise and I’m not even sure that I’m correct on the grades of them from what I have read on grading.If I put down $200 for ASM 101 and they think it’s more how does that work.Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[Radricky]

I would like to know this also. Where do you get the value from? Is it eBay? 

If I send in an ultimate fallout 4 for example is the value what it sells for raw? 

 

[jaybuck43]

On 6/10/2020 at 10:57 PM, Silveradot said:

Hey all just got into collecting recently when a friend of mine was selling his collection,I asked him if he had any Wolverines and it went from there.Bought a pretty good stack of books,some seem good ASM 101-102-135 are just a few that I picked up.So my question is how do I determine declared value when submitting because these books seem to be all over the place price wise and I’m not even sure that I’m correct on the grades of them from what I have read on grading.If I put down $200 for ASM 101 and they think it’s more how does that work.Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

"Fair market value" is a flexible concept.  For the most part, CGC isn't going to worry too much about the value except for 2 reasons.  1) Insurance purposes on return shipment and 2) if you're trying to game the system.  If you have an ASM 101 and you think it's VF and that VF's are selling for around $200 there's no issue with putting that down.  Now if CGC looks and says "hey, wait a second, this is a 35 cent variant and it's NM+, and worth over $2,000 they will contact you and just bump it up in tier to the proper price and service.  Basically, don't worry too much.  Assign a fair grade to it and look for price comparisons on heritage, Ebay, guide etc.  Then match to corresponding tier.  They've basically streamlined the tiers at this point that all that matters is turn around times.  Unless you're trying to submit a $1,000 book in the $200 tier, you'll be fine.