After 30 year sabbitacal, help me w/ a grading strategy. List included 2 2

[SuperBird]

On 9/25/2021 at 9:37 PM, zzutak said:

In my opinion, you've gotten ahead of yourself.  Two suggestions:

1. How confident are you in your assessments of condition grade?  Before you go any further, how about sharing a dozen or so of your books in the Please Grade My (PGM) Forum?  Not all at once, naturally.  Be certain to include low-, mid, and high-grade examples.
2. Once you have confidence in your ability to estimate condition grades, complete your spreadsheet by adding two additional columns: Column 6 = Current Overstreet Price Guide Value; and Column 7 = Estimated Market Value (based on a review of actual sales).  This is something you can do without our help.

Once you've completed these tasks, you'll be in a much better position to decide how best to raise whatever funds you're looking to raise. 

This is about right. I'd go further and suggest that unless you have a collection of CGC-graded books to compare your raw grading ability to, you may be unhappily surprised at how accurate your assessments are. 

I went through the above process with my books, and ended up slabbing things one wouldn't normally expect to, based on realized prices. (and it paid off, but I was very patient)

[Prince Namor of Atlantis]

Slab them all and hang onto them for another 15-20 years. Grading will cost much more at that time so you're saving money already. Sell the books and build a community center or feed the world, your choice.

[Dr. Love]

Hold onto the books, and put the same time and effort into moving the needle on the WAF