THIS happened when I graded REPAIRED Pokemon cards!

Can you grade repaired Pokemon cards? That is the question we'll be addressing today. And the short answer is yes. 100% you can grade repaired cards. Are you allowed to? Well, according to PSA, no, you're not allowed to. But yes, you absolutely can grade repaired cards. What I have in this box is a few repaired cards that I sent in for grading. I'm going to open it up and show you guys what we got here. And we're going to talk about what I learned about grading repaired cards because it's a little bit different than just grading a regular card. And there are some caveats, if you will, which you'll find out here very shortly. Now, I already know what's in the box. It is not a surprise to me, but I think you guys will be entertained by the results that we get here. So, I sent in seven cards. And you will see this is not what a graded card pack should look like. There are no slabs here. And that's because these cards got labeled as altered. That's right. We sent in seven cards and we did get an altered grade on them, which answers a lot of questions that I got in my comments. People are always wondering if you're going to get an altered grade on these. And uh the answer is you can. Yes, you absolutely can. Doesn't necessarily mean you will. Now, I'm going to talk about the reasons why these got altered grades. And there are strategies to this where this won't happen in the future. So, let me say first off before I get into my mistakes, uh there is a 100% chance that all of these cards you see here will get graded eventually. Now, you might be seeing, and you might already tell mistake number one based on the cards you're looking at here. These seven cards, we've got Giovani's Persian first edition, uh, Neoenesis, Neoenesis, Lugia, Dark Blastoise Hollow, First Edition, Rockets Mewtwo, first edition holo, Dark Alazam first edition holo, and Blaine's Charizard first edition hollow. This is what I would consider to be a whale order. This is a whale submission. These seven cards that I'm holding right here, when they grade 10, which again they will, it's only a matter of time and it might take multiple submissions. But when these grade 10, what we're what I have in my hand is equivalent to about $40,000 of cards. These seven pieces of cardboard are worth $40,000. This Charizard alone uh sold up to $14,000. My first mistake was sending in all of these cards in one submission. $40,000 in one submission is going to raise a lot of eyebrows. was going to get the top graders involved in the grading process. And I also, mistake number two, paid for the quicker service. I paid for 20-day service, which ironically, uh, this ended up coming back within like 60 days. It was actually slower. 20-day service was slower than the GameStop standard $20 service. So, mistake number two was do not pay for the extended service. do not pay for the quicker service because the quicker service goes to a higher tier of a grader, a more experienced grader inherently based on everything I've seen. And again, I'm still learning this process. I'm this is the first time I've ever submitted graded cards. $69 service for $20 uh for 20-day service goes directly to the more experienced graders, which are more likely to catch uh alterations. So, just to be clear, the alterations that I made to these cards were only flattening and polishing. That's all I did. I did not make any additions. I did not cut these cards, I did not put any ink on these cards. I didn't uh do anything. I didn't add any content to these cards. All I did was clean and polish them to remove light scratches and then flatten them. So, that's mistake number two. Don't submit cards with the quicker the quicker service because they will get more scrutiny by default. And mistake number three is I have already sent these cards in. All of these cards are already on my account. What is the percent chance that somebody is going to get individual unique dark blastoise first edition dark Charizard Blaes Charizard Dark Gas? What? There's 0% probability that I just happened to have two of each of these cards and then I sent in one on the first batch and then after I got that batch back, I sent in the same exact seven cards. So that is mistake number three. Do not submit cards that you've already submitted for grading if they're high dollar cards like this because each of these is going to get, you know, much again much closer scrutiny than if you were just submitting uh $500 cards or something like that. That's mistake number three. And just to recap, mistake number one, this is a whale order. These cards are worth a ton of money. This is the equivalent of submitting like 10 Sunreons in one submission. That's going to get you a lot of scrutiny. Mistake number two, I've already sent these cards in before. So, they saw these on my account, which, you know, if it were me, I would obviously think, hey, that's kind of weird. These have already been sent in before. This is a lot of money in cards. Let's see if these were altered. And mistake number three, I paid for the expedited 20-day service, which automatically puts it to a higher tier grader. Let's talk about how to get these actually graded. Now, as I'm speaking, I already have a second submission in through GameStop for some of my other repaired cards, and I did not send in a whale order. I sent in a nice balanced order, which is not going to draw a lot of attention. That will uh yield hopefully some better results, and I'm definitely going to share those with you guys once I get those back. So, with each one of these, I will be submitting them probably individually through GameStop or uh through a different account. Obviously, I'm not going to be sending these in through any of my own accounts anymore because they will know that this is I mean, the number of Dark Giovani Persians that have been sold at a PSA 10 in the last year is very, very, very small. This is a very rare card. The moral of the story is repairing these cards does work. You can send them in to get graded again. Yes, it may take a few submissions. As we're seeing here, these got altered because I submitted them wrong. I'm going to have to resubmit these in a different way. They will 100% eventually get graded because, and this is the most important part of the whole video. This is what you guys need to understand here, is that grading with PSA is 100% random. If you ask me how I know, well, I'll show you a picture here of uh just a few of the cards that I've graded with PSA. I have graded hundreds of cards with PSA. This is my first foray into grading repaired cards. So, I understand the randomness, the chaos that is grading with PSA. There is really no rhyme or reason. You could send in one card three times. It'll get three different grades every time. I have seen cards that are not altered pack get an altered label. So even cards that are not altered at all will get labeled as altered. And that brings me to my trap card. So I did alter these cards and as I mentioned before, I was doing a little bit of a test. So this is u my first submission for graded cards for repaired cards. But I sent in a trap card, if you will, to help understand the process and kind of test whether PSA can detect altered or not, or if they're actually using other metrics, such as the fact that I have submitted these before. And actually, you could say that I have a couple trap cards. So, you guys know that I repaired this uh Lugia. I did that on the channel. Uh I did repair this Dark Alazam and this Mewtwo and this Persian. I polished this. However, these two cards right here were not altered at all. That's right. This Charizard was perfect. I got this at a PSA 8 and I was just resubmitting it to see if I could get a higher grade. And I submitted it with the rest of my whale order to see specifically if they would label it altered just because I am rescending it in again with other altered cards, which means they assumed that all the cards I sent in are altered based on the ones that I've sent in already. That they I mean they may have detected altered on these. Perfectly fair. I get it. But these ones were not altered. So, I know now and you know now with 100% certainty that uh it is a mistake to resubmit cards you've already submitted if they're high dollar like this in this manner. So, part of this process of me learning how to grade sub prepared cards is how to submit them. Now, I know that it actually doesn't matter if the cards are altered. If they're paired with other altered cards, they're going to get an altered label anyway. Good job, PSA on detecting the altered on these. But you fell for my trap cards. These are my trap cards. Now I know how to repair these cards and submit them so that they get graded appropriately. Do I feel bad about submitting graded cards? A lot of people in my comments are there saying, "Oh, this is a scam. This channel should be banned. You shouldn't be doing this, etc., etc. These cards are going to get scratched in 10 years." And to that I say, "Who's the victim here? If I repair this Lugia and it gets graded at a 10 and then I sell that to somebody who has a slabbed 10 Lugia, he can sell that 10 Lugia for 10 price for as long as it's in that slab. There are going to be no scratches that appear. That's not how this works. There scratches don't reappear on your car after you buff them out. There's no added ink. There's no added chemicals that's going to deteriorate the card. You have a Lugia 10 and it's going to be worth a Lugia 10 for as long as it's in that slab. PSA does not lose money. They do not get hurt by me submitting this. If anything, they're making more money off my multiple submissions. And they get more money from other people seeing that these cards sell for high dollar and then wanting to submit their own. It's a win-win scenario. They win, I win. The customer who buys this from me ultimately wins as well because they have the card that they want and there is no detectable human eye difference between this and a PSA 10, any other PSA 10 that's in a slab. Also point number two, there are PSA 10s in slabs that have visible deterioration, scratches, whitening, dents, whatever. Again, the PSA 10 label is completely random and subjective based on who grades the card. PSA grades tens of thousands of cards every day. This is not an objective process. This is a random process done by humans. This card may have very well gotten a higher grade on the original grade without any repairs at all because of its random nature of how it's graded. And you could submit this card 10 different times. It might get four different grades. So the point is you're not even really gaming the system at all. It's simply a longer term strategy. Yes, it might take three or four submissions to get these cards graded. But do I care about that? No. And that brings up my final point. These cards over the last year of 2025, these cards have all basically doubled in price. So, if I have to wait another year, which represents basically about four submission cycles because it'll take three months for each submission to go through. Four submissions at $20 each is $80 over the course of a year. And this Charizard right here was $4,000 at the beginning of 2025. At the end of 2025, it was selling for upwards of $13,000. So, do I care about $80 submitting this four times? Do I care about submitting it 10 times? I don't even care about submitting this 20 times because the amount of profit that I'm gonna make completely overshadows the submission cost. So tell me, out of 20 submissions of a random, completely subjective process where it's based on nothing but whatever the grader happens to feel at that moment, do you think this is going to get a 10 eventually? The answer is yes. 100% chance yes. It's just a matter of time. How patient am I? How long do I want to wait? I've had these cards for 26 years. Do you think I care about waiting another year for this to get graded? No, I absolutely do not. I did not pay any money for this card. This card was free. I pulled this card myself out of a pack 26 years ago. Same with all these cards here. Well, actually, I think the Lugia I traded for. But the point is, I'm not going out and spending $10,000 on cards and then fixing them to regrade them. Your situation might be different. Your calculus might be a little bit different if you're repairing cards that you're buying. If you're going to card shows looking for stuff to fix and then resubmit, obviously you have to take that into account in your calculations. But for me, I literally don't care. I'm going for zero or 10. That's how I'm I'm handling this process. This dark algazam is maybe worth 300 bucks at the original grade that it was at PSA 8 or 9. Uh at a PSA 10, maybe it's worth like 3,000. The difference there is worth it to me. I don't care about $300. I do care about 3,000. So, if it takes me a little bit of a work and a few submissions to get this to 3,000, I'm going to do it. I get a ton of requests for people asking me if I can repair their cards. And I was waiting until I got these back specifically so that I could tell you what the risks are associated with this. I am not telling you that this is a risk-free process. There is risk involved here, but it's actually pretty low risk as long as your time frame is long. If you can do multiple submissions, you don't care about 80 bucks to submit the card four times because the difference again between a PSA 8 and a PSA 10 might be $10,000. You don't care about that and you you don't mind waiting, then okay, your risk profile fits the grading uh polished and repaired cards profile. Actually, also my disclaimer to anyone who's asking me to repair their cards. I have not repaired any customer cards yet. This was just a hobby I'm doing for fun, but it's morphing into this thing where people are asking me to repair their cards and I am considering it, but it's going to be expensive because this is not my job and I don't have that time. But you guys see the results that I get. Now you know what the submission process is like. I'm 100% transparent. I will share the results of my second submission with you as soon as I get them. If you have any questions, drop them in the comments. I will answer as many as I can. You can find me on Instagram. Links are in the description below. If you want to know how I repair these, I do have membersonly videos where I narrate the how-to and instructional when I go through and fix these. That's all. Appreciate you guys. I hope you appreciate the transparency. These will all get graded. Don't worry about it. I'll see you in the next video. Peace.

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