To Grade Pokemon Cards or not to Grade Pokemon Cards ?

There is an interesting argument about grading or not grading cards. I personally do not grade cards because of the business I run here in Springfield is mostly vending machines. So I don't grade the cards that are in the vending machines and the retail locations I have I don't grade those either but recently I've had a few people that have been pushing me towards getting graded cards.

Here's my argument towards why I don't really like to grade cards even though you can probably make more money off graded cards it's not really a properly you can but you invest a lot of money up front to grade cards it cost a lot of money to send the cards in you have to wait for the time to have the cards come back then after they graded you have to be able to sell those cards so you might be spending a lot of money to grade the cards and get nothing in return if you're going to sell them. I guess if you are hanging on to credit cards as an investment or as a personal collector it would be worth grading a few cards if they were worth the money to grade or if you thought the investment would grow over time.

However the way I look at it is sales on the spot if I don't make sales then I cannot order more merchandise or spend money to get more stuff to sell to people this includes having new merchandise cards and everything else that goes along with my business.

However with not grading the cards you lose some things too as I've stated credit cards are definitely more valuable. However you could grade the card and it could come out with a bad grade and not be worth the value you thought it was. Also I return to my previous fact that if you're selling these cards what if no one buys them. Then you have invested all this money in time into a graded card and you are not selling it and it just sits there.

I am just curious if there's any Pokemon collectors buyers sellers I have an opinion on this I'm going to leave a poll at the end.

Yes you should

No you should not

Not sure

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