How do I find a Pokémon card worth grading?
Open Top Picks, pick a card that looks good, and check its PSA 10 profit next to what you would net if it came back a PSA 9. If the numbers still work, add it to your Watchlist. From there GemEdge helps you plan the submission and tracks what comes back.
Chapters
0:00What GemEdge does0:17Find0:46Check1:49Save2:07Plan and send2:29Measure2:51Start with one cardSteps
- Open Top Picks to see the cards most worth grading right now, ranked by GemScore.
- Open a card and read Grading Analysis: PSA 10 profit, Gem Rate and what you are all in for.
- Check the PSA 9 line, what you would net if the card comes back a nine instead.
- Hit Add to Watchlist to save the cards that still make sense.
- Tick cards in the Optimizer to total a batch, then send them to your queue. PRO
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What GemEdge does
0:02GemEdge helps you find the cards that are actually worth grading, and then it tracks everything after, what you sent in, what came back, and how you're really doing. I'll walk you through it, it only takes a few minutes.
Find
0:17This is Top Picks. These are the cards most worth grading right now, ranked by GemScore, a score from zero to a hundred.
0:28Each card shows what it sells for raw, as a PSA 9 and as a PSA 10, and the green number is your profit if it comes back a ten, after the card itself, grading, shipping and selling fees. So that number's already net.
Check
0:46Click any card and you'll see prices for every grade we've got sales for, not just nines and tens, plus the other grading companies.
0:56Down in Grading Analysis there's the PSA 10 profit, the ROI, the Gem Rate, and what you're all in for. Gem Rate is just the share of graded copies that came back a ten, it tells you how tough the card is to gem, not what yours will get, your own eye still matters a lot.
1:17And this line right here is the one I'd never skip, what you net if it comes back a nine instead. Sometimes a nine's still fine, sometimes it's a loss, better to know that before you send it in. Those numbers use your own costs, and you can change them right here.
1:37Up top it starts on the cheapest PSA level that covers the card's ten value, bump it up and watch the fee and profit move, then drop it back.
Save
1:49If a card looks good, hit Add to Watchlist. Honestly that's the one thing I'd do today, find one card, check it, save it.
2:00Your Watchlist keeps everything in one spot, and a free account holds up to ten cards.
Plan and send
2:07Now say you're out at a show and you find clean copies of a few cards on your list. On Pro, tick those in the Optimizer and it adds them up, your best case if they all come back tens, your worst case if they're nines.
2:23Then send them to your queue and ship them to PSA when you're ready.
Measure
2:29And honestly, Analytics is the part I'd pay for on its own. Bring in your PSA history, and your own cost spreadsheet if you keep one, and it's all in one place, how many cards you've graded, what you've put in, what you've made back, and your own Gem Rate, how often your cards actually come back tens.
Start with one card
2:51So that's GemEdge, find it, check it, save it. Start with one card, and if you want to go deeper, every part of this has its own short video. See you in there!