Your Regrading/Crossover Playbook Is Here + Hobby Notes & Black Friday Offer

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🔥 New Guide: How to Find Cards Worth Regrading or Crossing

The full playbook is finally live.
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This one took a while — but it’s worth your time.

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For the 1987–1999 era, we are strictly seeking High-Grade PSA Rookies or Sealed Cases with a minimum value of $1,000. We do not acquire raw singles, sets or commons from this period.

Acquisition Criteria

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If you’ve ever wondered how to:

• spot a card that’s genuinely undergraded
• decide when to crack vs. crossover
• avoid the most common grading traps
• safely use minimum grades
• understand what “true eye appeal” really looks like

…it’s all here.

👉 Read the full guide for free:​
​https://allvintagecards.com/find-cards-regrading-crossing/​

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📌 Quick Notes From Around the Hobby

A few interesting things I’ve noticed in the last couple of weeks…

1️⃣ eBay quietly rolled out a Price Guide For Sports Cards (and it’s not terrible)

eBay launched a built-in price guide for card collectors — only on the mobile app for now, but worth exploring:

Sports Collectors Daily summary:
​https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/ebay-launches-new-sports-card-price-guide-feature-for-app-users/​

My early take:
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It’s clean, it’s fast, and for once eBay is trying to give collectors real tools instead of clutter.
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Not a replacement for Card Ladder or Vintage Card Prices, but a nice free resource.
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2️⃣ A scary-good counterfeit American Caramel Tris Speaker is floating around

This caught my eye on Net54 — https://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=366626​

​Here’s the actual eBay listing it references:​
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If you’re new to pre-war cards, this is a reminder:
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counterfeits aren’t always the obvious ones.​
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Some of these fakes are getting good enough that even seasoned collectors need a double-take.
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3️⃣ An absolutely gorgeous signed Babe Ruth Goudey card up for auction

This isn’t the cleanest Babe signature I’ve seen, but this recently popped up at REA and just wow…what’s the guess to the final bid?
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​https://bid.collectrea.com/lots/162136​
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Prices on Ruth autos have climbed, but pieces like this don’t come around often.

📉 A Few Undervalued Cards on My Radar (T206 Edition)

From my site T206BaseballCards.com, here are a few cards that popped up as undervalued relative to historical pricing:

1. ​T206 Red Portrait Ty Cobb SGG 4, $7000, potentially undervalued by 30%. Average PSA 4 Red Portrait Cobbs sell for $10,000. This one does have a stain on the back, so some might argue this was over-graded by SGC, but if you can whittle down the price even further it could be a nice score.

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2. T206 Addie Joss Pitching Old Mill BVG 4, $800, potentially undervalued by 32%. This is a nice clean copy with a rarer, Old Mill back. Multipliers on Old Mill cards average 1.3x more common backs. We see this Joss’s true value at closer to $1150.
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3. T206 Cy Young Bare Hands El Principe De Gales PSA 4, $8000, potentially undervalued by 24%. A beauty of a card, clean, crisp colors, great registration and a rare back that gets an average multiplier of 2.5x versus more common T206 backs.

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If you want to browse the full T206 breakdowns:
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👉 https://t206baseballcards.com​

📍 CardShopsNearMe.com Is Growing Fast — Add Your Local Shop

Traffic exploded this fall, and I’ve received a bunch of emails from collectors using it to find nearby stores.

If you haven’t checked it out:
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👉 https://cardshopsnearme.com​

You can:

• search by city or ZIP
• browse shops by specialty
• leave a review for shops you’ve visited
• help other collectors avoid bad experiences

If you know a great (or not-so-great) shop in your area, feel free to leave a review — it genuinely helps the community.

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Thanks for reading — and enjoy the holiday weekend

Have a question about the hobby or any comments or suggestions? Feel free to send any responses here, I read every one! Also, would love to have a reader mailbag newsletter article, so the more the merrier.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Chris At All Vintage Cards