>>56974957Grading is like $25 when sent away with other cards too. Hard to say how much cost the grading is adding to a card but its probably not actually that much for anything below PSA8. See pic related which is worth dogshit at PSA10 because its Ryme. Modern is just highly manipulated by scalpers in general but the same logic applies if you were to actually buy a Moonbreon right now.
Like any other product, if you shop around you can find things at a few dollars less, here and there. But if you find 40% discounted chocolates in some shifty chinese shop, fuck off from there. My boomer dad buys crap cars for a "deal" and cheap houses. His car broke down like 3 times and he lives next to a literal gangster. Jesus christ nobody ever cucked themselves by paying a bit higher for the better looking auction that had a guarantee. Yes I'm mad because I sent my Dad $2500 today for his shit broken car again. He even has a second car that isn't roadworthy and he uses it in backroads where the police won't go so he doesn't wear out his first constantly broken car as much. And to him this is a win because he still paid less than full price with all the repairs, technically I guess.
WTF is wrong with idiots just buy a decent fucking product from a reputable place. Sure, you can get $10 below MSRP when some scalper is trying to offload hundreds at a loss. It happens. But good luck finding random dirt cheap cards just sitting around ungraded and getting hold of them while simultaneously dodging every shit rip off auction.