I need your help…
I got an e-mail today from Beckett (I hear those snarls and grumbles) saying that my graded cards (I hear it again) have been shipped. The cards I sent were a 2001 Bowman Pujols RC, and a 2001 Topps Gallery Pujols RC. Now here is my dilemma. If I click on the order number to see where they are, it will tell me what they got graded… I want to be surprised when they get here and open the box, but at the same time I sent them off in January and I have been dying over here. Granted I chose the cheapest service because I wasn’t going to pay more to get them graded than I paid for the cards in the first place.
Do I look? Do I wait? I don’t even know how long the shipping will take.
In the words of the great Spongebob Squarepants, “Barnacles!!!”
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Have someone else look and tell you when it’ll arrive?
Online cyber instant gratification will let you down! Wait for full sensory reality. It won’t be much longer.
I say look.
There is joy in waiting. If you don’t like the grade you got, why ruin it with a few days.
If you don’t like the grade you got when they arrive, well, you’ll have your cards back.
Wait.
Flash has a good idea, as long as the person that looks has a good poker face.
How about wait and video the opening of the package??
I shall wait, I guess… Perhaps I will make Suzy look for me and tell me when they are coming. She saw the cards pre-slabs, and thought they would do about as well or better than I did. LOL, maybe we should both wait. By the time I decide, they will probably be here at this point.
You have waited so long so why not wait just a little longer. Besides, it will be just as exciting as reaping open a pack. Imagine if you KNEW what cards came in the packs, half the excitement would be gone.
I had the same dilemma this week as well. I really wanted to track the package so I ended up looking. Didn’t do bad, out of 20 cards I got seven 9.5’s, eleven 9’s and two 8.5’s.