With so many Sports Memorobilia items for sale on eBay, our goal is to differentiate the collectibles we offer from the competitions by providing the most detailed information regarding the precise grading condition of your potential purchase ...

Our Company Statement:
RetroGrade TradingCards will provide collectors with the finest, most thorough, consistent and accurate opinions with the intention of grading available on eBay. We make every effort to ensure our shipping/handling time. Shipping and Handling Time, this is the time in which the cards are in the our possession (time in transit, weekends and holidays are excluded) and are shipped the day after your order is received ... we will take every necesary step to ensure that your item reaches you promptly and secured in the condition you were promised. Whether you are buying an item for a gift or for your personal collection, we will do our best to offer you the variety and quality you demand and have it shipped to you promptly.

Condition Opinion and Shipping Details:
We live in the Grading Era and thus we look at every detail of every card in order to provide you with the most information we can with the intention that the item will one day be sent for Professional Grading. We are by no means experts in the final determination of condition, a job reserved for third-party grading companies, but what we can do is use simple techniques to provide enough information to get you the card in the described condition you intended to purchase. Evaluating cards for grading can be very tricky, and a lot of money often rides on determining the right grade. What if you find out your "Mint" Albert Pujols rookie is only "Near Mint" when you go to sell it? Or, that the "Mint" Hank Aaron you’re thinking about buying has actually been trimmed? You want to be able to buy cards with the confidence that they are accurately described -- and that’s where we come in and desire for your trust in our judgement based on the feedback we recieve and hopefully previous transactions we have completed in the past.

While it's true that a large part of grading is objective (locating print defects, staining, surface wrinkles, measuring centering, etc.), the other component of grading is somewhat subjective. The best way to define the subjective element is to do so by posing a question: What will the grading service accept for this particular issue? The vast majority of grading is applied with a basic, objective standard but no one can ignore the small (yet sometimes significant) subjective element. This issue will usually arise when centering and/or eye-appeal are in question. These details are completely in the hands of the experts. What we can provide, although, is a simple guideline to the condition using:

1. Centering (Front and Back)
2. Corner Condition
3. Edge Condition
4. Surface Condition

In addition to honest condition opinions, we also take pride in packaging the items you purchase in a way that guarantees us and yourself that the collectibles will reach you without any damage to the invaluable condition.  To do this we use the following techniques: