About GradingPrep

GradingPrep didn't start as a business. It started as me pre-screening submissions for my own Whatnot show as @puffnuggets. I didn't want to send subs to PSA, BGS, or SGC that would come back with avoidable surface dings or creases I'd missed under bad lighting. So I built myself a process: magnification, controlled lighting, methodical surface work, archival sleeving, and honest grade predictions before anything hit a grader's queue. Friends started asking if I could prep their cards too. Then viewers of the show. Then strangers. Thousands of cards later, it's a real business with real infrastructure: a live customer dashboard, a submission pipeline that covers PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC, and the same obsessive eye on every order, whether it's one card or two hundred.

The thing I care about most is trust.

When you mail cards to a stranger, you want to know the person on the other end is going to handle them the way you would. The promise here is simple: honest evaluations (even when the verdict is "this isn't worth grading"), professional prep work, transparent pricing, and full visibility into where your cards are at every step. That's the service I wish had existed when I first started submitting, and that's what GradingPrep is built to be.