I've always wondered how 1,000 different graders (with 1,000 different sets of eyes) can have any real type of consistency. Add on to that they may be overworked, negative personal bias against certain players, having a bad day etc. I think computer based grading is the wave of the future. Very excited about what TAG GRADING is bringing to the table. They also have the best looking slabs in the game - by far.

TAG is going to be an industry leader in time!!!! I’d love that Grant Dawson @JoesCardStache

Thanks for sharing Joe. I like the POP report and the submission kit ideas. These grading companies have a Heathy Profit Margin that they can use to implement some of these ideas but I feel that they won’t. They are stuck in their ways like Blockbuster when Netflix put them out of business. Let’s see if TAG is the Netflix of the grading world.

Tag on the come up Forsure

To me this is the future of grading and the only company I am using right now!!!

TAG will be a force to reckoned with! I have previously inquired with TAG for grading thicker cards - they are not currently set up to do so, but it sounds like it will be done in the future - FYI. I would love the Grant Dawson! Great content as usual!

Joe, a sincere thank you so much for the absolutely stellar video review! We are so glad that you see and appreciate all of the effort, thought, and care we have put into making a bona fide, automated grading system that values transparency and giving each collector all of the info they deserve. It has been a long road, over 10 years of developing the technology, 4 awarded patents, and we are just getting started! In regards to your resale comments, we are actively monitoring and recording our secondary market sales and the comps-- it has been extremely exciting for us to watch them climb. As of last week, across all sports, our Buy It Now sales are actually (on average) going toe to toe with PSA. Fanatics has also started selling TAG slabs on their platform with very promising sales. Where we need most secondary market improvement (which we feel confident will come in time), is in the Auction space; SEO is critical to getting auction listings seen and bid on. The TAG name still needs to grow in order for the SEO to improve and get the actual auction listings seen. We are encouraging people who are selling TAG slabs to list using Buy it Now due to the nature of search engine optimization; at the end of the day, at auction, if something doesn't get seen it is much more likely to sell for a steeply discounted price. TAG is growing quickly, each Grading Drop we do increases in capacity and continues to sell out within 20 or so minutes. We love the "TAG You're It" challenge-- you and LilB have inspired us to start a channel in the TAG Community Discord so that others may do the same. We have many exciting updates coming soon in regards to the Leaderboards that will make these challenges even more exciting. Ultimately, one of the aims of TAG is to decentralized grading-- we want collectors to support local card shops and take their cards there to have them slabbed in person using the TAG technology. Sub kits and mail in service will still be available, but it is our aim to do right by collectors and make grading accessible, timely, accurate, and affordable to all. We began building this company over 10 years ago because we are collectors ourselves and we want to build the transparent grading service that we ourselves would want to use. Thank you again, we hope you continue to support TAG as we will Joe's Card Stache!

Definitely will use TAG for the personal stache! Loving the older cards like that Rashad

These look so good once you take em outta the sleeve. I love it.

Great video and shoutout bro. I think tag looks really nice bud. Seems like its been along time. Glad to see you back. 👍

Hey Hey Joe! Great video!!! Love the casing on the slabs! Thanks for sharing the love of the hobby! I may consider TAG in the future! Happy collecting all! Love the Dawson RR!

Even though we are the RAW card family (everything is a '10' in our case 😂)... great informative video! 👏 as always 💥

That Aljo and Grant Dawson laser are sick! This company really does seem to be the future of grading, they’ve solved so many of the issues. The 1-1000 grading, very open with telling you the imperfections, visually a beaut, sending you the box before shipping, putting them in packs has to make it so much more fun. The question is will the masses buy these close to PSA range? Resale premium and more lax grading seems to be the only reason people keep subbing to PSA. What time table do you think they need to get the notoriety for the masses to respect them? Thanks for making this video I’ve been wondering about the ins and outs.

Love the in depth review. I can definitely see myself using TAG in their next drop, especially for my PC cards. Being able to see that much detail of your own card and the reason for the grades is so dope. I’d love that Grant Dawson if I get chosen! (Both are beautiful cards) Thanks for the UFC content, keep it coming!

Ohhhhhh TAG looks sick! I actually opened my account with them while watching your video! I’m definitely going to use them for my PC! The slabs look slick, the grading scale looks pretty damn good, and the major thing I like is that grading report! I’d definitely like that topps rashad evans card!

The illusive Joe has returned. This may have taken me a few sessions to get through. But I made it to the end. 👊🙏

Sending off my first 20 cards to TAG today. Everything looks amazing.

This is worth every penny of the grading price.

I've been super curious about TAG and was about to order a kit from their drop a few days ago but held off because I wanted to see this video first! I think I'll get a submission kit next time they drop because it looks like a really great service honestly. I'd love to snag that Rashad!

New sub. You're video was great. For now I will use PSA for investment cards. I will use tag for all of my PC though for sure. Thanks for the video.

Grant dawson is sick! Always love me some lasers! If i get a chance i will definitely try to grade some of my pc cards with Tag. I like how the slabs look clean and focuses more on displaying and protecting the cards. Hope they become one of the top companies in the future.

Great informative video Stache 👍🏻

The thing here is, there are & have been countless "new grading companies who are taking on PSA, Beckett, etc." yet literally none of them have managed to gain any serious traction throughout every/any subset of the hobby. Grant Dawson btw

Thanks for this review. Very helpful information.

I would love the grant dawson 1/25. Im about a year in to collecting and your videos have helped me out immensely.

i LoVe Tag Already ! the future of Cards

Really like the way the slabs blend in. I like that it's about displaying the card not the grade. I'm going to have to send some Pokemon cards in to see how the grading process goes. The card I'm interested in is the Rashad Evans if I win going to give it to my brother. He is a huge Rashad Evans fan.

PSA charges you later on in case they have to upcharge you for anything. You know what's crazy? A Green /5 Gilbert Burns RC sold for $35 after he lost graded a PSA 10. Doubt the sale was completed though lol.

I think that with time TAG will start to be recognized as a reputable company, as long as they keep doing good work of course. The population reports and defect charts are things that will be key to their success i believe, personally i hate not being able to see what is wrong with non gem cards. The Grant Dawson Teal is absolutely fire! Thanks for the awesome video joe!!

I will be sending cards to TAG I just sent my first ever order to PSA and nervous about the horror stories of a grade depending on graders feeling that day. I can learn so much from TAG grading system for future submittals.

TAG WILL BE KING 👑

Definitely would use Tag if I ever wanted to grade a card, I don’t really resell so it would just be for my PC and their slabs/the online system are super cool. Would love to win the Rashad Evans as well!

I dont own a single slab until now. I pulled a great khabib auto card and was about to send it to psa but then i thought that spending 99 $ for the auto+card grade is a bit much. I would rather just get it into a nice slab to showcase.

Submission kits are free over orders $100 or more. Otherwise be prepared to to pay $19.99 for the kit. Also shipping is $20 👎🏼. Drops are 2x a month for $14.99 a card but be prepared to be disappointed because 90% of people can’t get in on the drop at release. However they now have an open submission option that cost $25 per card. Fairly pricey with a 20 day stated turn around

That’s actually hella cool

tag is cool I like the slabs I would like that rashad it would be dope to have that and it would be my first graded card 👌

I love new companies I hate investors stuck in there 🦕 ways if we stick to PSA nothing is going to change or evolve to new heights and I would Love the rashad cards in my pc

Think I would consider using TAG , nice video … appreciate the giveaway ! Dawson for me pls thanks !

Hey brotha ! Does TAG charge you up front when submitting the online order or do they charge once the cards are slabbed you and sent back like PSA ?

IMO, ARS (Japanese grading company) >TAG >BGS in terms of labels. I will still send a card to PSA tho.

thanks for the vid, i hit a 1/1 sean brady in a break recently and some other big anderson silva cards so i have been seriously thinking about getting them graded when they finally arrive. i have never submitted anything for grading so i need to do me some research. there is a company here in Australia called TCG grading. i know its not a popular grading company but they have black labels in the slab that would look sick with the black 1/1. would be keen to win the grant dawson but appreciate postage to Australia might exclude me from the giveaway.. GO JUNE UFC CARD GIVEAWAY MONTH !!!!

the struggle to show off the label says it all. Is what it is.

Serious question... did TAG pay you, give you a free grading submission, or both? Lol just playin the slabs do look nice & I wish at least 1 more company could actually take a substantial market share so we have more competition in the grading industry, I just feel like people are so stuck in their ways that countless collectors will never even consider anything besides PSA when buying graded singles or submitting their own cards or grading which makes legit market competition for grading real tough to bring to fruition

Ditch the packaging, presentation, lower the grading price to $8-10 dollars a card. They need to get thousands of these slabs in circulation every week.

PSA 8 to a TAG 8.5. Lost half its value😢

Aside from the reputation aspect, the service TAG provides far exceeds PSA. It destroys PSA in terms of quality. PSA is overall garbage.

Most grading services are better than PSA. PSA is widely used because of their simple grading scale, 60/40 centering on a 10 and for a decade handing out gems like candy. Because of this investors and collectors accumulated a large collection of PSA garbage and will defend that garbage to protect that garbage. Now PSA is bipolar and seem to grade by throwing darts at a board. Think that’s a 10, well it’s a 4 Please Submit Again. Oh it was a 9 this time? Weird.

Great video dude. But just want to say, it's not just the ink printing issue, you could easily get a 9 with that. It's the fact that there multiple scratches on the card that clearly both PSA and TAG have seen. Just look at your card from different angles directly under a light and you will see it.

here is the problem with TAG, it seems like it costs them a lot of money to grade and attract customers......the level of detail for each individual card from your own shipping kit, to online image detail, to individually wrapped cards upon return cannot possibly be efficient for their bottom line and this will result in the company not being able to produce in scale. Another thing is, yes, the technology is great and digital grading is certainly the future, but once the bigger companies adapt to it this company is going to get lost in the market shuffle........great looking slabs, cool video breakdown but i just dont see them as a mainstay in the hobby that already has 3 big companies that the market has highly adopted, and that really goes for any of the non big 3 grading companies.

Wow this was really insightful. Shame TAG lacks the notoriety they need right now. That grant Dawson is dope though!