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- Black Label
- A Beckett (BGS) 10 with perfect 10 subgrades on centering, corners, edges and surface.
- Break-even price
- The sale price at which a graded card exactly covers card cost, grading, shipping and selling fees. Formula.
- Centering
- How evenly the image sits within the borders, given as a ratio such as 55/45.
- Comps
- Recent sold prices for the same card and grade, used to estimate value.
- Crossover
- Sending a slabbed card to another company to be regraded in its holder.
- Declared value
- The value you state for a card on a grading submission; it decides the tier and insurance.
- Expected profit
- Profit at each grade weighted by the odds of that grade.
- Final value fee
- eBay’s percentage fee on the total sale amount. 2026 rates.
- Gem Mint
- The top regular grade (10) at most graders.
- Gem rate
- Share of submitted copies of a card that earn a 10.
- Parallel
- A variant of a base card with different color or finish, often serial-numbered.
- Pop report
- A grader’s count of how many copies of a card got each grade.
- Raw
- An ungraded card.
- Slab
- The sealed plastic holder a graded card comes back in; also a graded card itself.
- Subgrades
- Separate scores for centering, corners, edges and surface (Beckett, optional at others).
- Turnaround
- Business days from when the grader receives a card to when it ships back.
- Upcharge
- An extra fee when a card’s value exceeds its tier cap. How to avoid it.