Pre sale · Nov 1, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
On November 1, prepay our fastest turnaround at the price of our slowest tier. 15 business days from delivery to reveal, guaranteed. No upcharge for card value under $10,000. The price ends January 31 and does not come back.
Graded blind to a published standard. Every grade explained. Every card housed.
HGA Glass · every card, every size · this is what a 10 looks like in our housing
Why HGA
Not the same slab at a different speed. We re-engineered the case, the report, the label and the process, so what you pay for is in your hands, not just on a label. Six things, with every pass. No other grader gives you all six.
The first metal and glass housing in the hobby. A display piece, not a plastic slab.
HGA Poly is tooled to every size on the market, vintage to booklets. If yours doesn’t exist, we make it.
The Grade Report: each defect a grader found, where it is, how severe, with the images. Public on the cert.
An NFT chip in every label ties the slab to its permanent record. Tap it, open the record.
Live status from delivery to the Reveal. A photo of your box, your unboxing on video, high-resolution images of each card on arrival and of the finished slab.
The grader never knows whose card it is. The standard is public, in full, on the Standards tab.
No grader guarantees a turnaround. Every posted time is an estimate. Ours is a date. And if we lose or damage a card in our care, we replace it or pay it out. Every time.
The pre sale
The offer
One pass grades one card at our fastest turnaround, in the housing you choose. Any sport, any TCG, any size. Up to 100 per housing per order; order as often as you like.
Image comingPoly · 15 business days
A case for every card size on the market. If yours doesn’t exist, we make it.
AT OPEN: $200 A CARD
On sale November 1
Glass · 15 business days
Metal and glass, for premium cards. A display piece, not a plastic slab.
AT OPEN: $600 A CARD
On sale November 1
How it works
A pass isn't a place in line. It's a reservation you make when you're ready: any open day up to a year out. Time it to a product release, a playoff run, a show weekend, or hold it. Your cards, your calendar.
Pick Poly or Glass and how many cards. Sign in or create an account at checkout; your cart stays with you.
One pass per card, in My Passes and in your confirmation email. They never expire.
When you’re ready. Any open day up to a year out, one pass per card. Full days gray out.
The 15-business-day clock starts when the carrier delivers.
Turn each slab over live in your portal: grade, subgrades, Grade Report. Within 15 business days, or your account is credited.
Each day has a capacity set by HGA. Reserve any open day up to a year ahead; when a day fills, it closes. Your pass waits until you use it.
Questions
A pass: prepaid grading for one card at the 15-business-day tier, in the housing you chose. Your passes live on your account.
From February 1 the grading calendar opens. Reserve an open day up to a year ahead, assign one pass per card, and ship your cards to arrive that day. Each day has a capacity; a full day grays out.
No, and no. A pass holds its value until you use it, and you choose the day: before a product release, after a big game, ahead of a show, whenever suits you.
Yes. From My Passes, send an unused pass to anyone by email; they accept, and it’s theirs. The pre sale runs through the holidays, and a pass never expires.
All sales are final. If you change your mind, transfer the pass to another account from My Passes.
An HGA grader, blind: the grader never knows whose card it is. Every card is graded to HGA’s published standard and released by a senior grader. The standard is on the Standards tab, in full.
Any sports card or TCG card, any size. HGA Poly has a case for every size on the market, vintage to booklets, and if yours doesn’t exist yet, we make it. HGA Glass is offered for every size too.
Yes. Your portal tracks every step live, from delivery to the Reveal. You get a photo of your package when it arrives, a video of us opening it and removing your cards, high-resolution images of each card on arrival, and final images of each graded card in its housing. Grading itself is tracked as status. Then the Reveal: you turn each slab over live and see the grade, the subgrades and the Grade Report.
If a card is lost or damaged while in our care, we replace it or pay it out. Every time. Every step is documented in your portal, from the photo of your box on arrival to the final images of the slab.
You choose the shipping, both directions, and pay for it at checkout when you reserve your grading day. The pass covers the grading, the report and the case.
The 15-business-day clock starts the day the carrier delivers your cards to HGA and ends when your grade is revealed in your portal. If we miss it, the full pre-sale price is credited automatically.
Yes, free, on every autographed card. An autograph 10 goes on the label. Anything less stays in your Grade Report and off the label, so the autograph grade can only add to your card, never take away from it.
A perfect 10 on every subgrade is HGA Flawless. In Poly, it moves to HGA Glass at no charge, with the Flawless label and the Flawless Reveal. In Glass, it gets the label and the Reveal.
An NFT chip that ties the slab to its permanent record. Tap the label with your phone and the record opens: grade, subgrades, images and the Grade Report. A swapped label or case won’t match its record.
There is no upcharge up to $10,000 in card value. Above that, insurance handling is $200 per $10,000, paid when you reserve. The pass still covers the grade.
HGA is a uCollect company, based in Chandler, Arizona. uCollect owns HGA; HGA grades independently, to its published standard, and does not buy, sell or own cards.
February 1 is our full launch. Standard turnaround tiers and their prices publish before then. The pre sale sells one thing: the 15-business-day tier, at a price that does not come back.
By purchasing you agree to the HGA pre-sale terms. All sales final. Prices, dates and limits are as published on this page at the time of purchase.
Stay close
One email when the pre sale opens, one before it closes, and one the day HGA opens. Nothing else.
