About HGA
Rebuilt
the right way.
HGA had real problems in the past: turnaround times, housings, and more. We rebuilt HGA around what matters most, so that never happens again.
The mission
HGA exists to build grading you can trust: every grade explained, every card housed, and every improvement made in the open, with the hobby and for the hobby.
HGA is owned by uCollect and grades independently, according to our published standards. HGA does not buy, sell, or own cards. We grade them. All sports. All TCG.
The vision · ten years
Trust · Cases · Scale.
Trust
The strongest database in the hobby
Every grade explained. Every defect a grader identifies is documented, located and rated; every card is imaged. The database grows with every card we grade.
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Value beyond the label
Every card housed. HGA Poly for every size on the market; HGA Glass, our metal and glass housing, for premium cards.
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Built to keep promises
Every improvement made in the open. Facilities, machines, engineering and people invested ahead of demand, so growth never breaks a promise.
The path
Launch it. Prove it. Set the standard.
Launch and prove it
All sports and all TCG. Keep every promise we launched with. Listen, and improve in the open.
Publish and grow
The database opens to the hobby. Volume grows and turnaround holds. The housing lineup grows with the hobby.
Set the standard
The most trusted company in the hobby. The reference for any card, whoever graded it. The case a card should live in.
Never a superlative without the mechanism behind it. Never a number we would not publish. Never a promise before it is deliverable.
The rules that bind everything HGA says