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Cruel Carson #5b 2016 Garbage Pail Kids Presidential Candidates-New Hampshire Primary · PSA 8
ScarcityOnly 698 made · Topps.com online exclusive, 2016
Sold only on Topps.com, printed to order: Topps sold 698 copies of this card. Count as Topps announced it after the sale, reported by geepeekay.com.
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CRUEL CARSON ACTIVEno PSA 8 listed on eBay right now
RAW (UNGRADED) — NOT A GRADED VALUE
$12
2 raw sales used for this value
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Price history · PSA 8
On-the-record sales go back as far as PSA reports them — late 2017 for GPK — plus eBay-tracked and raw sales as they land.
🗑️ The Garbologist says…
Too Thin To Call
Straight from the Garbologist's clipboard:
- Nobody's actually sold this exact card and grade on record, so there's no live market to read — the price you see is a modeled estimate, not a realized sale.
- With this little to go on, the honest answer is we can't call a direction — one auction would swing the whole read.
Automated analysis generated from this card’s real recorded sales and PSA population data — no opinions, no predictions guaranteed. Entertainment and research only, not financial advice.
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🧬 Should I slab it?
Only if you're confident it's a 10About 5 in 10 copies of 2016 GPK cards get a 10, and a 9 is worth $66 — less than the $92 it costs to grade.
Expected value if graded$5 (after $92 all-in cost)
Raw value today$12 (from 2 raw sales)
VerdictOnly if you're confident it's a 10
Break-even: you need about a 62% chance of a PSA 10 (all 2016 GPK cards: 53%).
Chance of a PSA 10
53%
all 2016 GPK cards · 6,595 graded
PSA 10 value
$130
today · ~$130 by Feb 13, 2027
PSA 9 value
$66
today · ~$66 by Feb 13, 2027
All-in cost
$92
PSA fee $60 + shipping both ways $32
How these numbers work
All-in cost $92: PSA Standard tier fee $60 per card, insured shipping to PSA ~$12, PSA insured return shipping ~$20. Sending it to your PSA Vault instead skips return shipping (vault intake and storage are free): ~$72 all-in, so a graded copy would net ~$25.
Grade odds (all 2016 GPK cards, 6,595 PSA-graded): 10 · 53%, 9 · 35%, 8 · 7%, 7 or lower · 5%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 13, 2027): today's values (the set has no clear 3-month trend).
Expected value if graded = each grade's chance × its value, minus the all-in cost. A guide, not a guarantee — centering and corners on your copy decide the grade.
Grade odds (all 2016 GPK cards, 6,595 PSA-graded): 10 · 53%, 9 · 35%, 8 · 7%, 7 or lower · 5%. People send their best copies, so a random raw copy usually grades a bit lower.
Values when it comes back (~95 days, about Feb 13, 2027): today's values (the set has no clear 3-month trend).
Expected value if graded = each grade's chance × its value, minus the all-in cost. A guide, not a guarantee — centering and corners on your copy decide the grade.
