Bulk card grading
Sitting on a box, a binder or a childhood collection? Bulk is our service for submissions of 100 cards or more: from $5 a card, a 90-day turnaround, and a price quoted around your submission instead of read off a list. Same expert grade, same premium slab, same public cert as every other card we do.
Bulk starts at $5 a card and is quoted per submission. We don't publish a fixed bulk rate card because the honest number depends on how many cards you're sending, what they are, and how they arrive — a sorted, sleeved 500-card submission is a genuinely different job from 120 loose cards in a shoebox, and pretending otherwise would mean pricing everyone for the worst case.
What we can tell you is where it sits against everything else:
| Submission | Service | Rate | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100+ cards | Bulk | from $5/card, quoted | 90 days |
| Any size | Premium | $7/card | 30 days |
| Any size | Express | $9/card | 10 days |
| Any size | Diamond | $15/card | 2 days |
No membership, no minimum order beyond the 100-card Bulk threshold, and no declared-value upcharges — a $4 card and a $4,000 card cost the same to grade here.
Most graders treat bulk as a membership perk. You buy a yearly plan, the cheap rate only applies to cards under a declared-value ceiling, and the moment a card is worth more than that ceiling it jumps to a much higher tier — often mid-submission, without you choosing it.
We don't price by declared value at all, which changes the maths on a big submission. If you're grading 200 mixed cards, you don't have to sort them by value first, guess which ones will breach a threshold, or pay a premium on the handful that turn out better than you thought. One rate, whatever's in the box.
Sometimes not, and it's worth saying so before you ship a box. Grading adds value most reliably on cards that are already desirable and already in strong condition. Running 300 commons through any grader will cost more than the slabs will ever be worth.
Where bulk does pay off:
If you're not sure which of your cards clear that bar, say so when you get in touch — we'd rather grade 80 cards that make sense than 300 that don't.
At MPE, Bulk is any submission of 100 cards or more sent in together. There's no upper limit and no membership to buy first. Submissions under 100 cards run on the published self-serve tiers instead: Premium $7 at 30 days, Express $9 at 10 days and Diamond $15 at 2 days.
Bulk card grading at MPE starts at $5 per card. Bulk is quoted per submission rather than sold at a fixed published rate, because the price depends on how many cards you're sending, what they are and how they arrive. Contact us with a rough card count and we'll put a number together for you.
Bulk submissions run on a 90-day turnaround, counted in calendar days from the day your cards are received. That longer window is what makes the lower per-card rate possible. If you need part of a submission back sooner, split it: send the time-sensitive cards on Premium, Express or Diamond and the rest as Bulk.
Contact us with a rough card count, what sort of cards they are, and when you'd like them back. We'll work with you to streamline the process and customize it around how you send. There's no obligation and no account needed to ask.
No. Bulk cards get exactly the same treatment as every other submission: a full expert grade across centering, corners, edges and surface, a permanent certification number, front and back images captured at grading, and the same premium tamper-evident slab. The only difference between Bulk and the faster tiers is how long you wait.
It depends on what the cards are worth. Grading adds value most reliably on cards that are already desirable and in strong condition, so a bulk submission works best when you've sorted out the genuinely gradeable cards first. Because MPE charges the same fee regardless of a card's declared value, bulk grading is far more viable on mid-value cards here than at graders who price by declared value.
Yes. Custom labels are available on Bulk submissions at the usual add-on rate, and colour matching can be applied across a whole submission. Mention it when you ask for your quote so it's included in the number.
