Play Ball! *PSA Redefines Pre War

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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

So where are all these lost revenues you posit going to? The people I know who submit regularly to PSA -- not that it's a huge number -- are still doing so rather than giving their business to another TPG.

I would presume other TPG. I don't know many people at all who submit to PSA anymore -- you can't get your cards back for months. I was at one show recently and a very valuable football card in an SGC holder was sitting at an auction company's booth. Somehow we began talking about how he had gotten the card raw and needed to get it graded quickly for his auction. But because PSA can't return cards for weeks or months, he sent it into SGC instead. Whatever the numbers PSA is doing now they are doing significantly less than they could if they were competent.

I have entire sets of 50s near mint cards that I'd send in to PSA at some point to be graded but won't because it's not worth waiting six months for their return. I'm sure plenty of people feel the same.