Crazy PSA Holder?!
 

So, I had a nice day at the mailbox today with a few recent buys coming in (shown in pic for relative size).

BUT, what's the deal with that Chris Sale card?! The holder it's in is twice the size of a standard holder, and more than twice as thick...but it's a standard sized card.

Maybe the card is thicker than normal...but still. Very odd holder choice. Is this something PSA would re-holder into something smaller?

https://baseball-trivia-game.com/images/psa_sale_1.jpg

https://baseball-trivia-game.com/images/psa_sale_2.jpg

That’s a pack holder. PSA now has a thicker, but normal sized, holder for thick cards. That way it can stack with your other PSA-graded cards.

Pack holder makes sense, looking at it. Putting a card in it sure feels hacky!

Think PSA would re-holder into a more reasonable case? If so, may do that with my next psa sub as this is gonna be a pain to store as-is.

Depends how thick the card is, but probably. You'd have to pay the reholder fee, since it's just cosmetic. Yeah, there are some times they have run out of thick card holders and had to substitute these instead just to get the orders out the door.

Yeah, I figured it’d require the reholder fee. Probably worth it for ease of storage and I’d have to imagine cards in wonky cases take a resale hit.

Pretty lame that they do this kind of thing.

PSA holder
 

Hey, at least you have a holder. Have an order in assembly for over 4 weeks. They may be out of holders. Probably out in the bay in a cargo container from China.

I have no idea when that Sale was graded, but considering it doesn't have the PSA hologram, I imagine it's on the older side.

But things do seem to have slowed down at PSA of late. My order that got checked in Feb 4th (shipped in Nov) got graded, assembled, QA'ed and delivered...so I had high hopes that my order that got checked in Feb 16th (mailed in Dec) wouldn't be far behind...but no movement from grading.

PSA Submissions
 

Yep some strange things at PSA to be sure - but I have a little hope knowing you got your submission back that was checked in Feb 4th. One of mine got checked in on the 13th so hopefully before Christmas! When did your Feb 4th submission arrive back to you?

My order that checked in Feb 4th arrived here on Oct 21st or 22nd.

My order that checked in Feb 16th JUST went into Assembly TODAY!

Psa
 

That is nuts!!

Don't get me started. I have orders that have been in Research and ID for 11 months.

The order that went into Assembly is now is QA1!

Thats great news - I have my order that was checked in on 13 Feb 2020 that is still in assembly. It is a large order though (119). Good to see you finally got some movement! Hopefully mine isnt far behind

Mike - I am curious, what service level and how many cards are in this order?

Value-Modern ($12 per card at time of submission) and the order is 20 cards.

More updates:

My PSA submission that arrived at PSA on 12/9/2020 and got checked in on Feb 16th just had grades pop. I'm very happy with the results.

My PSA submission that arrived at PSA on Jan 8, 2021 and got checked in on Feb 23 just moved from "grading" into "assembly" today.

The first sub above arrived today from PSA! About 5 days short of a year from when I shipped it!

The 2nd sub above has moved from Assembly to QA1.

Maybe the order should have stayed in QA a while longer, so someone could, I don't know...QA it.

https://baseball-trivia-game.com/images/wagner.jpg

Rare 1/1 "Rocards" variation. :p

That second sub mentioned above had grades pop today. Had arrived at PSA Jan 8th, 2021 and was checked in on Feb 23, 2021.