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Originally Posted by Sterling Sports Auctions
There is nothing cheap about PSA. If you want inexpensive subs you have to have a minimum 20 cards under a certain dollar amount and within a certain year range. Even as an auction house I struggle to get cards to fall under there critieria to get the cheaper rates.
By the way their lowest regular price is $50.
Grading is no longer an inexpensive venture and I do not see it changing in the future.
Lee
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This post doesn't fit the narrative on here that SGC is greedy, and why don't things cost what they used to. It's almost a waste as it's way more fun to complain and thus same posters will make the same lament in a new thread within a few weeks.
Of course, no one at the same time wants to acknowledge the argument that these cards now bring 10 x as much when sold and thus as an integral part of that economy TPG's should also have their work valued similarly, they just want their cheap labor grading.
Oh, and anyone thinking CGC will provide a cheaper service - go look at their charging scale.
The hobby is growing exponentially, especially with modern now considered a serious investment, and the backbone of that growth is the relative stability that the third party grader provides to establish the transfer of material.
People on here should be celebrating the obvious re-energizing of the hobby as new collectors will fuel passion and interest going forward, not the wizened hobby specialists on here.
This place, this site, the collectors on here, hold a very important role in maintaining a bank of historical knowledge that ALL collector cards will be living off forever, but it's no more important than what is of interest to the modern collector and how they choose to collect.
The old man / get off my lawn reactionary response to the grading industry is ridiculous.