[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by BobC

Any idea what the 23K and 67K figures represent for CSG? I'm assuming it is some breakdown between different kinds/types of items they grade that then makes up their total for the month?

Also remember those figures may not be telling the complete story. The figures say they are for cards "graded" in September 2022, not necessarily cards "submitted" that month. Remember, PSA had been sitting on a huge backlog of cards to grade for quite some time now, which is not really the case anymore with the other TPGs from what I've been hearing about turnaround times. A significant portion of that number of items they had graded in September may actually be for things they had been sitting on for months, or even over a year. If so, it is possible that PSA could have actually suffered a significant drop that month in the number of items being submitted to them, just like what appears to have happened to SGC and CSG. (No idea how to explain or read into the positive Beckett bump though.)

Also, could some of those drops possibly be at least partially explained by the timing of the National, and/or the further downturns in the market and inflation hitting the economy?

What would also possibly be helpful to know is a breakdown of those numbers between sports and non-sports/gaming cards, and then a further breakdown of the sports cards by sport (baseball, basketball, football, etc.). And then to take it one step even further, breakdown those sports cards by sport between vintage and modern. If you could get that kind of real, honest info from ALL these major TPGs every month, it would sure make determining and predicting trends and what truly may be going on a lot easier.

Also, it may help to better explain something that doesn't entirely add up otherwise. If PSA is truly kicking the butts of all the other TPGs seemingly this badly, why would they find it necessary to keep lowering their submission price? One obvious potential reason could be it is in direct response to the lowering of rates by other TPGs, and PSA is reacting to their price reductions to at a minimum, maintain their market share and continue what appears to be their dominance over all the other TPGs combined. Those numbers as they stand don't really give enough detail and info to possibly tell us the whole story though.

No idea ?