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Originally Posted by raulus
Not to be a serious hater, but how many of those items graded in September 2022 by PSA were submitted before they shut it down during the pandemic? Some portion of this could just be getting through the backlog…
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You're not being a hater, that is exactly what I was saying and asked about back in post #6.
They still do a ton more business than all the other TPGs put together it seems, primarily because as has already been stated in various posts, everything else being equal, PSA graded cards will typically sell for more money than similar cards graded by any of the other TPGs. And since the hobby is turning more and more into a true investment/business vehicle every day that passes by, that additional profit margin/potential is impossible to ignore for a major portion of the hobby community. Our overall views and opinions as primarily big-time pre-war (and vintage) collectors here on Net54 are most certainly not representative of the majority of the people now involved in the hobby. Today you don't have kids collecting pop bottles anymore to take and turn in at the local corner store for the deposit money, and then use that money to buy a pack of baseball cards and stick of gum. We're definitely not in Kansas anymore. LOL