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Originally Posted by tjisonline

This is definitely the YouTube topic of the week.

I think it’s pretty obvious regarding the future of SGC and it prob doesn’t require a 5 minute video let alone anything longer. The days of SGC’s day to day operations as we (the customers) know it is about to change. The writing has been on the wall since Day 1 of the acquisition.

- SGC hasn’t done anything with their website & app since the collectors acquisition announcement.
- They did not grade on site at the national last year.
- SGC’s grading has become somewhat inconsistent to mirror PSA. min size not met anyone?
- The face of SGC (Peter) has been awfully quiet since the announcement outside of a few videos (increase turnaround times and the gem mint 1961 Wilt Chamberlain)
- For those of us who have been through acquisitions, usually takes between 18 and 24 months to see noticeable changes. Headcount reductions, elimination of duplicate processes, location closures, decisions, whether to eliminate / merge branding, integration of HR systems, etc..

In a perfect world which this isn’t, current Collectors & PSA leadership should allow SGC to do all vintage grading and holder everything in the PSA slab (NJ & Cali locations). I don’t think this will happen because the current leadership at PSA clearly DO NOT VALUE vintage submissions. Why? The majority of their revenue (via Gemrate data) clearly comes from modern submission (& it's not even close). In fact, I’ll take it a step further to say vintage probably causes them a lot of headaches (so many old PSA slabs contain trimmed & overgraded cards that prob causes ample card guarantee payouts)

regardless if SGC is still around or not in the future, not sure it matters. this isn't the SGC we grown to love. Some other folks would prob prefer it to cease instead of turning into another Beckett

I was in the same camp right after the news broke. But with it is now being over a year, I think they do keep both brands.