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Originally Posted by Snowman

Collectors is still investing money into the SGC brand. They are making improvements on the backend database and hiring more graders while the vacuous halfwits on YouTube and Blowhard sound their false alarms.

Collectors will continue to keep SGC around as long as the hobby continues to demand their services. Why? Because they'd be stupid not to. They know that a significant percentage of loyal SGC customers would take their business to CGC, BVG, or MBA instead, and that could open the door for someone like Fanatics to scoop them up and start chipping away at the PSA market share. A lot of these customers grade with SGC because they don't like PSA, and them shutting down SGC isn't going to change that. Keeping SGC in play gives PSA a moat. And they can't just steal all their graders without creating a new PSA location in Florida because most of those guys aren't going to move across the country so they can grade cards in LA or New Jersey.

As long as SGC continues to thrive (and they very much are - they even had to increase their turnaround times recently because they're swamped), Collectors will keep keep them open because their added value as an alternative grading option far exceeds the value that they would get from stealing their graders and offering crossover specials.

Agreed 110%