Posted By:
Mark HoltI am one of the Registry particpants often ripped on this board. I have to say this pisses me off in a big way. It clearly is caused by:
1. CU's horrible financial results last quarter.
2. Their raw card submissions must be in a significant decline.
3. They decided idiots like me who have been their best customers (Registry participants) will offset the decline in raw submissions by sending in a good portion of the millions of slabs already graded hoping they will get a 'bump.'
If ever there was a time for SGC to upgrade the way their Registry works this would be it. If they made the 'look and feel' of their Registry match PSA's (links to pop reports, ease of viewing scans, HOF sets in all sports etc) and did a crossover special I'm guessing they would have a couple record months.
The next step you'll see from PSA is black slab inserts, probably early next year once they've got enough suckers to pay for half grade bumps. Three or four grading fees per card, yeah that's the ticket.
I won't start another PSA registry set and will have to think about ever doing business with them even on my existing uncompleted sets. What a *(&T^*(^%^.