Posted By:
Steven FinleyI'm not entirely sure you have to pay a $99 dollar membership fee just to submit. If I'm correct, you can still submit to PSA at the normal going rate, you just won't have access to the pop report and set registries. Like I said I'm not entirely sure sure I'm accurate on that because since getting back into collecting in the past year I've only submitted to BVG and SCG. I do however own many PSA slabbed cards ranging from N28's to 2008's and readily have absolutely no need for the pop report. I have a feeling that is true for many collectors also. There aren't very many people who can afford the "Second highest graded" of a species like say American Caramel or very many auctioneers who frequently have said cards up for grabs, but to those people the pop report is a wonderful tool. For the average Joe like me though, the "set fillers" of other collections become my cornerstones. A big giant A makes me smile just as much as a 7 or 8. I'm sure PSA understands this and allows for individual submissions without the membership fee. It's just hard to imagine such a company would deny itself that much additional business.
I honestly doubt that PSA goes under either. Joe O is a smart man (i.e. Cobb/Edwards) and there are a lot of businesses struggling at the moment.
Also has anyone considered a PSA/SCG or PSA/BVG merger? It would be possible that such a move would both lower submission fees and increase tech/security fairly quickly.