Does PSA have a card registry now?

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Posted By: Plastic Dog 

In the previous line someone mentioned that PSA had a registry for cards. Is that true? I know that both PSA and SGC have equivalent coin grading services which both started coin registries over the last few years. I'm not a coin collector, but from what I've read these registries have totally skewed the entire coin market towards high-end graded examples that could then be "registered." Talk about fricking conflict of interest. Anyway, I seriously hope that this hobby doesn't go down the "registry" path

(i.e. "My set is better than your set." "No it's not, because my 7 is actually nicer than your 8OC." "Oh yeah?" "Ya." "Is not, because PSA registered my set and not yours.")

Is that where we're heading?

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Posted By: vorthian

<< Is that true? >>

Yes. Check the PSA website for more information including a forum dedicated solely for "set registry" concerns.

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Posted By: Marc S.

There are about 500 complete or partial sets currently listed in PSA's set registry, including Sir Vorthian with his Fro-Joys.

From an amusing/where the industry is headed standpoint, there is a collector out there who owns a completely graded 1974 Topps baseball set.

Over $5,000 in grading fees for a set that can be had for $500....not to mention premiums paid for high-grade examples. With the large number of 1970s graded set collectors on the registry, I have a pretty good idea that this is the way thing may go (at least in modern card circles)

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Posted By: leon

could there be such thing as a "complete" type set? Then I could crack my great looking SGC cases, send them to the snotty nosed kids at PSA (sorry Halley), and get them registered.... Now that would be a friggin feat....regards

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Posted By: Marc

I think it was our own HalleyGator who has gotten (or is very close to getting) PSA to add a "Hall of Fame" collection as something to collect...so I'm expecting to see all of his cards listed as soon as PSA puts that up.

The only problem I could see with PSA adding some type of "Type Set" to their registry is the simple fact that it seems quite difficult sometimes for PSA to get the labelling right on any obscure vintage issue!

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Posted By: leon

I would help them but everyone knows I get confused too.....all of those early year partying days that wasted my baseball brain cells......regards (watch out Chicago !)

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Posted By: vorthian

<< Over $5,000 in grading fees for a set that can be had for $500....not to mention premiums paid for high-grade examples. >>

Recall Superior's auction on 10/11/01, named "Kings of the Diamond"? Lot 966 (241 1976 Topps in PSA 8) sold for $835 w/ juice. Less than $4 per PSA 8, I think some people will be in for a rude awakening when they try to sell off their late-70's PSA graded sets that are stocked with 8's or lower. 9's and 10's I see more potential, but to each their own.

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Posted By: runscott

I took some of my nicest early '70s HOF'ers in to have my dealer send them to PSA - he told me not to bother. I didn't have anything spectacular, but this still surprised me.

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Posted By: vorthian

<< I took some of my nicest early '70s HOF'ers in to have my dealer send them to PSA - he told me not to bother. I didn't have anything spectacular, but this still surprised me. >>

Now if you have spectacular condition, you can expect prices like this...

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1059190141

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

an '80 Brett for $700.:(

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Posted By: Plastic Dog

How can you put a price on childhood heros? Seven hundred doesn't seem excessive. At least not for the 10 1980 Bretts that I have which are centered better than that particular card.