Collectors (PSA) Acquired SGC

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Originally Posted by The Detroit Collector

Crazy news. Never would have expected this.

I can't believe there will be two separate slabs continuing long term. Eventually SGC slabs will become PSA. A crossover charge will be added.

I dont see how SGC slabs will be included in the registry. The regisity will show both PSA and SGC separately? I don't think that will work. It's probably going to be same business as usual, if you want to go into the PSA registry, you will need to crossover.

In the end this gives PSA a huge amount of influence in the hobby. Pricing, grading times.

SGC will grade some cards that PSA wont. Makes me question how that will work moving forward.

Collectors Universe could do a big marketing push that involves a special rate for SGC-to-PSA crossovers, with the idea that PSA will house the industry's only registry and cater to "true hobbyists" like the YouTube bros who track cards with stock tickers. They could spin off SGC into a BCCG-like club, where dinosaurs like me pay $99.95 a year for the privilege of continuing to use SGC.