Best Place for Modern PSA 10s?

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Originally Posted by todeen

That's heavy risk submitting cards with $0.25 and having to pay $15 (SGC) or $25 (PSA). No wonder they never show up on ebay.

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Originally Posted by swarmee

Yes, if you want them, you'll likely have to submit them yourself. We're no longer in the $6 grading specials for commons like 5 years ago. And we're miles away from the bulk grading that 4SC used to get where they could send a monster box of cards to PSA and get charged $2 to evaluate each card and only have to pay $5 or so for the ones that were determined to be PSA 10s for slabbing.
Now you have to look for suckers or cards graded decades ago. COMC is still your best bet for those things, because 10,000 individual sellers use COMC as a consignment service.

This 70% or more of what I submit, sports and nonsports.

The thing that nobody is mentioning is that cards from the 80s and 90s are being graded with extreme prejudice at PSA. They hired a ton of new graders after the covid boom and they seem to all have been trained on chrome/prizm/ultra modern standards. It is a situation thats been discussed frequently on blowout and other forums.

Aside from the high costs, as already mentioned, it just isn't worth submitting a common card that would've been a 10 in 2019 or earlier and getting a 7 or 8. If the standards had remained reliable, the cost would be an acceptable issue for me.