PSA complete through dates stalled

[Fuddjcal]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

Grades popped on this sub today. Arrived at PSA 3/11/21, checked in 4/22/21. Assembly on 7/11/22 and now grades on 8/8/22.

So, not fast.

The good news is that the grades are actually better than I'd expected, so there's something.

GREAT NEWS!!!! POP POP POP!!!!! I love it when they POP. Makes my day.
Have a great week everyone, we got cards that POPPED!!!Now it's off to San Carlos for a SUB and a POP

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Fuddjcal

GREAT NEWS!!!! POP POP POP!!!!! I love it when they POP. Makes my day.
Have a great week everyone, we got cards that POPPED!!!Now it's off to San Carlos for a SUB and a POP

Pop one open for me! I'm going to go against the norm and say that I'm actually happy with my grades, and a few are higher than I expected.

I'll share pics and stories on the appropriate monthly pickup thread when they arrive.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

Pop one open for me! I'm going to go against the norm and say that I'm actually happy with my grades, and a few are higher than I expected.

Good for you! That seems to be an increasingly rare experience these days, at least with PSA and SGC...

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Good for you! That seems to be an increasingly rare experience these days, at least with PSA and SGC...

Yes!!! If ya ask either of the grading companies they will tell you nothing has changed and they are grading the same for years and that it is all due to the submitters' expectations.

[Frank A]

Well, with all the 2022 cards for sale on ebay, somebody is getting cards graded fast as you wait 15 months for your return. How can that be?

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by Frank A

Well, with all the 2022 cards for sale on ebay, somebody is getting cards graded fast as you wait 15 months for your return. How can that be?

That's easy...they're paying a lot more for the privilege than I am.

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by Frank A

Well, with all the 2022 cards for sale on ebay, somebody is getting cards graded fast as you wait 15 months for your return. How can that be?

There is a thread on Blowout detailing members getting back their $18 July 2022 special submissions now. One month turnaround. Somehow they are cutting the line on the backlog. Lots of unhappy customers over that news, and rightly so.

[Lobo Aullando]

Yeah.

Subjectively expecting something merely approaching objective consistency.

Originally Posted by Lorewalker

Yes!!! If ya ask either of the grading companies they will tell you nothing has changed and they are grading the same for years and that it is all due to the submitters' expectations.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Just got back an "Ultra Modern" from Spring 2021 for a consignor. Seven 10's, three 9's and an 8.

[NATCARD]

Just wanted to give another ridiculous PSA update. There value vintage level seems to have been on April 4, 2021 as a complete through date for weeks. I have an order that has been there since March 16, 2021 with an enetered date of April 29, 2021 that has now been in grading for 8 weeks! WOW! I can not wait to get these cards back this year?

[BobbyStrawberry]

I'm amazed how they continue to say "F U" to their customers.

[55koufax]

Yesterday I went to PSA and my REP told me they are just about caught up with the early 2021 BULK SUBS.....that said, they still have 225 of mine that were dropped off MAR, 2021. They are almost done, and I p/u'd about 500 others from MAR, 2021 that were recently completed.

He told me PSA made ZERO profit and just breaks even from my MAR 2021 subs and the same type of profit holds true for everyone's last BULK SUBS that got in under $10 per. in early 2021...

Those days are long gone...

[chadeast]

Originally Posted by 55koufax

Yesterday I went to PSA and my REP told me they are just about caught up with the early 2021 BULK SUBS.....that said, they still have 225 of mine that were dropped off MAR, 2021. They are almost done, and I p/u'd about 500 others from MAR, 2021 that were recently completed.

He told me PSA made ZERO profit and just breaks even from my MAR 2021 subs and the same type of profit holds true for everyone's last BULK SUBS that got in under $10 per. in early 2021...

Those days are long gone...

I don't know how that could be true unless their economics have significantly changed in two years. They were happy grading hundreds of thousands of cards bulk at < $10 for many years, and the registry exists because of it. If those days are long gone then the registry's days as the supposed driver of PSA's dominance in the market are going to come to an end as well. And perhaps they realize that and have decided that they are OK with it.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by 55koufax

He told me PSA made ZERO profit and just breaks even from my MAR 2021 subs and the same type of profit holds true for everyone's last BULK SUBS that got in under $10 per. in early 2021...

Those days are long gone...

I agree that those days are long gone, but I call bullshit on them claiming they can't profit at $10 per card. Graders look at them for less than 1 minutes each, and the aggregate time spend per card for receiving, research, QA, and shipping has to be less than 5 minutes in total for bulk subs, and most likely less than 2 or 3 minutes per card average. There's no scenario whatsoever that this doesn't cover their costs.

[NATCARD]

(3) PSA orders all shipped in the same package
All arrived on August 22nd
3 cards at Economy level entered on the 30th in grading
2 cards at the express level entered on the 29th in research
1 card at regular service entered on the 29th in grading
A guess paying more for higher $$ cards and quicker speed is irrelevant!
Jeff Weisenberg

[Lorewalker]

There is a PSA Order Tracker thread on blowout that I follow. Presently there has to be ZERO internal controls on the order processing. My guess is that graders are just walking into the areas where orders are stored and just randomly grab orders to process.

Not a huge fan of SGC's at this time, but for whatever the reason, there are no delays there and they process submissions in the order they receive them.

Clearly PSA's pissing off and frustrating submitters has not hurt their business in the least and may very well be contributing to their success. Stockholm syndrome for the PSA faithful. Honestly it is a horribly run company and the present management has no better handle on it than the previous.

[NATCARD]

Wow, pretty much all I can say. 62 cards at the express level of $150 per card and they are finally graded and on their way back. Oh, by the way (6 upcharges) toalling $1500 more on the orginal bill! I will post the Carolina Brights grades on the other thread. thanks, Jeff W

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by NATCARD

Wow, pretty much all I can say. 62 cards at the express level of $150 per card and they are finally graded and on their way back. Oh, by the way (6 upcharges) toalling $1500 more on the orginal bill! I will post the Carolina Brights grades on the other thread. thanks, Jeff W

So, almost $11k to grade 62 cards?

[MikeGarcia]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

Pop one open for me! I'm going to go against the norm and say that I'm actually happy with my grades, and a few are higher than I expected.

I'll share pics and stories on the appropriate monthly pickup thread when they arrive.

.." higher than I expected ".....?? ---: no one on here has used those words for a PSA grading in more than five years . ; please don't wait until September 1st to share the return of these miracles . Thanks from all of us.

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[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by MikeGarcia

.." higher than I expected ".....?? ---: no one on here has used those words for a PSA grading in more than five years . ; please don't wait until September 1st to share the return of these miracles . Thanks from all of us.

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I won't wait for September. The cards should ship tomorrow, so after a quick 3,000 trip they should be here. I'll take some photos and share in the post-war pickup thread.

Sneak peak...one of the cards, I traded for when I was about 14 (I'm 46 now) from a local dealer who took a big pile of "modern" (at the time) stuff back. In retrospect, I think he was so happy to see a kid really wanting a vintage card that he cut me some slack. And now that card is in a PSA 3 holder, preserved so I can tell that story for a couple decades.

A couple others were OC and I was going to grade with qualifiers hoping for a 6(OC) or 7(OC). In the time since I subbed, PSA stopped doing qualifiers...but the cards all graded straight 6's.

[Mike D.]

As promised, scans and few thoughts...

https://www.net54baseball.com/showpo...4&postcount=19