PSA has stopped accepting submissions

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Fuddjcal

somebody offered me 100, then 125 and finally 150K the other day on a drive around the block in the Resto Mod. It was tough not to say "Here's the Keys fatso". He said it would cost him 200 to build it today if he could find someone to do it. There is a year wait at most good builders. VROOOOMMMMMM

Nice ride Chuck. My uncle had a white/blue 74 with the HO 455. My cousin and I used to beat the hell out of it back in the day.

[Fred]

I'm not a PSA fan but I don't think this is going to change anything as far as collectors opinions are concerned. PSA will be the desired slab for most people that like TPG flips.

[hockeyhockey]

i'm still not caught up on the registry thing - what's the point of it? is it just people registering their collection online?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by hockeyhockey

i'm still not caught up on the registry thing - what's the point of it? is it just people registering their collection online?

It's never too late to get into it.

It is basically a dick measuring contest for most. Others it is a nice way to keep track of your collection.

[mark evans]

Originally Posted by bnorth

It's never too late to get into it.

It is basically a dick measuring contest for most. Others it is a nice way to keep track of your collection.

Pretty funny. I can think of several less costly, and more accurate, measuring methods.

[hockeyhockey]

Originally Posted by bnorth

It is basically a dick measuring contest for most. Others it is a nice way to keep track of your collection.

i was gonna say that, but you went and said it for me

[Rhotchkiss]

Originally Posted by bnorth

It's never too late to get into it.

It is basically a dick measuring contest for most. Others it is a nice way to keep track of your collection.

I have one set registered with PSA - my t206 set. Why? 100% a dick flaunt. I admit it, guilty. And god damn is it addictive. PSA’s registry is absolutely brilliant.

I add, I am not really a set guy. I only own two other complete sets - E104–II pirates (mix of SGC and PSA) and 1906 Lincoln Publishing (all SGC, but I bought it this way). I am far along on a D304 set (mix of SGC and PSA). No thought of/care for the PSA registry for these. I collect cards in both slabs. All things equal, I prefer my rare stuff in SGC slabs (bc SGC is much more knowledgeable/better) and more “commodity” cards in PSA (bc of value). But generally speaking, I will buy a card in either flip if I like the card. I will not buy 1950 or older cards in any other flip.

[Johnny630]

https://gosgc.com/update-20210401?fb...Xe6-kH_7V9UFlI

I called it above

[Dardevl]

Does anyone know if tickets and/or autographs are included?

Vintage cars and baseball cards. Oh yeah. Two of mine.

[Tyruscobb]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

https://gosgc.com/update-20210401?fb...Xe6-kH_7V9UFlI

I called it above

Surely, this is an April Fools' joke. $75.00 a card?

Edit: No, it is now legitimately $75.00 a card.

Wow - just a 400% increase from the $15.00 a card just a month ago. I'm in the wrong business!

[36GoudeyMan]

We know that PSA cannot reliably detect trimming. The stories here and elsewhere demonstrate that beyond any real argument. Yet there is such a demand for PSA grading, despite its demonstrated unreliability, that they have to close their doors to new business.

SGC rolls out its "new" website, kills its Registry (such as it was, at least you could somewhat track your own inventory), and, after ceremoniously announcing it was largely caught up with demand, jacks its prices up 200% immediately after PSA announces its temporary shuttered doors.

Beckett seems to have no traction in the graded pre-war card market (not sure, I don't follow BVG or Beckett on eBay).

CSG is a new kid on the block with some pedigree, but seems not to be able yet to grade anything after 1980 all that well. Yet. Its prices fetched seem to reflect the market not the quality of their work, but we'll see.

Submitting anything but reliably high-value cards is now out of reach. People like me, who don't rip open boxes of shiny new basketball cards from boxes snuck out the back of WalMart are left pretty much with nowhere to turn.

COVID or none, the card collecting marketplace has now, I think, been irretrievably changed, and not for the better. On top of all the other losses and disappointments of the last year, the adverse changes to the hobby I've loved for over 50 years is truly disheartening.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Tyruscobb

Surely, this is an April Fools' joke. $75.00 a card?

Edit: No, it is now legitimately $75.00 a card.

Wow - just a 400% increase from the $15.00 a card just a month ago. I'm in the wrong business!

So has anyone actually started a submission today to see if it is a company trying to be funny with a April fools joke?

If not good for them if they can get a minimum of $75 a card. Raising the prices makes way more sense that hiring/training a bunch of people they will just have to lay off once all the new investors/collectors drop the hobby like a hot rock when they return to normal activities.