PSA Complete-Through Tracking

[Shoeless Moe]

Sorry for cutting the line.

I paid $50 each for 4 Tickets to be slabbed and I'm at 9 days since they received and seems to be moving right along....

[Johnny630]

Has there been any update on lower service levels opening up soon ? Maybe $100 a card ? I think we are moving in the right direction :-)

[jh691626]

Yeah, for whatever it's worth, I submitted something in their $150 level (yikes), and it got to them 10/4, was entered into their system 10/4, was graded and assembled by 10/7, and I got it back on 10/12. So it seems like they are moving pretty darn fast, at least on the highest levels, and this seems faster than the turnaround time postings had indicated. So maybe they are catching up...

[Lobo Aullando]

[Lobo Aullando]

Through December 2.



I finally got back a shipment of cards I'd mailed in late September of last year, that's 13+ months. (It spent two months in QA1 and suspiciously had a factory stamped card come back with an MK qualifier.) If that's typical, I'm guessing my late December order will be at least March 2022, which is 14+ months.

If they keep at the apparent rate, it wouldn't surprise me if they were on pace to clear out the backlog by next August-ish. I really hope I'm way overshooting the mark on that.

[hockeyhockey]

Originally Posted by Lobo Aullando

Through December 2.



I finally got back a shipment of cards I'd mailed in late September of last year, that's 13+ months. (It spent two months in QA1 and suspiciously had a factory stamped card come back with an MK qualifier.) If that's typical, I'm guessing my late December order will be at least March 2022, which is 14+ months.

If they keep at the apparent rate, it wouldn't surprise me if they were on pace to clear out the backlog by next August-ish. I really hope I'm way overshooting the mark on that.

i got a shipment back a month ago - that one was sent in december/logged in february. have another one that was sent in february/logged in april currently in grading phase. sometimes i wonder if there's any rhyme or reason to how it all works.

[Snowman]

Can you weight each of the categories' wait times by their monthly volume and divide them all by the total sum to get a weighted-average turn-around time index? I'd be interested to see how that plot looks from here on out since the volume they received in the later months was supposedly exponentially greater than it was in the earlier months of the backlog.

[Lobo Aullando]

Yes, but do you have that data?

I'm not sure it adds much value, though. Crazy illustration— If the share of incoming two years ago was 90% vintage, and then total volume went up 10x and Chinpokomon cards were suddenly 90% of everything, all are effectively on the same priority level anyway, so differences between categories don't matter a whole lot. More succinctly, the explosion in submissions of new stuff slows the pace of completion down for every category on that priority level. (And the lines are nearly unified at this point, which would be expected.)

FI-FO. They're just going to keep crunching through everything at ~20k per day.

Originally Posted by Snowman

Can you weight each of the categories' wait times by their monthly volume and divide them all by the total sum to get a weighted-average turn-around time index? I'd be interested to see how that plot looks from here on out since the volume they received in the later months was supposedly exponentially greater than it was in the earlier months of the backlog.

[Harford20]

Here is my recent data. It seems that the “First In – First Out” seems to fit here. I thought that certain cards might be done “faster” depending on year or card type, but doesn't seem to be the case. I have cards all the way from T205/206 to 2020 Topps and every type (different sports, TCG, Pokemon) in between.

1. Value Modern (1972-2016)
Arrived 9/29/2020 Entered 1/11/2021 Grading 7/28/2021 Assembly 11/18/2021 QA1 11/23/2021 Shipping 11/30/2021
2. Value Ultra-modern (2017 and newer)
Arrived 9/29/2020 Entered 1/11/2021 Grading 7/26/2021 Assembly 11/16/2021 QA1 11/22/2021 Shipping 11/29/2021
3. Value TCG
Arrived 9/29/2020 Entered 1/11/2021 Grading 7/28/2021 Assembly 11/18/2021 QA1 11/24/2021 Shipping 12/1/2021
4. Quarterly Grading special 100 years of baseball (1870-1970)
Arrived 9/29/2020 Entered 1/11/2021 Grading 7/28/2021 Assembly 11/22/2021 QA1 11/29/2021 Shipping no date

So I haven’t seen the cards in 14 months….but I get presents!!!
Dave

[Lobo Aullando]

Through January 4, due to those lovely snowstorms.

[Dead-Ball-Hitter]

This is fascinating, thanks for sharing the info.

[toledo_mudhen]

Just stumbled on to this - Kinda Interesting

https://www.gemrate.com/

[riggs336]

Fourteen months (door to door) seems to be the time frame for quarterly specials mailed in Q1 2021. I made two submissions in January 2021, one early month and one mid month. I received the first yesterday and the second was shipped today.

[yanks87]

Originally Posted by Lobo Aullando

Through December 2.



I finally got back a shipment of cards I'd mailed in late September of last year, that's 13+ months. (It spent two months in QA1 and suspiciously had a factory stamped card come back with an MK qualifier.) If that's typical, I'm guessing my late December order will be at least March 2022, which is 14+ months.

If they keep at the apparent rate, it wouldn't surprise me if they were on pace to clear out the backlog by next August-ish. I really hope I'm way overshooting the mark on that.

I have a slew of orders that I put in with other people, all of mine are vintage. Of the 4 that went in last January, only the vintage order is in Assembly, but has been there for a month. In a curious turn, a 172 bulk quarterly special that I put in last march is in Grading ahead of several orders that went in before it. I am hoping to see the cards in '22, but have resigned to the fact that it may be '23!