How many cards is PSA getting at the $150 level?

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by glchen

I have a stack of low grade prewar cards for resale that I'm hoping to send to PSA some day. I could be dreaming, but I'm hoping for a standards price for cards with a declared value of less than $100 at $10/card, and a Collector Club or bulk special at $8/card. If the prices are higher than that, then it's really not worth sending in since these cards are probably only worth $20-$25 each at best.

The days of $8-10 subs are likely gone. Even before they shut down, the bulk price was $12, then $20 for a hot minute before they shut down.

[riggs336]

Originally Posted by Mike D.

The days of $8-10 subs are likely gone. Even before they shut down, the bulk price was $12, then $20 for a hot minute before they shut down.

I participated in a PSA survey some months ago. There were dozens of hypothetical prices and service levels and delivery times thrown out in all sorts of combinations.
I certainly don't remember all the possible permutations, but I remember clearly that the lowest price point being considered in any scenario was $30.

[55koufax]

$20 seems like the lowest possible number they'd go for some type of bulk submission with likely very long waits on return

I may have stated this on another thread a week or two ago....I have it in writing from somebody near the top of the food chain at PSA that my bulk waiver sub pricing would go to $20 per card when they "open" up bulk waiver subs again (and in early 2021 was told likely by this Fall - Ha!). They said the price could be as low as $18 per card as long as I did $100K in submissions annually.

Personally, I will never ever get near $100K in submissions as at $18 per card as that equates to 5,555.556 cards.

Have had discussions with Cosetta about how this kills most all of us Set Registry nerds, and back in May she was still distraught at how they had no resolution for us/her regarding this now difficult issue. I have not followed up with her on an update of late, but likely will soon.

[Mike D.]

Just to give an update on timing, I just got back my “value modern” sub that arrived at PSA on 11/18/20 the other day (10/22/21). It didn’t get accepted to PSA until early Feb.

[Republicaninmass]

My "varies by demand" cards that ARE ALREADY psa graded, but back for card grade, passed a year this week. Still a few months away

[BobbyStrawberry]

Express update for those interested - logged in on 10/11, received back today.

[Snowman]

I also have an Express service update.

2 cards submitted for Express which were received on 10/20 by PSA. Went into grading on 10/22 and was in QA2 on 10/26. Grades popped today 10/27 via the upgrade fee email because one of my cards got a 10 which increased the grading fee.

Funny thing about that card is that I bought in an SGC 10 slab. I looked at it closely with a loupe and knew it would cross to a PSA 10 as it was perfect in all aspects. Also, the slab was new and very clear and easy to see through, so I sent it in as a crossover to PSA in the SGC holder (which I usually don't do, but did so in this case because the slab was perfectly clear). PSA rejected it for 'Mingrade'. The grader was kind enough to put a little sticky note on the back that read "Corner -->" which pointed to the bottom right back corner. So I looked at that corner again under 30x magnification and it was as perfect as a corner gets. I looked at the other corners again just in case he accidentally pointed to the wrong corner and again, all 4 corners were perfectly razor-sharp even under 30x magnification. Pretty frustrating, but not surprising. So I just cracked it out and sent it in raw, and surprise surprise, it's coming back in a PSA 10 holder. Their crossover service is pretty frustrating to say the least.