Wow psa blowing away competitors

[Rad_Hazard]

I'm not surprised that PSA outsells SGC, but SGC is just leagues better than PSA in my opinion. Lightning fast turnaround and the cases are much more aesthetic.

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard

and the cases are much more aesthetic.

The black insert was a good idea, and the contrast makes many cards pop. I will admit I’m not a huge fan of the corner cutouts and “framing mat” concept of securing the cards; they’ve had noted issues with this in the past - both with cards that aren’t held in place tightly enough, and jagged corner cutouts with the potential to damage card edges. For the latter before they fixed the issue, I popped more than a few SGC slabs, cursing under my breath the whole time.

PSA’s enclosure and rail system isn’t perfect, but it’s been less problematic overall than SGC’s gasket insert. All bets are off however, when PSA (frequently recently…) just says screw it, and uses the wrong sized slab alltogether, oftentimes leaving a valuable card floating between rails that are not sized for it.

I think if SGC could find a way to ditch the gasket for rails and still keep the black background contrast, that might be something worth looking into. I will say that even if the gasket is imperfect, SGC’s cards seem to move a lot less naturally in the enclosed space anyway for whatever reason — thus rendering the gasket as less of an issue. At the end of the day it is just a different approach, I suppose. And really just comes down to personal preference.


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[ClementeFanOh]

PSA can have the quantity, I'll take quality every day- that's SGC. PSA needs
to be "too big to fail" in the eyes of many investors. Trent King