SGC Big News of 2023 - Pokemon?

[Rich Klein]

With all due respect AND as someone who works in the sports card market, any smart company is always going to look for ways to expand their business.

If SCG ups their Pokemon market by 10 percent, I'd wager they make quite a good deal more $$ which allows them to do more things in their bread and butter field.

As for your other point, I can understand the 2021 hesitance in live grading at the NSCC but by 2023 it's probably a corporate mistake not to do in-person grading in Chicago.

Rich

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

With all due respect AND as someone who works in the sports card market, any smart company is always going to look for ways to expand their business.

If SCG ups their Pokemon market by 10 percent, I'd wager they make quite a good deal more $$ which allows them to do more things in their bread and butter field.

As for your other point, I can understand the 2021 hesitance in live grading at the NSCC but by 2023 it's probably a corporate mistake not to do in-person grading in Chicago.

Rich

SGC also missed 2022 on-site slabbing grading at the National. I appreciate and respect your comments above however to me SGC's bread and butter is their respected, trusted, and widely utilized by the Collector and Investor Vintage Sports Card Grading. Hopefully they remain focused to their core business.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

SGC also missed 2022 on-site slabbing grading at the National. I appreciate and respect your comments above however to me SGC's bread and butter is their respected, trusted, and widely utilized by the Collector and Investor Vintage Sports Card Grading. Hopefully they remain focused to their core business.

+1 agree but cannot blame them for wanting to follow the money. Since that is their business and they are not a charity

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

+1 agree but cannot blame them for wanting to follow the money. Since that is their business and they are not a charity

I agree, but it makes you wonder with the business decisions they have made (or not made) over the last 5 years.

I like SGC, but I think they are content with being second.

[Bigdaddy]

There is an ever decreasing market in older sports cards as more and more get graded. Unless you count re-submits, they are slowly, but steadily, working towards a finite limit of the number of cards that might be submitted for grading. As a business, they have to keep targeting new markets.

I'm not surprised.

[Touch'EmAll]

A few:

[Johnny630]

I wonder how SGC Modern/Ultra Modern Sell in Relation To PSA?

Do buyers pay the same or close to premium as they do on Pre War?