SGC Registry – Why isn’t there one?

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by theshowandme

SGC could hire a database & web user experience/interface (UX/UI) consulting group any pay them $1-1.5 million to get this done in under 2 years.

But they will not do that.

These companies rarely spend the money on the right tech.

Agreed. And I would bet it could be done a lot quicker than that.

SGC has been asked flavors of the "Where is the Registry?" question now for almost as long as there has been an SGC, which is 25 years. Yes, there were attempts and rough versions in the past that worked or didn't work to some extent, but they have never approached what PSA has.

Why worry about it? If you've watched any of the recent YouTuber videos featuring Peter Steinberg at SGC, it's pretty clear that in the last 2-3 years, SGC has been growing like a teenager on steroids. There was all the knee-jerk stuff during the pandemic where they said "Send us your cards" and the hobby at large called their bluff when PSA shut down, and they got totally buried for months. Then after that they got their feet back under them, but have played a lot of pricing yo-yo games - some of them at least arguably less than professional - since. Can you see why a registry is probably not a priority throughout all of this? Either way and at many different price points, there are plenty of collectors who still seem super willing to send them their cards. Cha-ching, thank you; come again. Honestly for me, if you can enter your cert somewhere with SGC and they can verify the card - even the older slabs - that's good enough for me at this point. They have nice looking slabs and a lot of other stuff going for them. I wouldn't be in a hurry to get back to the registry punchline either...