Will PSA get back to grading non-national submissions?

[raulus]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I ask because in early April I sent a modern submission and a vintage submission in the same box at the same value levels.

The vintage were to be returned to me and the modern, on a lark, I had them sent to their vault.

The modern were done and at the vault within a few weeks. The vintage is still in grading, and has been for months.

Wondering if it’s because it’s a modern sub, or because I chose to send to their vault, to possibly sell through the Goldin platform?

Interesting wrinkle with the vault. I suppose it's always possible that the vault was a factor in moving your modern submission to the top of the pile. However, my experience over the last ~12 months is that modern flies right through in a few weeks, while vintage takes 3-6 months.

So it may be less about the vault and just more about modern moving quick due to more capacity in that team. I'm guessing they hired aggressively due to a large backlog of modern submissions over the last few years, and now that they've cleared the modern backlog, with modern submissions down these days, there is a lot more modern capacity relative to submissions.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by raulus

Interesting wrinkle with the vault. I suppose it's always possible that the vault was a factor in moving your modern submission to the top of the pile. However, my experience over the last ~12 months is that modern flies right through in a few weeks, while vintage takes 3-6 months.

So it may be less about the vault and just more about modern moving quick due to more capacity in that team. I'm guessing they hired aggressively due to a large backlog of modern submissions over the last few years, and now that they've cleared the modern backlog, with modern submissions down these days, there is a lot more modern capacity relative to submissions.

Thanks for the response. Makes sense. Guessing they don't trust a lot of these newer graders to transition over to vintage.

[WillBBC]

Never thought about the modern vs. vintage piece of this. I've had two modern submissions back door-to-door in 30 calendar days at the standard level. I'm really curious about the submission I dropped off in Chicago. Hoping for more of the same but we shall see.

[etsmith]

I think some of the graders who do modern are now doing vintage. I've seen several PSA returns on YouTube where the vintage returns had some really questionable grading. I'm not sure the graders you do modern know how to judge vintage properly.