SGC'S Aggressive Upcharges

[parkplace33]

Maybe this has something to do with it.

Most likely, this is coming from the collector's buyout. More changes.

[raulus]

Snowman was right! Beckett is crushing it with their fixed fee grading.

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by raulus

Snowman was right! Beckett is crushing it with their fixed fee grading.

Truly, I don't know how they are surviving. I guess the autograph services?

[Balticfox]

Just say "No!" to the bastiches. That's the answer.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Just say "No!" to the bastiches. That's the answer.

Not if you want to get top $$ for the items.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Not if you want to get top $$ for the items.

Well then those top $$ are going to have to come from someone else. If you take out and show me a bunch of plastic slabs, I'll just shake my head and walk away.

But go ahead and finance SGC's business if you want. It's your choice.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Well then those top $$ are going to have to come from someone else. If you take out and show me a bunch of plastic slabs, I'll just shake my head and walk away.

But go ahead and finance SGC's business if you want. It's your choice.

Preach!

The Collectors buyout has already ruined them. As predicted, it didn't take long. Rooting hard for CGC to make inroads, and cut into the others' market share.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Balticfox

Well then those top $$ are going to have to come from someone else. If you take out and show me a bunch of plastic slabs, I'll just shake my head and walk away.

But go ahead and finance SGC's business if you want. It's your choice.

Now that's both a narrow-minded and self-righteous comment. I could not care less about SGC's business, I care about my business. Grading services are tools for making money, period. My goal when I send in a card is to make it more readily fungible and more valuable for resale. If a slab helps me achieve my goals, I take it. If not, I leave it.

The times I have been upcharged, I have been just fine to pay the difference because it meant that my item was worth a lot more than I thought. The services all have guidelines posted up-front, which I have to accept when I decide to purchase the service, including price tiers. It isn't like an upcharge falls out of the sky. PSA recently hit me with a $50 upcharge because I'd inadvertently submitted an item a tier below its declared value. No complaints on my side with that.

[Snowman]

Originally Posted by raulus

Snowman was right! Beckett is crushing it with their fixed fee grading.

To be fair, Beckett graded about 46x as many cards this month as I did.

[Fred]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Maybe this has something to do with it.

Most likely, this is coming from the collector's buyout. More changes.

The quoted message is from post #6. That data to me is very interesting. In my mind, if a trend begins that indicates MoM and YoY drops for a prolonged period of time, then I'm wondering if that could/might be associated with prices in the hobby coming down precipitously.