SGC Going Away?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Here's the best business reason I can come up with to ditch SGC. Collector's shutters SGC and announces a special deal to cross all of those cards to PSA slabs. Massive influx of cash for little effort.

[jjbond]

I’ve said it before. I’d love for all vintage to be shipped to SGC (whether under its current name, PSA, or some new PSA Vintage title). I see no reason why modern graders should be looking at 100+ year old stuff.

[Beercan collector]

Crazy idea and a bit off topic - make one of them vintage only so we don’t gotta wait months and months for a company grading millions of modern crap.
Edit - Wow JJ bond addressed this while I was typing

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Here's the best business reason I can come up with to ditch SGC. Collector's shutters SGC and announces a special deal to cross all of those cards to PSA slabs. Massive influx of cash for little effort.

I am not disagreeing with you but they already do that in a way. Every time they change the flip or slab that is what happens. There are 2 major reasons I sold off 99% of my graded cards and the slab/flip change is one of them. Now this is just my opinion. When SGC changed their flip last time my first thought was I NEED to get my cards reholdered. Then I realized for myself as a collector I had a problem and sold sold sold.

[ZiggerZagger]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Here's the best business reason I can come up with to ditch SGC. Collector's shutters SGC and announces a special deal to cross all of those cards to PSA slabs. Massive influx of cash for little effort.

Scott -- great point. This is what a few collecting friends and I were spitballing last year as well.

Could easily see PSA offering a window for folks to get their SGC cards crossed over to PSA holders at grade -- probably coinciding with PSA formally shutting down new SGC submissions at some point.
"We recognize the rigorous historical standards of SGC grading are in line with our own here at PSA, etc, etc, etc.", and no charge if an SGC slab does not cross. Great moneymaker, and a way to refocus collectors to a new reality with TPG.

I'm probably 95% PSA in my collection, and would cross most of the rest if offered the chance to do so affordably. That is despite positive memories and experiences grading with and working with SGC in the past.
That said, I'd feel compelled to keep my T206 Lionel Carter Cobb and a T227 Charles Nagy Cobb in their original SGC holders. There would be something not right in my mind with failing to respect that provenance and history with SGC.
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[The Nasty Nati]

I’ve actually seen PSA slabs with the Lionel Carter collection designation. So at some point someone crossed those SGC slabs to PSA, and PSA kept the provenance.

Originally Posted by ZiggerZagger

Scott -- great point. This is what a few collecting friends and I were spitballing last year as well.

Could easily see PSA offering a window for folks to get their SGC cards crossed over to PSA holders at grade -- probably coinciding with PSA formally shutting down new SGC submissions at some point.
"We recognize the rigorous historical standards of SGC grading are in line with our own here at PSA, etc, etc, etc.", and no charge if an SGC slab does not cross. Great moneymaker, and a way to refocus collectors to a new reality with TPG.

I'm probably 95% PSA in my collection, and would cross most of the rest if offered the chance to do so affordably. That is despite positive memories and experiences grading with and working with SGC in the past.
That said, I'd feel compelled to keep my T206 Lionel Carter Cobb and a T227 Charles Nagy Cobb in their original SGC holders. There would be something not right in my mind with failing to respect that provenance and history with SGC.
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[ZiggerZagger]

Originally Posted by The Nasty Nati

I’ve actually seen PSA slabs with the Lionel Carter collection designation. So at some point someone crossed those SGC slabs to PSA, and PSA kept the provenance.

Thanks for that Ben! I hadn't seen that previously myself, but makes good sense.

I'll prefer to keep such cards in the original SGC holders, just given the documented history of those cards being turned over to SGC -- but 100% to each their own.
Glad that historical provenance is not being lost with the crossover process.

As the Net54 saying goes, every thread needs a card (or two). Both were an absolute joy to add many years back now.
I can't tell if the Nagy reeks of cigarette smoke through the slab, sadly
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[Jay Wolt]

Jason those are great cards
I had 1 of the Lionel Carter T206 Cobb's...Wish I still had it