PSA to open East Coast Office

[Orioles1954]

Originally Posted by glchen

The next tweet will be:

"PSA is pleased to announce that Derek Grady will be the head grader of the East Coast office, and Brian Dwyer and Michael Goldberg will be running customer service."

OK, poor early April Fool's joke.

That actually wouldn't be too far fetched.

[CMIZ5290]

After seeing larry's "name the grade" thread, who cares?

[joeadcock]

Agreed with Thrill of the Hunt.

The expenses involved in opening and running a new office would be significant. Seems far fetched that there are many customers who haven't graded(because didn't want to send across the country). Would likely need a large increase in submissions to make up the difference of such as venture. Unless there is more to this than is known.

[Davalillo]

If this is true and PSA sets up an east coast office I will immediately deliver 20,000 cards for review. Seriously.

[Touch'EmAll]

Will this be just for cards - PSA division? Or for coins also - PCGS division. If coins also, makes more sense

And I thought I heard rumblings of PCGS/PSA having corporate losses, not gains, even talk of them not being able to make it. Now they are doing better?

Maybe they will come out with new "quarter (.25) grades" for all the registry junkies to promote more business.

[Rich Klein]

Set up -- but not the grading center.

IIRC -- Beckett Grading now has a submission center in the NY metropolitan area --- and that could give them someone who can also help out at East Coast Events rather than having to fly someone accross the Country.

I did something "similiar" in a way in the 1980's -- when I set up at card shows and did work for Baseball Hobby News. I helped with the contests, took subs; and it actually helped my dealing buisness as well as that would be a nice entree to let collectors look at my cards of their favorite players.

It is not as far fetched to think that PSA would do the same thing. I would not be surprised if down the road -- SGC does something similar in the mid-west or far west. Setting up offices to drop off cards as long as you have good shipping options is not really that expensive compared to the full office you need for the main grading part of the company

Regards
Rich

[Orioles1954]

I can almost guarantee this office is going to be out of the Philadelphia area.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

That actually wouldn't be too far fetched.

Actually, yes it would.

[Orioles1954]

Well, being that God apparently put Derek Grady on the earth to grade baseball cards (and produce American Idol contestants), I thought it might happen.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Orioles1954

Well, being that God apparently put Derek Grady on the earth to grade baseball cards (and produce American Idol contestants), I thought it might happen.

Actually, this is what you responded to above:

"PSA is pleased to announce that Derek Grady will be the head grader of the East Coast office, and Brian Dwyer and Michael Goldberg will be running customer service."

OK, poor early April Fool's joke.
That actually wouldn't be too far fetched.





I am sworn to silence for the moment but I am very aware of what two of those gentlemen are doing today. That is why I said it would be far fetched. If I didn't know those things then I would agree with you. Sorry I was sort of short with my first answer....

[bijoem]

I'm looking forward to PSA on the East Coast.

Hopefully that means on-site grading at Philly Shows at some point.

[JamesGallo]

Originally Posted by bijoem

Hopefully that means on-site grading at Philly Shows at some point.

Wouldn't that be interesting. I sometimes think that is PSA did onsite grading in PA and had customer service like SGC if I would love PSA. It makes me think once in a while and then I realize that PSA is a big company and that I would never be able to deal with the same people every time I submitted cards.

Still I find onsite grading very useful but based on how SGC has increased the onsite prices over the years I can't imagine it would be porfitable for PSA either.

It looks like there are a lot of things changing this year and time will tell how they will impact the hobby.

James G

[glynparson]

I always deal with the same person at PSA. His name is Roy Alcala and I feel he offers customer service on par with what Michael, Brian, and myself offered at SGC.