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View Poll Results: How involved are you in the PSA Registry? | |||
I am not involved in any way, shape or form. | 105 | 55.85% | |
I am involved in a very minor way. | 44 | 23.40% | |
I am actively involved in it. | 34 | 18.09% | |
I am completely wrapped up in it. | 5 | 2.66% | |
Voters: 188. You may not vote on this poll |
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This is precisely why I started the thread/poll. It is constantly being asserted that everyone competing in the registry is the reason prices keep going up across the board. I hear this time and time again. Ultra expensive, rare cards? Sure, I can believe it's at least a partial factor there, but suddenly-extortionate 1972 high number pricing is due to the registry chasers?? That is simply impossible to believe. This is why I wanted to see how many of us are motivated by the registry, and the results show (granted it is not scientific) that a very small portion of us consider the registry to be a driving force in our card purchasing decisions.
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COnfusing rising prices with relative market value?
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complaining/commiserating about how they always seem to just lose out bidding for specific cards they want (and how they surmise they are consistently being stretched beyond their budget because reckless "registry collectors" just can't help themselves.) Many posts do seem to take the Registry to be beyond just one of several factors, to the governing factor, the genius idea that made PSA irresistible. . . But maybe it's being recycled among a small cadre and not as common a view as this would make it seem. |
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The registry can have a significant impact on the "value" of items. The New York Yankees issued photos of the team from probably the mid '50s to the early '70s. Some of these team photos include Mickey Mantle (1968 and before). In addition, the team issued photos of Mantle with a brief bio starting around 1963 and continued beyond his retirement. These photos were a single page and folded in three to mail in envelopes (hence sometimes they are called tri-folds). I was able to pick up a few of these for between $12.50 to $32.50 prior to late 2020. Then, they were added to the PSA Mantle registry. I have heard that some these tri-folds were sold for around $300 a piece to people on the Mantle registry. I have only seen a few come on eBay since then. I got a team photo with a BIN late at night and paid for it and had my offer accepted on another team photo from the same seller but was never was asked to pay. In the morning I got an email saying that they'd spilled coffee on both of the team photos and had my money refunded for the one I paid for. I requested photos of the ruined photos and never got them. I know the seller had heard from someone else about the photos because she told me she had. I figured they must have made a higher offer and she took it.
So yes, the registry does result in higher prices and there is competition.
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I stand corrected
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In the case of the addition of items to player registry sets, vs. those items not being included as Mike shared - my experience is the same as his - some incredible price spikes with registry inclusion.
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I've been involved with a couple of sets, but not in the future at those crazy grading prices and long waits.
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Psa registry
Well, I have a #1 Master set of an individual player (guess who). I think I alittle different twist then some on here. I was a collector for years and had acquired any and all cards I thought. When card grading came along I decided to start sending in cards to be graded and sent them in. At that time is was pretty cheap to get cards graded. I then joined the registry very early on.
I have graded duplicates and sold to upgrade my set and have been able to acquire cards I either didn't have or had never seen through ebay. I think the registry is different things to different people, to me its an easy reference when I am looking at cards for sale. Its a great inventory for me. Over time PSA has turned down grading certain cards only to grade them now They have added "junk" as far as I am concerned and recently I had someone offer to loan me a card that I need and said "everyone is doing it". I am sitting on almost a year on getting cards back that I have sent in for grading and I like many, have no intention of paying big bucks to get cards graded. |
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