Two specific cards from the set, which PSA had halted grading on due to a lack of reliable sources for card numbering confirmation, are now eligible for grading: Venusaur and Raichu. Read this entry on the PSA Blog to get caught up on this recent development. 1/4/22 PSA is now using...
PSA On-Site Grading at the 2024 National Sports Card Collectors Convention (NSCC). / Will Stearn & Ben Burrows for CLLCT | via cllct.com | https://www.cllct.com/sports-collectibles/memorabilia/behind-the-scenes-with-psa-grading-operation-at-the-national PSA’s grading delays...
The up-to-date information on the orders is great, and the images of the cards then they are both in the grading process, and then completed, are really breathtaking. You quite literally get the opportunity to follow the image of each specific card as it goes through the process. The ...
PSA messed up my recent submission, misclassifying my entire 25-card 1930 WD & HO Wills Golfers set as N4 “Questionable Authenticity.” This was part of a larger 300-card order with a total grading fee of $6,000. Despite providing detailed supporting materials—including original packaging (...
I would say that CSG's grading standards may be the best, and they might have the second best (after BGS) holders for protecting the encased card. That said, PSA's registry is far more complete than CSG's. That increases the demand for PSA graded cards. This is reflected in most CU...
When PSA halted its card-grading services amid a backlog of submissions in March, it vowed that it would resume at least some of its services by July 1. It honored that vow Thursday by bringing back one of its most popular services.
particularly ones who collect the same sets. Which could lead to more grading submissions of cards that currently have a lower population instead of collectors simply waiting for a card that they’re looking for to show up on eBay. With any luck, it may also inspire others to join in the...
Not only is it a challenge to find and train graders, it can sometimes be difficult to retain them as well. Graders get such an up close, intimate look at the hobby that they have knowledge that can be used to make more money than what the card-grading services can offer. If ...
It came to us in 2023: the One Ring to rule them all. Discovered in Ontario, it evaded bounties to find safe passage through the grading room and emerge a PSA 9—our burden to bear. But then something happened that the card did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely crea...
PSA doesn’t offer subgrades on their grading. a. I like being able to see in what category my card was ‘dinged’ on. i. When reselling your cards to some collectors it’s extremely important to know the sub-grades, and without them, unless it’s a PSA 10 Gem Mint, it may be ...