After being forced to suspend most of its card-grading services due to a avalanche of submissions, PSA is taking big steps to catch up and improve its grading services. “We’re working our hardest," said Nat Turner, executive chairman of PSA's parent co
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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...
GRADING SERVICES As an authorized PSA dealer, we have priority check-in and priority grading services. While this definitely improves turnaround, we are still subject to PSA delays at almost all services levels. CONSIGNMENT Many clients grade to achieve maximum value and return. We attend shows ...
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 th...
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 ...
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.
Agreed. Unless the grading error is so obvious that it would be an embarrassment to their basic competency, like grading a reprint card as an original. Otherwise, they will deflect and deny. What is interesting about raulus's card is that it was part of a big submission that Moser made ...
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...
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...