lol no
I’m laughing but not for any reason you described 
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Are you drunk posting or something?
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This guy
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I mean if I didn’t know what I wanted to buy and could get random mystery box with graded psa slabs, that’s pretty neat. Highly endorse.
Yeah it’s hilarious guys,
japanese psa office has customers of 30 members, mostly on this forum, get next day $20 rushh grading for newly released promos, the japanese cards are going 25x price, and then the english cards are doing Ok, perhaps a bit lower actually, not sure who to point fingers to.
How wonderful would it be for PSA to offer some nice pricing for folks living in $10.10 usd min wage per hour for hard work areas. I believe these workers would like to grade a card at least, for an hours worth of work.
Thank you
I agree on all points here, @pfm . I’d also like to add a question or two, @dblast :
I’m curious, why do you say their losing their customers?
And why is it unfair for someone to be unable to afford to grade a card?
In the end, aren’t we talking luxury goods, or at least, expendable-income goods? (I can’t think of the right term right now…) I mean, I wish I could afford a set of endless frames for my skates right now, but I can’t justify the cost. I’d love to buy a new phone, but I don’t need it and would rather buy shiny cardboard than 1000$ of tech in my pocket. 
I don’t see how any of these things are unfair? And in the end, isn’t grading always a profit value proposition? Especially for PSA (and others). When they start seeing their ledgers get slim, they’ll adjust the price. Either that, or they’ll sack graders, but if they can get more orders by dropping the price. That looks better on their books.
considering the graded cards released by bgs cgc, it appears they are attracting more graders by grading through other grading means. I can’t speak for PSA, they’re pretty top notch all minus they could offer a nice promo.
I could be wrong as I’m just getting back into collectibles, has PSA given sub $7-10 grading in the last '22 or’23 (last 6 qtr specs?) Lowering prices is important if they want to grade way more cards, get orders for thousands of dollars per customer, I imagine some card sellers have lowered prices for their inventory as well. The grading prices seem quite high, yes too high and pushing collectors not to grade cards.
Is that a thing? Where can I sign up?
My most recent submission to PSA Japan is expected to take 5 months
I’m not here to get into semantics, apparently in US the card grading specials are actually not very good
Roughly 3500 JPY per card, which is around $24. That’s the cheapest service available btw.
Pretty expensive pricing there too.
These grading companies would have a wider net of grading submissions, and surely a lot of the bulk raw cards have gone through grading in the last 3 years. They can open the low low prices, flex on other grading companies, for a short window of time like a special. Pokemon collectors all over would like to try submitting a card as well.
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hey @dblast capitalism exists. Start a grading company and charge $2 per slab if you want.
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Er what? The price itself is fine, not everything needs to be encased in plastic - I’d even argue that there are already too many cards encased that don’t deserve to be.
Species and artists collectors may hunt me down but bulk non-holos/modern reverse holos have no business being graded. (Yet there are tens of thousands of cards in this category across all sets/TCGs etc)
What’s too much are PSA upcharges when they do nothing different in terms of service, and even have the same risk of damaging your card lol. That’s a joke.
If you don’t think grading is priced fairly, don’t grade with the company. Vote with your dollar.
If enough people do the same, either the company will lower their prices or new competition will pop up.
If you do grade at the current prices, why would they ever lower their prices? They exist to make a profit.
This applies to many things in life. Supply and demand ebbs and flows to meet each other surprisingly well.
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Clearly not grading, I’m sure they notice.
Backlog can be solved hiring 2 additional graders per office, problem solved.
Big brain
summary of all dblast’s E4 posts
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Grading isn’t a requirement to enjoy collecting cards.
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