I’d rather pay $15 over $10, and not wait 9-12 months to get my cards back
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Sure, you hire 1000 more people to grade 1 million cards a day for the first few weeks, then you fire them all because there aren’t enough cards to grade.
Not to mention safety, more staff means more risk of accidents such as theft/loss of parcels, whether accidental or intentional
I don’t think this is a good solution.
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@dblast if you want to make friends on here I suggest you learn how to respectfully make your point. And calling @pokebuffet a liar?! What? Why? Let’s be nice alright. We can disagree without flaming others.
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Just another dblast thread…
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it’s sad how many people have forgotten this
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Cheers!
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If you think grading is too expensive, for the price of grading 1-2 cards, you can just buy a binder that holds 360 cards.
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New thread idea: are binder companies charging too much for binders???
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Binder companies expect people to spend 2 hours of wage on a plastic booklet?! The hobby is doomed
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Gotta beat that with Are Sleeves too Expensive!?!
Just trying to help grading companies as they are running out of ideas to generate volume submissions.
The grading companies have dwindled down to two options:
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Release the Psa 11/10 platinum with a sliver of gold inside.
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Release lower bulk pricing for graders during these tough tough times.
I’m fine if they release the psa 11 and I can chase it.
The people who are employed at said min wages are the heroes that could use some brightness, whether it be grading holo or non holos, affordable grading is key.
Japanese sellers laughing ass off selling grades $1-3 cards and then they are worth thousands, then bring raw card price up to half psa 10.
Seriously, there must be change. Either the English market brains have shrunk after COVID or terrible grading companies offering very high prices for grading.
I can’t be the only person thinking card grading is expensive. You all know it’s ridiculous, it’s been years since a good holiday special, people are getting old and can’t even put the card in plastic slabs.
It’s important to hold these grading companies accountable and expect them to help the majority of new interested collectible folks. The Pokémon reddits are cluttered with recent moms and dads into collecting, it would be nice for them to be able to join the collectible slab market.
Pokémon wins with profit with sealed boosters, grading companies can help develop market by supporting collectibles at more affordable rates.
This isn’t rocket science. ~Bring us the PSA 11/10, tired of the graded 9 going black label or cgc 10
Absolute garbage. We are not blind. Maybe the grading companies are blind and deaf, clearly not listening to public that would increase their bottom line. Speak up if it’s too expensive, this thread is for you guys.
I think you are missing the fact that PSA is happy with their current demand and output
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He isn’t missing it…
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Did I stutter, it’s so expensive to grade, they would be happier with more customers. And we don’t know if they are really happy, just a suggestion from a collector:
Bring the PSA 12 or hire more people, create jobs for 1-2 years for the temp graders is adding 2-5 more jobs for a year, that’s massive. Slow roll the English graders unless they pay well, it would assist with prices of cards stability. Is easier control, more money, happier customers.
Bring the psa 12
People like the 10, instead of having 3 grades for the same card (BGS).
Diminishing returns is what you are suggesting. Charging $15/card to grade gives them more profit than charging $7.50/card to grade and having to hire double the staff, office space, shippers, sonic welders, etc. PSA doesn’t want any additional customers, that would put them back into a backlog that got them in trouble in 2021
And why is holo considered junk slab when 1st bulbasaur non holo is 2k and junk slab?
We need to grade more bulbasaurs in bulk and holos and non holos if people would like, and let the market decide it’s values.
Everyone knows grading is super expensive.
It wouldn’t be unheard of for psa to bring nice quarterly grading, to give support for Pokémon vs cash grab. I’m just saying what’s happened in past would be nice again, it’s not looking too fantastic in the times, these English card holders hands can handle longer waits, and it gives more jobs to graders at psa and clients that grade and sell cards.
Unless the grading companies like throwing away or auctioning unpaid slabs in mystery boxes, absolutely ridiculous and not sure if that’s good for the poke market… less throwaways with better pricing. Tossing 20% submissions is ridiculous.
They would actually be happier with less customers, and the same overall amount of money
I believe they scaled up facilities and equipment previously to accommodate for the increased demand post COVID.
Recent economic conditions may have caused less grading volume, and it’s not clear during these infant times of poke collectibles if it’s worth putting into slabs. Lower prices would help.
It would not be that difficult for them to scale up again.
Many individuals would spend 20-50k grading annually that are not currently grading, if prices were better. That or go years $0 grading from individuals, let the speedy graders go to cgc. Apparently it’s not hard for them to scale up, I don’t even hear about the cgc robot that eats the Pokémon card and grades it anymore. Some new cgc easement toward 10s is lol
When backlog is intense, much more $150 express graders too, which makes a significant amount of profit to offset graders and scale.
That’s losing market to cgc and undermining their own grading company, even cgc has been lowering prices over time before easing 10 considerations.
From consumer perspective, We should ask for better grading prices.
The gradering companies have a fraction of previous grader submissions and now they are bending toward ease of grades vs the issue ~pricing.
Most industries are working harder to upkeep previous cash flows, service providers like grading companies are failing the graders with their pricing, especially since market changed economically and there is less cheap money.