Ideas that can make collecting much simpler

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What are some things in the hobby that can be implemented to make life in collecting easier? I have an idea.

It would be very convenient if grading companies give you an option at the end of the grading form that states “would you like to provide your username” next to the freshly graded cert # so people who are interested in cards can directly reach out and message the submitter of the card right when it hits the pop report.

Ive lost count how many times I see peoples insta stories saying “who graded this??” and then wait and pray for it to be listed. An option to pick and choose if youd like to make your username known once a card is graded would make life in collecting much simpler. It would be the submitters choice if theyd like to remain anonymous or not. Win / win situation. You get instant and direct interested buyers by doing absolutely nothing.

Just an idea.

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If I’m understanding your suggestion correctly, this would be a financial loss for PSA and wouldn’t make sense for them to let people find people that easily.

This would cut them out being the middleman between seller and buyer through the likes of the eBay/PSA vault and lose their commission if they set parties up to message on IG for free.

What you can currently do however, which granted is a bit more cumbersome is add a card to the PSA set registry. If someone looks up the card set and you have your set published (with scans ideally), have your profile public (ideally your IG username etc) and also allow members to message you. Then in theory a buyer could message you directly or on your socials and could make a deal happen that cuts out the middleman as it were.

Cool idea though, just wouldn’t make much sense for them to implement it.

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With this idea I feel it would be a liability issue on PSA that they might not want to take. Labels are messed up sometimes so leaving out/adding in a name on even one label could lead to some serious issues.

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How would this be a financial loss for psa by simply adding your psa username next to a freshly graded card on their own website? I may have misunderstood what you wrote. When I grade cards with beckett, I get my cards back and list them on ebay or instagram. If beckett implements adding my beckett username next to the freshly graded card and people could reach out to me on becketts site directly that would be better for them no? I wouldnt have to go list it on ebay or mercari anymore. Beckett can charge a fee for a direct sale on their site and make even more money. And cut out ebay in general. How would that financially impact them? Wouldnt that benefit them? Its just for convenience. Its simply adding your beckett username next to the card you graded. Nothing more nothing less. I might be missing something though and may have misunderstood what youre saying. My apologies if I did.

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If Pokemon would start putting Rookie Card symbols on a Pokemon’s first card so we can tell easier.

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You wouldnt be adding the username on the label. I should have clarified a bit better. The username would pop up in the sites pop report next to the freshly graded card. For example, when I go to beckett to see if any new charizards from brilliant stars have been graded 10s, I see their cert #s, I see the date the card was graded. When I see a new one was just graded, I sit and wait for someone to either post it somewhere or come out with it. Instead of sitting and waiting, users on beckett can choose to add their username next to the card they submitted so interested buyers can reach out directly and faster right on becketts site. All that would change would be a username next to the cert # on that page. Thats it. So people can click and message you directly on the bgs website. It would also be your choice to click that option, your choice not psa’s/becketts.

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I don’t want to find out who on E4 is grading all these waifus :pikasweat:

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Right under “cards graded above this card” you just add another line with the persons username that submitted that card for grading. Thats all. Just so you can reach out to him and sell directly on becketts site. Hope that cleared up any confusion.

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What about when a card is sold? How would you remove that provenance afterwards? Plenty of cards get cracked for that reason making fakes out there scary for businesses that want to sell. Alot of people would be trying very hard to ruin reputations saying “this was the person who scammed you”, etc.

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Im glad your asking these questions. Its interesting. Right now its just a suggestion to add a username. Its not that complex. Nothing crazy, just adding a username so people can choose to reach out to you if you wish. Your choice.

Off the top of my head since you asked, the user can just mark it as sold so people stop reaching out if the card gets sold or you can simply remove your username whenver you feel like it. You chose the option to show your username. That can come with an agreement terms and conditions. Its the submitters choice. Im not sure how adding a username to the page I listed above would be a negative to any grading site. Theyd be doing their users and buyers a favor. And themselves. For convenience.

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Gotcha. Im kinda pessimistic with my questions, but I mean well. I wouldnt mind seeing it, but wanna full proof methods and dot all my i’s, and stuff.

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If pokemon released a collection completion set after the set rotated out, 1 copy of every card in the set. It would make it simpler for collectors while not flooding the market for players. They wont do it but think of how nice it would be to buy a full set straight from pokemon in NM condition. No messing around with dozens of sellers or getting ripped off for a high value chase, just pay a dumb amount of money and have a whole set delivered.

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Everything should be criticized when in the beginning steps. Im the same way. Helps you improve it. I think people may have misunderstood me and I should have taken the time to explain it better.

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I’ll try to explain the best I can, so bear with me. Since I was talking about PSA specifically I’ll drive into them first.

When you grade cards with PSA they have the option to either ship cards back to you or you can vault your cards with them. This vault used to be the eBay vault which has now since been rebranded as the PSA vault. This PSA vault is now the official vault for eBay since Collectors (PSA’s parent company) partnered with eBay.

Due to this partnership PSA now has their own eBay store which allows you to grade your cards with them, store your cards in the PSA vault and you can sell them on eBay through PSA’s store simultaneously without any hassle.

Buyers likewise can purchase cards on eBay from the PSA store and store those cards in the PSA vault which transfers ownership fluidly.

Yes, there’s fees involved in many steps to this which I won’t get into.

In your scenario, if PSA allows a username to be displayed on their website on the population report or through the certification verification page etc then you’re removing eBay and their partnership from this equation. PSA has no interest in helping you find a buyer/seller to do a deal outside of a fee structure as commission is big business for them I would imagine.

PSA allows you to sell through them on eBay which has such a huge reach, that’s one of the best scenarios you could ask for as a seller. This reach eBay has is far superior than what PSA’s website could advertise for you if they were to allow selling directly. Plus not many people would search for cards on their site to begin with. So why would anyone bother? As a buyer, you would just follow the PSA store and save your searches on eBay.

PSA is certainly not a marketplace like eBay or Fanatics Collects and I think you’ve missed out how huge an operation that would be for any company to undertake. Especially when PSA has partnered with eBay to solve all these problems for them. PSA doesn’t have the hassle of shipping cards to buyers, having to resolve disputes and claims of item not received and non paying buyers. They let eBay do all that work for them.

As for Beckett, if they’d allow usernames next to their certs then they’d need to either set up an entire marketplace on their website and a fee structure to make it profitable or just let people do deals behind the scenes on their socials. So it would either be a huge expense for them or a potential headache when someone inevitably gets scammed going through DMs and that wouldn’t even generate a profit, so why bother.

Maybe I’m missing the point here but that’s just how I’m viewing this from a business point of view. As a collector I agree it would certainly make things easier for sure.

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Thanks for sharing that and you brought up great points. I realized also for psa that it wouldnt make sense since their pop reports are massive and their cards appear daily and way more often to the public markets. Its easy to find 95% of psa cards out there that you want unless were talking extremely low pops or specific cards. No one really has trouble tracking down the majority of psa cards and this wouldnt make sense for psa as a whole. When I thought of this I was thinking of how difficult it was to acquire beckett 10s and translated it into psa and cgc without realizing its a whole different ballgame.

As for beckett now thinking about it, I feel it would be a good system to implement more so. Whether the transaction is done directly on the site or just simply letting people know a username with no transactions allowed on the site. I agree that zero of these grading companies would ever implement this, especially if they’re not taking your money in the process and being greedy. It would be so convenient if they did though and a collectors dream. I can imagine the days of hoping and praying someone lists a card are gone and you can easily just click a username and ask directly the day its freshly graded. Can someone just invent this idea and be a 3rd party company that deals with these grading companies in order to make this happen :sob: take my money!

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Back to the original question…

  1. Budget
  2. Chase what you are interested in, not what someone else is interested in.
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  1. Stop watching YouTube investing bros
  2. Become a binder collector
  3. Enjoy the art
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  1. Build a time machine
  2. Travel back to the mid 2000s
  3. Enjoy
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I would bet real money that every single person on e4 fantasizes at least once a day about what they’d do if they could transfer all their current knowledge back into 8-year-old them. The shops they’d go to first, the packs and cards they’d pick up first, the car washes and lawn mowing jobs they’d do to earn as much cash as possible to buy more products. I mean, I’m not saying I already have an intricate plan and timeline laid out in case this ever happens to me. But I definitely do.

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At this point I would like a single CLEAN site that aggregates listings and can search across all 35 marketplaces/auction sites at once

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