The following updates apply to new card grading submissions as of May 14, 2026.
Current Estimated Completion Ranges (Business Days):
Value Bulk: 150–170 (This is like 7-8 Months) - CRAZY
Value: 110–130
Value Plus: 70–90
Value Max: 50–60
Regular: 40–50
Express: 30–40
Super Express: 20–25
Walk-Through & Higher: 15–20
Are sports cards booming too or is this solely because of Pokemans?
It’s everything that can be considered “collectible,” though I’m sure Pokémon is a massive percentage of the total sum.
People are grading tv episode scripts and opened, pre-owned video games. That’s where the grading industry is at right now.
lol.
Thank goodness my last submissions are all in grading/assembly. See you next year (maybe) PSA!
Imagine express going from 5 days last year to now 2 months
“Express” lol they need to change the name of that tier
Also, 6-7 months on value tier which is $33 is wild
Value bulk is insane. If you submit today your expected return is next year…..
Not to mention the risk this carries. You BETTER be sure these are psa 10 worthy cards. Imagine waiting that long and losing money after gettinf them back
To be fair, 120 business days is roughly 5 months! I do appreciate that they announced the change instead of just asking forgiveness later. Also the 50 card minimum bulk sucks massive pokeballs.
But don’t you like the free 3 months membership, we’re giving you free money basically! /s
My email Was from Canada side. I guess they changed the grading times for direct Canadian submissions versus USA
depressing
Fr. Prices go up so more people submit so supply gets bottlenecked so prices go up
Yeah the 50 card minimum for bulk is insanity.
I could buy a 2000 pt warhammer army for less than the cost grade 50 cards at value bulk.
If you are selling these cards off, I feel like it’s just the cost of doing business. As a collector it stinks!
120 business days is 6 months
general rule of thumb > 20 business days per month
I wanted to send some of my cards and even try and cross grade one of my slabs i guess i will have to wait until next year. This really sucks 
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Well what do you expect, every person on the planet is grading everything. The stupidest most mundane low grade low value cards I look up on ebay half the listings are graded. I don’t get the obsession with grading unless of course it’s 9/10 worthy for mid to high and any grade in $500+ cards.
Think the company is gonna change anything and hire ppl etc? They don’t care and no one is incentivizing them to change.
it’s because people need a return on investment
It was different when people were able to rip at msrp. But now? Okay person “Z” rips $500 of way over priced destined rivals packs and doesnt pull the chase (as expected) now the person wants to grade his “hits” to try to recoup at least some of the money back. It’s a cycle that is exasperated by the current climate in a domino affect
It also makes the chases all the more expensive because ripping is so pricey and grading is so slow and expensive. And the higher the “chase” goes up in value the more people want to gamble and rip packs because “they need that treekachu $4,000 psa10” which is a 1 in 1500+ pull. so they of course dont get it but blew hundreds on way above msrp packs so they overload psa with everything they DID pull
and it just cycles out of control worse and worse
This isn’t how things work. PSA isn’t backed up because rip-and-ship customers are grading their bulk ex hits. It’s backed up because we are in the midst of a massive, everything-everywhere-all-at-once boom that has made so many cards from 10-year-old Japanese commons to the biggest modern hits profitable to grade even at $25/card. Demand for graded cards is at an all-time high. The value proposition of graded cards has never been higher. There are multiple reasons for this, but all of them trace back to the broader market which is so much bigger than many of us can comprehend.
Your statement seems to be refering to the market at large
My comment is a reply to the poster above me about how “The stupidest most mundane low grade low value cards I look up on ebay half the listings are graded”
And im explaining why people are grading mundane low value cards. Because they have some value now
We agree on the outcome (mundane cards are getting graded way more), but that’s not because of rip-and-shippers. People aren’t grading the most mundane cards because they want to try to make back money on modern bulk, it’s because this insane market makes it actually profitable to grade (usually somewhat vintage “low pop”) mundane commons.
I have so much bulk from opening Japanese XY boxes back in the day and I go through it every other week or so and pull out a bunch more cards that are now $100+ in a 10. I don’t think anyone is grading bulk modern commons that they’d get from rip and ship, and if they were it would not be financially viable.
Once my last subs come back I’m thinking this is a perfect opprotunity to take a break and just enjoy the family/friends/life/binders/gaming/smelling the flowers.
