I’m guessing they will create buy/sell lists and then people in their partner program will place bid for those. I’m guessing it’ll be a lowball like GameStop would do maybe 50-70% of comps
Are you sure it’s PSA directly buying or are they acting as an intrrmediary? From the video I saw it sounded like it’s third parties that are actually purchasing.
A pretty cool system would be being able to search for everything actively in the vault. So I could search “Eevee Fan Club” and the results would only show PSA 9 and not cert numbers. You can make an offer, and that would show up in the PSA system to the owner with a % fee tied in already.
I wonder if they’ll show you buy prices before you put a card into the vault, like when your grades are in. Would be nice to know what you’d get offered before you vault.
If that’s the case I may look at dusting off my old to-grade pile. Depends what the offer prices look like. Imagine being able to cut out the return shipping fees to the UK along with the entire process of listing, packing, paying for postage, dispatching and dealing with crappy buyers.
This is what it says, seems like its all low value stuff anyway (<$200 or so). which is actually might be a good thing if you dont really wanna deal with those i found a couple more that would be ~bin price less ebay fees. there are ones like 1st ed base commons psa 10s for eg. where the offer seems decent but those are pretty easy to get “above comps” for
If I can just immediately liquidate grading misses, ultra modern 9s etc for even close to break even and not have to deal with them + save on shipping returns then I am all for that
I was shocked to see some offers on my vaulted cards the other day, and was going to make a thread tonight, but pfm beat me to it. They offered me $327 for a PSA 9 Neo Revelation Shining Magikarp and $164.25 for a PSA 9 Neo Revelation Houndoom. Both of these are unlabeled double holo errors, so I wasn’t particularly enthused by the offers.
I would not be shocked if the largest buyer was GameStop.
Nat Turner (CEO and Chairman of Collectors, which owns and operates PSA) recently joined GameStop’s Board of Directors. GameStop also began buying/selling PSA graded cards this year, and now allows/encourages customers to submit their cards to PSA for grading through GameStop.
GameStop has wanted to align with the sports/trading card collectibles business for a while, and has finally taken pretty substantial steps toward that goal. I would expect even more to come from the PSA-GameStop relationship moving forward.