Share Your Grading Turnaround Time!

Submitted my first ever PSA reholder order (PSA 10 Japanese Jungle Flareon) and it’s been in Research & ID for a month now. I guess I naively thought that would fly through faster than a regular submission? But hey I’m a dreamer

stuff that arrives in a slab takes waaaayyyyy longer for me too. Ive gone a couple GCR subs now and man are they slow

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You use graded card review? :eyes:

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express service (1 card)
11/22 arrived and enter
11/29 grade available and waiting to be ship

not bad. I didn’t see the grade yet. I want to surprise myself when it arrive.

How long has qa2 been lasting?

For my economy sub earlier this month it was about 4-5 business days

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July $18 Special:
Arrived: 08/02
Entered: 08/24
QA2: 11/1 - HOLD 11/8 - Card damaged
Complete/Shipped: 11/10

October $15 Special 1:
Arrived:10/11
Entered: 10/13
Grading: 11/3
Assembly: 11/7
Complete/Shipped: 11/23

October $15 Special 2:
Arrived: 10/17
Entered: 10/21
Grading: 10/25
Assembly: 11/8
QA1: 11/10
Complete/Shipped: 11/22

October $15 Special 3:
Arrived: 11/3
Entered: 11/9
Grading: ~11/21

I did express twice. about 2-3 days

Another month of returns:

Grader Service Days Deliver to Ship from
CGC MEC. ERROR 15 10/31 11/15
CGC ECONOMY 9 11/7 11/16
CGC ECONOMY 14 11/8 11/22
CGC ECONOMY 8 11/14 11/22
CGC BULK 9 11/7 11/16
CGC BULK 5 11/16 11/21
PSA EXPRESS 10 11/21 12/1
PSA REGULAR 9 11/2 11/11
PSA REGULAR 11 11/4 11/15
PSA REGULAR 13 11/17 11/30
PSA VALUE 21 10/26 11/16
BGS STANDARD 29 10/16 11/14
BGS STANDARD 9 11/7 11/16

Some are a bit slower than usual due to new card entry and the holiday last week. CGC in particular has been abysmal about adding new cards for any TCG that isn’t Pokémon - I’ve got a couple orders that have been sitting for weeks waiting to be registered.

Aside from that I’m pretty happy with the turn times from all 3 graders at this point. I think my top request now would just be price drops for the higher PSA tiers.

Assembly for this order: 12/02/2022

$15 special

Arrived 10/24
Entered 10/28
Don’t remember
Assembly 11/23
QA1 12/2
QA2 12/2
Shipping 12/14
Awaiting shipment.

PSA 7-card Economy Sub:

11/22: Shipped
11/25: Arrived
11/29: Entered Into System
11/30: R&ID
12/5: Grading
12/7: Assembly
12/8: QA1
12/10: QA2
12/13: Grades Available

Meanwhile, I’ve had a single slab reholder in R&ID since 11/4

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CGC Bulk - 26 cards

Shipped out - 10/24/22
Received - 10/27/22
Entered - 10/31/22
Grades Received - 12/6/22
Shipped - 12/7/22
Delivered - 12/13/22

$15 PSA TCG Special:

Arrived: 11/03
Entered: 11/08
Research: 11/08
Grading: 11/30
Assembly: 12/07
QA1: 12/15
QA2: 12/16
QA2.5: 01/03
Grades: 01/13
Shipping: 01/19

EDIT: Also have a single slab QAR in R&ID hold since 11/04 (also arrived on 11/03).

Here are my 2 $15 PSA Specials that have gotten through the pipeline:

#1

Shipped 10-22
Arrived 10-26
Research 10-31
Grading 11-7
Assembly 12-7
QA1 12-27
QA2 12-28
Shipping 1-5

#2

Shipped 10-30
Arrived 11-4
Research 11-9
Grading 11-11
Assembly 12-13
QA1 12-14
QA2 12-19
Shipping 12-28
Shipped 12-29

Order #1 arrived a week before Order #2 but somehow #2 got out first. Both had a similar mix of mostly modern and a little bit of vintage, mostly English but some Japanese and some Korean Yugioh.

$15 Special
252 cards
Arrived 11/11
Entered 11/15
Shipping back to me 1/10 (or next week it’s not yet at Fedex)
So most likely I will have them back end of next week.

PSA Bulk at $19 rate.

Arrived 1/9
Entered 1/13
RD 1/16
Grading 1/18
Assembly 1/19
Q/A 1 1/26
Q/2 2/2

Des special
Arrival 12/28
Entered 12/28
Finished 1/18

Fastes 61 cards i have sent in.

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I have an order who moved today to Q2, it arrived at 27 dec. So that one is going fastttttt.

Same here with a 3 card reholder from 11/7… it’s getting frustrating with their estimate of 30 (biz) days turnaround time.