According to my middleman they are working on a June/July 30 day submission for them.
All the cards are graded for both submissions but Beckett haven’t inputted them into the database/pop report.
Which is a little funny being half the time they forget or don’t even bother to add some cards to the population report.
I have four personal collection cards in the July submission which I have been missing and can’t wait to have back home.
I am guessing 20 day submissions might be further along? August or September 2020 possibly?
Are the PSA complete through dates totally off? I have cards that were submitted Bulk and received 7/30/21 - entered grading phase in mid January but no movement since - assuming that a lot of other people are in a similar boat.
“ Orders that require special handling, have payment or shipping issues may be exceptions to the published Complete Through Dates. If you are waiting for an order that is an exception to the current CTD and you don’t know why, please contact PSA customer service.”
If they were received 7/30/20 (I assume your date of 2021 was a typo) then I would contact PSA and find out what the delay is.
I have a 1st edition Pichu that is Gem Mint besides having 2 extremely faint print lines. They don’t detract from the overall aesthetics of the card in my opinion as you have to look very closely and search hard to detect the lines. I know this will get a 9, and I will be happy with a 9, but has anyone ever had similar cards surprisingly get awarded PSA 10s?
PSA seems to really be tackling the influx of orders from the beginning of March right now. Out of 9 of my orders received 3/1-3/4 5 of them have been entered into the system in the last week. I think they are sorting out the bulk and entering them into the system. Once everything has been entered, we should see a focus on grading phase and pushing orders out the door. I would imagine within the next couple of weeks we should see a significant and constant change in CTD’s.
If it was done through a middleman (Ludkins or Graded Gem) those CTD do not apply to your order. If it was submitted directly, then their dates listed are by when they were entered into the PSA system, not the dates in which they arrived at PSA.
Yes. They received my Super Express last Friday 4/9 and it is currently in the grading process today 4/12. I think Super Express services are going faster post-shutdown.
4/13 EDIT: Currently being slabbed & sonically welded
Delivered via USPS on 3/26/2021
Marked “Arrived” on 3/4/21
Marked “Entered” on 4/13/21
Currently in “Research & ID”
CGC:
Single Japanese card
Shipped via USPS after PSA halted submissions (don’t have the tracking handy for this one to see the arrival date)
Marked “Received” on 4/6/21
Sat in grading and QA for a couple of days
Marked “Shipped” on 4/9/21
The PSA 10’s from the 2 mil cert club are so sus. They always look like strong 8’s. I wonder if there’s going to be a distinction in price and collectability of these 10’s vs PSA 10’s from the 4 mil+ cert club. Having a PSA 10 set that are 4mil+ is more impressive than PSA 10 set of 2mil certs. And it’s looking like getting PSA 10’s from 5 mil is even harder so I wonder if the market will recognize that.
Majority of PSA 10’s from the 2xxx certs are solid 10’s. Whether or not there are less weaker 10s in the 5xxx certs is a different story, but 10s will always carry their premium regardless of cert number. Just pay attention to the cards youre buying.
Total nonsense. PSA’s grading standards haven’t changed and if anything the introduction of upcharges gives them a lot more incentive to incorrectly grade a card up so that they can make more money; on top of that the sheer volume of cards being submitted to PSA also gives them more of an incentive to rush the grading process now just to get things out the door.
The argument against 2xx certs originated from sellers with newly-introduced 4xx cert cards in a market where supply was high. How do I get my 4xx cert card to sell when there are 10 other identical-grade 2xx certs cards on the market? I know, I’ll go around telling everyone that 2xx certs are trash PSA 8s graded as PSA 10s.
Do grading companies get it wrong sometimes? Yes. Does this only affect PSA? Not at all. Do grading companies get it wrong most of the time? No.
As a buyer: make sure to always look over the card you’re buying before putting down any money. This applies to 2xx certs just as much as it applies to 4xx and 5xx certs just as much as it applies to BGS black labels.
As someone who has been analysing PSA’s pop report on a weekly basis for a couple of years now I can tell you there’s no evidence that PSA are any more strict now than they were 2 years ago. The PSA 10 to PSA 9 ratio is pretty much the same as it was back when 2xx certs were being graded.
As a PSA pop report update: PSA have graded at least* 16,200 Pokémon cards in the past week, of which 4,710 received PSA 10 grades and 6,068 received PSA 9 grades.
Interestingly PSA have now graded 1.61 million Pokémon cards, so despite being a few thousand lower than last week 16,200 is just over 1% of all the Pokémon cards PSA have ever seen.
The top 3 cards and top 3 sets are the same as they have been for the past few weeks, so I’m not going to keep repeating that.
As something a bit different, here are the 100 most graded Pokémon in PSA’s pop report:
Charizard - 197,632
Pikachu - 82,425
Blastoise - 41,284
Mewtwo - 39,485
Mew - 34,893
Venusaur - 34,427
Gyarados - 25,236
Zapdos - 24,897
Raichu - 23,190
Dragonite - 19,452
Moltres - 17,534
Machamp - 17,180
Articuno - 16,938
Alakazam - 16,535
Snorlax - 15,584
Magneton - 14,520
Rayquaza - 14,292
Ninetales - 13,051
Charmander - 13,048
Eevee - 12,646
Lugia - 12,607
Gengar - 12,109
Porygon - 10,733
Nidoking - 10,360
Reshiram - 9,452
Ho-Oh - 9,344
Umbreon - 9,251
Celebi - 8,882
Entei - 8,819
Hitmonchan - 8,448
Poliwrath - 8,382
Espeon - 8,243
Jolteon - 8,166
Flareon - 8,115
Clefairy - 7,946
Charmeleon - 7,709
Typhlosion - 7,691
Vaporeon - 7,671
Tyranitar - 7,665
Vileplume - 7,562
Chansey - 7,405
Squirtle - 7,388
Kabutops - 7,067
Magikarp - 6,942
Arcanine - 6,810
Scyther - 6,553
Raikou - 6,023
Suicune - 5,987
Pidgeot - 5,805
Electrode - 5,756
Aerodactyl - 5,749
Lapras - 5,708
Meganium - 5,566
Electabuzz - 5,512
Hypno - 5,424
Bulbasaur - 5,360
Clefable - 4,994
Ditto - 4,950
Haunter - 4,866
Houndoom - 4,841
Steelix - 4,802
Gardevoir - 4,710
Vulpix - 4,673
Feraligatr - 4,638
Jirachi - 4,575
Muk - 4,550
Ampharos - 4,487
Scizor - 4,390
Wartortle - 4,346
Meowth - 4,265
Dragonair - 4,261
Latios - 4,240
Psyduck - 4,190
Dugtrio - 4,098
Persian - 4,068
Kangaskhan - 3,959
Nidoqueen - 3,958
Slowbro - 3,950
Ivysaur - 3,778
Darkrai - 3,649
Pichu - 3,610
Magnemite - 3,587
Groudon - 3,582
Arceus - 3,555
Kingdra - 3,536
Lucario - 3,534
Beedrill - 3,531
Mr. Mime - 3,515
Arbok - 3,475
Wigglytuff - 3,432
Kyogre - 3,350
Latias - 3,335
Zekrom - 3,256
Dialga - 3,249
Abra - 3,163
Sylveon - 3,159
Weezing - 3,129
Nidoran - 3,118
Deoxys - 3,109
Hitmonlee - 3,082
* As mentioned previously, their search index has been broken for a few months now and does not include some of the sets. I’m having to hardcode both the 2021 McDonald’s set and the Shining Fates set as neither appear currently when searching for “pokemon”. This means there will be some sets I’m unaware of, making the total numbers very likely higher than what I’ve noted above.
