It's a vicious cycle isn't it.
Big breakers/investors submit more and more cards for grading these days, hundreds if not thousands of cards a year. Huge bulks of 100-200-300+ cards. Plus the hobby seems to be growing as a whole so more and more people are getting into the game all the time. A new guy here, another guy there, each starting to send orders. Maybe some huge orders, maybe some small orders, but it's adding up quick.
Grading companies start falling behind, maybe rush the actual grading a little more to push more cards through. How long are they really looking at these cards now? 30 seconds or less? Quality of the service suffers and maybe cards get graded a little more favorably. More cards that might be 9's come back 10's because the inventory has to keep turning over as fast as possible and things get missed.
People quickly notice cards are getting better grades and say ''hey, I should crack and resub that big pile of 9s I've got over there, maybe they'll gem this time''. More big bulk orders from people hoping to bump grades piling up on top of the mountain of regular subs they're already swamped in. The same cards being graded two or three times over now. Graders fall even more behind redoing a bunch of their work over again.
''Why are turnaround times are getting longer''
LOL
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