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Originally Posted by inaka
They never will. It's for PSA to make even more "free" money on Collectors Club memberships, even when doubling the membership cost from last time.
Since you need to be a member to take advantage of their grading specials, they get to extract an additional $149-$199 per person annually for volume graders.
So PSA needs the standard base cost to be higher to push memberships, and then they can also use these specials when they anticipate future down time to control the flow of orders and backlog.
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I understand all that. I'm just saying that they can simply use math to determine the exact price that would yield the consistent # of cards submitted that can meet what they can do ... It's simple supply/demand that any business can figure out instead of random specials. Even if your point is good enough reasoning, that still wouldn't explain the uniqueness of the specials (only 90's, only a certain time range, etc.). I don't see any point to the uniqueness of the specials again other than to limit their customers from planning out submissions.
It's just a money grab, like you said. They'd rather double their profit from each customer and have half as many customers than charge less but have more customers (as example). And I don't like that strategy and evident from this thread, many people don't. It's a short-sighted strategy that has already hurt them in my opinion. I mean PSA and the market exploded from 2020-2021, and PSA could have definitely rode that wave higher with some key decisions and moves. But they didn't. Not saying PSA is solely responsible for the market downturn, but they surely didn't do much to stop it by turning off customers like myself.