SGC Grading

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Originally Posted by Scottish Punk

I am an SGC guy, so I am putting this here instead of under PSA news. PSA is opening a location in Boca Raton RIGHT NEXT DOOR to SGC. I remember Peter mentioning that SGC was looking to buy a location next door for expansion. Maybe I am mistaken about that.

https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.co...kets-in-texas/

Either way, I can't see this has being a good thing for SGC. The article states they will operation independently. I would say - For now. To me this signals that Collector's doesn't have any plans to expand SGC.

My theory on why Collector's bought SGC was more about getting qualified vintage graders more than anything. Vintage takes longer to grade. I think some of the longer wait time for SGC is getting them trained the PSA way and having standards aligned a bit more. I can see PSA just taking over the SGC spot to make it a bigger more efficient facility. It will be the primary place to send vintage.

I like SGC and have 100's of slabs, but I am now even more bearish on their future. I think I will hold off on any subs for awhile to see how some of this shakes out.

You may very well be right, but here's a slim possible counterpoint: I've been hoping that SGC would go back to offering a PSA/DNA-like on-card auto grading ever since Collector's purchased SGC. For that to happen, SGC would either have to ship auto grade submissions to PSA and get them back again by mail before finalizing the SGC auto/card grade, OR, SGC/PSA would need to have locations right next to each other in order combine resources and have this feature for SGC.

Sooo, the optimist in me is hoping that they could share resources, and it would all be PSA just poaching SGC. Maybe? *fingers crossed*

For me, I'm an SGC guy too. If SGC dies, then I'm either going to CGC or I'm out of collecting graded cards entirely. Maybe it also helps that I'm from Oakland, and after losing every major sports team, I'm used to situations like the A's where once they left and have such a terrible owner, I can't even watch baseball anymore since MLB let this happen and enabled it, and I don't even miss it. So if Collectors kills SGC, PSA will be saving me thousands of dollars since I'll stop grading and just go back to collecting raw cards. Either way, I win.