The Good Ole' Days of Lightening Fast Turnaround Times
gemint
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I was going through my old submissions for tax purposes. I came across a bulk order from 2012 for 538 cards that was received on 5/3 and shipped back on 5/11. I had another bulk order for 500 cards received on the same day and shipped back to me a week after the one above. Do you think we'll ever see those turnaround times again? Or $5 grading fees? Probably not!
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I looked back at some of my old orders too. Man was I spoiled! LOL
You can duplicate that good ol 10 day turnaround time that you had with 500 cards by sending just 17 cards Express, both cost $2500
Hahahaha. Those were the days alright. How about 48 hour turnaround for a $6 monthly special AND good grades? Somebody get the time machine ready...
TOTAL ITEMS
46
DATE RECEIVED
10/21/2013
DATE SHIPPED
10/23/2013
Line # Item # Cert # Grade Description Type
1 1 22133482 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1977 Topps 480 Carl Yastrzemski Card
2 1 22133483 MINT 9 1977 Topps 120 Rod Carew Card
3 1 22133484 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1977 Topps 450 Pete Rose Card
4 1 22133485 MINT 9 1975 Topps 597 Winston Llenas Card
5 1 22133486 MINT 9 1975 Topps 555 Al Oliver Card
6 1 22133487 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1975 Topps 601 Juan Beniquez Card
7 1 22133488 MINT 9 1975 Topps 560 Tony Perez Card
8 1 22133489 MINT 9 1975 Topps 197 1959-MVP's Nellie Fox/Ernie Banks Card
9 1 22133490 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1975 Topps 195 1957-MVP's Mickey Mantle/Hank Aaron Card
10 1 22133491 NEAR MINT 7 1973 Topps 130 Pete Rose Card
11 1 22133492 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1973 Topps 305 Willie Mays Card
11 2 22133493 MINT 9 1973 Topps 305 Willie Mays Card
12 1 22133494 NEAR MINT-MINT+ 8.5 1973 Topps 100 Hank Aaron Card
13 1 22133495 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1973 Topps 180 Fergie Jenkins Card
14 1 22133496 NEAR MINT 7 1967 Topps 5 Whitey Ford Card
15 1 22133497 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1967 Topps 70 Ron Santo Card
16 1 22133498 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1967 Topps 100 Frank Robinson Card
17 1 22133499 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1967 Topps 369 Catfish Hunter Card
18 1 22133500 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1967 Topps 210 Bob Gibson Card
19 1 22133501 NEAR MINT 7 1967 Topps 215 Ernie Banks Card
20 1 22133502 NEAR MINT 7 1967 Topps 93 Yankees Rookies S.Bahnsen/B.Murcer Card
21 1 22133503 MINT 9 1967 Topps 340 Joe Pepitone Card
22 1 22133504 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1967 Topps 236 NL Pitching Leaders Card
23 1 22133505 NEAR MINT 7 1967 Topps 200 Willie Mays Card
24 1 22133506 NEAR MINT 7 1967 Topps 1 the Champs Frank Robinson/Hank Bauer/Brooks Robinson Card
25 1 22133507 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1957 Topps 390 Reno Bertoia Card
26 1 22133508 NEAR MINT 7 1957 Topps 300 Mike Garcia Card
27 1 22133509 VERY GOOD-EXCELLENT 4 1969 Topps Deckle Edge 22 Joe Foy Card
28 1 22133510 NEAR MINT 7 1969 Topps Deckle Edge 11 Jim Wynn Card
29 1 22133511 MINT 9 1979 Topps 115 Nolan Ryan Card
30 1 22133512 NEAR MINT 7 1979 O-Pee-Chee 51 Nolan Ryan Card
31 1 22133513 EXCELLENT-MINT 6 1980 Topps 580 Nolan Ryan Card
32 1 22133514 GEM MINT 10 1982 Fleer 229 Nolan Ryan Card
33 1 22133515 MINT 9 1984 Topps 470 Nolan Ryan Card
34 1 22133516 MINT 9 1982 Topps 452 Lee Smith Card
35 1 22133517 MINT 9 1982 Topps 21 Orioles Future Stars Bonner/Ripken/Schneider Card
36 1 22133518 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1982 Topps 90 Nolan Ryan Card
37 1 22133519 NEAR MINT-MINT 8 1986 Topps 7 Walter Payton Card
38 1 22133520 MINT 9 1988 Fleer 129 Charles Barkley All-Star Card
39 1 22133521 MINT 9 1988 Fleer 123 Magic Johnson All-Star Card
40 1 22133522 MINT 9 1979 Topps Wacky Packs Reissue 55 Bit-O-Money Card
41 1 22133523 MINT 9 ST 1979 Topps Wacky Packs Reissue 31 Bustedfinger Card
42 1 22133524 GEM MINT 10 1979 Topps Wacky Packs Reissue 56 Blisterine Card
43 1 22133525 MINT 9 1979 Topps Wacky Packs Reissue 36 Armor Hot Dogs Card
44 1 22133526 MINT 9 1979 Topps Wacky Packs Reissue 12 Ultra Blight Card
45 1 22133527 MINT 9 1979 Topps Wacky Packs Reissue 62 My T Fink Card
Bosox1976
At some point in 2022 or 2023, PSA's backlog will be processed and shipped out the door. What is a realistic return time for bulk submissions at that point? Who knows, but we will never see the gold old days of days or weeks for a bulk return. COVID was a game changer for sure.
When the flipperbois head into another asset class then it will be close to that again. Nothing lasts forever
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I still see people out there saying this whole backlog wasn’t caused by the flippers. They screwed up our hobby.
But the earth and sky.
Except in a few million years when the sun super novas and wipes out the whole planet. 😀
So what you're saying is that it slips away and all your money wont another minute buy.
I do think we'll get to a point where PSA is starved for submissions again. There was a lot of dumb money that entered the hobby last year. Some of that will disappear as we're seeing on the drops in prices of high population modern cards. With PSA's expanded capacity to grade cards, they need a hungry collector base submitting lots of cards to keep it filled. It will certainly take time to work through pent up demand of what they still have on backlog plus what collectors and dealers have been hoarding since the shut down. But I think it will eventually arrive at that day where they need more submissions. Now, whether the grading standards will return to normalcy is another question and I don't have a guess on that.
I wouldn't expect it for quite awhile. Nat Turner says they can process 40,000 cards a day. When they shut down, they were getting 100,000 per day and had one day where they got 660,000 cards for grading.