Registy Idea
JJacks
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What would everyone here think if PCGS would offer free gradings for scanning and uploading scans of your entire sets, or at lease large %s of your sets.
Maybe an average size set where all coins are owned and there is a picture of each would win 1 or 2 free gradings (they wouldn't have to be used for that set). Or, you would simply get a free grading per 20 scans shown total, or whatever.
I would like to see PCGS find a way to encourage:
1. More people to list their sets (I hate seeing sets that you can't view!)
2. More people to show scans of their coins (after all, it is about the coins, right!)
What is your opinion?
JJacks
Always buying music cards of artists I like! PSA or raw! Esp want PSA 10s 1991 Musicards Marx, Elton, Bryan Adams, etc. And 92/93 Country Gold AJ, Clint Black, Tim McGraw PSA 10s
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main goal of PCGS is to grade more coins and generate profits. This would:
1) Cost them more money in bandwidth (uploading, viewing pics) and
server storage space.
2) Cost them money for the free gradings.
Would it result in more paid gradings and income? That's hard to say. There
would be some real costs to them, and the net gain/loss would be very difficult
to assess.
Does this idea get my vote? Heck yes!
Thanks for your responses. Here are some of my comments.
1. I don't feel it would cost PCGS a "Substantial" amount of money. Not sure what the server space would cost. Beckett.com in baseball cards actually has a contest where people try upload as many pics as possible in a contest! Remember that every picutre uploaded is a PCGS coin. As far as free gradings go, even if 400 people got 5 free gradings each (and that is probably really pushing it), that would be 2000 coins, or 1/20-1/30 of what they do in a month. After many of the well known Registry people here uploaded a bunch of pics, the free gradings would slow down, but the pictures would stay! Plus, they may get more people to enter coins into the Registry so that they could scan them to get free gradings, and they would start buying PCGS coins to keep their sets going (or that is the idea!).
2. I don't think I am discounting PCGS's interest in the Registry. I have some shares of CLCT, and as stated above, I think overall the amount they would give away would probably be small, but it could create some interest, and give them a much nicer looking Reg then their competitors would have. Certainly PCGS wants the Reg to make them money, but the way to do that is to get alot of people buying and sending coins to PCGS to fill in their sets.
Just my 2 cents on this!
JJacks