Getting ready to make my first submission but...

helionaut

I have slowly been accumulating various and sundry cards for my first submission to PSA and started to look at their rates, categories and turnaround times, and I am pretty confused. I've got all kinds of cards, but not many of any one particular kind, that I'd like to send in this time, so I was hoping the people that have experience in this can help. I've got 3 or 4 T-206s, two 71 Topps Greatest Moments, several 55 Bowmans, a 1951 Bowman, and the rest are regular size cards from various years from 1957 to 2002, from 3 sports and a non-sports set. Looking at their price list, it says I must submit at least 25 Tall Boy cards, 25 cards from 1953 and earlier, 50 cards from 1954-1959, and 50 cards from 1960-1971. I don't have that many of any category. It looks like either I can't send in my 4 1957 Topps cards until I get 46 more, or maybe I can send them all in under the "Economy" level of service, which doesn't have any minimum listed. Which is it?

I've read many posts over the past couple years about people submitting their stuff with multiple order sheets in one box, others saying that's wrong and it should be separate submissions, all kinds of things. Can I send in cards after 1972 as "Modern" in the same package as earlier cards under "Economy", maybe with a different submission sheet, or do I have to submit separately? And do "Economy" and "Modern" mean any cards including Tallboy-type cards and T-206s? I can't even look at the submission sheet until I pay the cover charge. And even then, I'm supposed to get free grades. Can I put them on that first submission, or does that have to be made separately? And if I'm supposed to get free gradings owning to my 75% completion of a registry set, can they be put on either of those submissions? And what about return postage/insurance fees? What do they run?

Now, I'm a pretty smart guy, but this all seems too complicated for what it is. On the bright side, I've decided to open the two-thirds of a 1975 Topps Rack Pack I got a couple years ago to see if I can make a contribution to my own set. That'll be fun.

wolfbear

Each different type of submission must be on its own separate invoice,
but any number of submissions can be sent together to PSA in the same box.

You'll have to pay a separate return shipping charge for each invoice.
Return shipping depends on the value of the cards,
but a ballpark figure is 20 to 40 cents each for commons, and 1.00 to 3.00 each for stars.

Free grades for a Registry Set reaching a certain level must be put on its own invoice.
Free grades for joining PSA must be put on its own invoice.
Also, you have to pay separate return shipping for each of the above two services.

Don't know about the odd-sized cards ...

purelyPSA

Suppose you have some stuff like MSA discs, which are larger than regular cards. Do you have to submit them differently? Or smaller stuff like the Slurpee discs. Does all this have to be submitted on a separate submission sheet?

jackstraw

you can not mix the tall boys (or anything that goes into them ,msa discs) with an order that goes into the smaller holder. that would be a shipping nightmare for psa and you.