25,000 Sets !!!!!!

jaxxr

As of today there are almost 25,000 PSA registered sets, it is less than 200 short !!!

Quite a number, when PSA started this concept they probably did not realize how much interest there would be. Regardless of any shortcomings or problems, the set registry is here to stay and seems to gain in popularity each year.

It would be interesting to know how many different people actually have registered sets.
The total number is, of course, inflated by master sets, team sets, HOF sets, player sets, Etc. Some collectors have many different sets, a top collector like Jim C. seems to have one of every set possible !

Is the number of separate and unique, individuals or e-mail addresses who have one set or more registered, available from PSA ? Perhaps this information may be found from the website in a manner unfamilar to myself. I would guess a good number would be about 2400 different people participate. Anyone know for sure, or any other estimates ?

jamesgotpoorman

Well I can account for 5 of those sets. I would be neat to know exactly how many collectors are on PSA.

Alfiewt

The registry has come a long way!

Here is the registry page for baseball sets from August 2000!

Here is the standings for 1952 Topps at that time!

jamesgotpoorman

PSA


Neat site to revisit!!!


WOW have we all come a long way....

RipublicaninMass

lol 55 topps none regstered

qualitycards

ALFIEWT - Neat look back at the early days of the registry
just 64 different sets in all 4 sports & misc sports
and no Baseball set from the '60's & up.

Now if you only can find a way to go back to 7 years ago and buy
vintage cards at the 2000 level - let me know!

Boopotts

This kind of brings up an intersting point; what will be the future of the registry? Will it feature an expanded base of player collectors, or an expanded base of set collectors? I suppose it could go both ways, but my gut feeling is that it will go either one way or the other; i.e, we'll start seeing more guys putting together graded '95 Ultra sets or something like that, or more guys putting together basic/master sets of lesser known players (or at least players that don't get as much hobby respect; your Bagwells, Ortiz's, ManRams and so on).

In any event, there's a lot of room to grow. In hockey, for instance, the ONLY player master sets that really get any attention are Howe and Gretzky. And there are a ton of great NBA players that don't really have any dedicated collectors chasing down a master set. Add to this basically every post-1980 set (since none of them, with the notable exception of 1984 Donruss, have any kind of competition on the registry) and it will be fascinating to see where the next generation of collectors decide to take third party grading.

Wabittwax

I can see it going both ways. I don't think there's any slowing down anytime soon in the Registry. As for post-1980, while there isn't much competition, there are buyers for almost anything.

NickM

I just counted through my listings, and realized I have 374 of them. That includes 3 duplicates (Basic and Master sets of the same set - in each of those cases, I built a Basic set over 10% before the Master Set was listed), but no team sets.

And, there are several sets I need to re-register because they haven't had any activity in over a year and dropped off the listings.

Many of my sets have just 1 or 2 cards, although I don't register a player set unless I have at least 3 cards of the player.

Anyone else even more unfocused?

Nick

Davalillo

Nick,

You have me beat--I have a mere 270 registered.

I should have spent my vacation doing team sets rather than ski--I'll get you next year.

Jim

gregm13

86 - none of which are finished!! If I can ever find that darn Buoniconti rc, I could finish one set.

Regards,

Greg M.

NickM

Jim - just think of the free grades you will acquire that way (16 or 20, depending on the era, on many of your major sets).

I wonder if PSA has ever received a 2000 card submission before that they had to grade for free.

Nick

Cubfan

I can remember when they gave out free gradings to the person that had the 2,500th set.

calleocho

I remember the fav five ....whooo 72's were crazy.

i thought 10,000 or so would be critical mass...i was way off.

probably wont reach the top until 50,000 or so.

truly amazing

koby

How many registry sets do the competitors (Beckett, SGC and GAI) have?

Griffins

1437 for SGC
Probably a dozen or so for GAI, their site is down, but the registry never got running. I put one set up there but it garbled all the data and they never fixed it.

calleocho

im pretty sure they will have up and running by monday

djspann

25000 sets now!


Doug