PSA offices - Newport Beach vs. Santa Ana

thehallmark

Does anyone know if there are graders at both the Newport Beach location as well as the Santa Ana location? Or do packages sent to one get transported to the other?

giantsfan20

The office is in Santa Ana. Only the post office box is Newport Beach sound better to impress the public etc NB is a very high class area of orange county.

cjaccardi

Does aNyone know how many graders there are there , who they are, how long have they been grading, were they hired to become graders or are they experienced. How are they qualified to become experts. And how much do I have to pay them to give me 10s all day long

dbcoin

From the CLCT annual 10K filing with the SEC:

Collectibles Experts

As of June 30, 2013, we employed 42 experts in our authentication and grading operations, who have from 5 to 54 years, and an overall average of 28 years, of experience. Our experts include individuals that either (i) had previously been collectibles dealers or were recognized as experts in the markets we serve, or (ii) have been trained by us in our authentication and grading methodologies and procedures, and/or had gained authentication and grading experience at competing authentication and grading companies. However, talented collectibles authentication and grading experts are in short supply, and there is considerable competition among collectibles authentication and grading companies for their services. As a result, we focus on training young authenticators and graders who we believe have the skills or knowledge base to become collectibles experts. We also sometimes contract with outside experts, usually collectibles dealers, to assist us with special grading issues or to enable us to address short-term increases in authentication and grading orders.

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PSA Trading Card and Authentication and Grading Services . Leveraging the credibility and using the methodologies that we had established with PCGS in the coin market, in 1991 we launched Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), which instituted a similar authentication and grading system for trading cards. Our independent trading card experts certify the authenticity of and assign quality grades to trading cards using a numeric system with a scale from 1-to-10 that we developed, together with an adjectival system to describe their condition. At June 30, 2013, we employed 15 experts who have an average of 27 years of experience in the collectible trading card market. We believe that our authentication and grading services have removed barriers that were created by the historical seller-biased grading process and, thereby, have improved the overall marketability of and facilitated commerce in trading cards, including over the Internet and at telephonic sports memorabilia auctions.

pdub1819

+ Santa Ana and Newport Beach are neighboring cities.