Ever calculate total amount of cards and $ spent with PSA over the years?

EagleEyeKid

So I had some time and thought I'd amuse myself. My subscription/membership only shows as far back as 2002, but I started submitting since 1998 during the McGwire and Sosa race. I added all the cards up to 2002 which allowed me and got 5,084 subbed. Not counting the 4 yrs not listed and piggybacking with others it's probably close to 7K. Taking an average of $6 per card, that's 43K spent just on submissions. Wth?

Curious to see the numbers of others.

handyman

Sounds crazy when you total it up.
So thats about 300 a month from you.
Another fun number is watching how many cards PSA grades a day. They seem to do 10,000 a day. Yesterday they were 24,166,280 and today they are 24,176,839.
So about 250,000 cards a month.
so your 50 cards a month average comes to .0002% of PSAs business. I wonder what your stock portfolio would look like if you bought there stock every month for 300.00 a month from 2002 and what the 43,000 would be worth today. Is that possible to figure out as well?
250,000 cards a month is an impressive number. What does SGC and BGS grade in a year?

itzagoner

since late 2004 through late 2013, a total of 16744 cards submitted. using a simple average calculation of $5 per card, that's well over 80K, or a rough average of 9K+ per annum. pretty sure i've spent more than that, including membership fees, freight costs, and some non-bulk subs which cost a little more, maybe around 90K total to PSA.

seebelow

i don't even want to begin thinking about it. Shudder. But i do think its been worth it in total value of my cards.

But in their total number of cards...wow. How many graders are grading each day?

Grimster

<< <i>... I wonder what your stock portfolio would look like if you bought there stock every month for 300.00 a month from 2002 and what the 43,000 would be worth today. Is that possible to figure out as well?
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Not sure if there is an easy online calculator or not for that, but I did find this one :

http://www.buyupside.com/stockreturnpurchasedate/stockreturnpurchasedateinput.php

Using that and just putting in January 2, 2002 through today...


Stock Return Calculator Results for CLCT
Start date:
Jan-02-2002
Start price
$2.82
End date:
Mar-23-2015
End price
$22.55
Number daily prices
3328
Minimum price occurred on
Mar-10-2003
Minimum price
$1.03
Maximum price occurred on
Nov-04-2014
Maximum price
$24.57
Total gain or loss (Start date to End date)
699.65%
Annualized gain or loss (Start date to End date)
17.02%
Total dollar value on End date of a $10,000 purchase made on Start date
$79,965


I hate looking at the stock market history data. Hindsight is incredibly sad, haha. sooooo many missed opportunities staring at you in the face

magellan

I haven't spent thousands on submissions but sure have spent thousands on psa graded cards & submissions.
I have a record of all I spent but don't dare tally it .