PSA - The early years

RonSportscards · August 16, 2023 1:23AM

Going through my stuff, I came across some PSA items I kept when I first became a member back in the 1996.
Here is a letter they sent, talking about their new service, Minimum Grade.
If the card didn't meet the Min grade, they would call you to explain why.
Can you imagine that today? LOL
PSA did have transparency...at one time.

RonSportscards · August 16, 2023 1:27AM

Also have the first 4 issues of PSA Grading Report "magazine".
I wonder how many of these still exist.
Kinda want to encapsulate them.

Gotta love the PSA Scoreboard on the cover.
7275 cards graded in 1 month. LMAO
What is it today? Half a million? A million?

RonSportscards · August 16, 2023 1:32AM

Lastly, my well worn PSA Sportscard Market Report price guide.
If only you could go back and buy at those prices, knowing what you know today.
(I no longer have the POP Report book they gave to members. I remember that only members could look up the POP reports using that book. Of course, with the internet now, it's widely available.)

perkdog · August 16, 2023 4:11AM

Ahh yes back in the day when wannabe big shots were over spending thousands on "Low Pop" commons nobody ever heard of to build their sets.

craig44 · August 16, 2023 4:31AM

thank you for posting those. i love old hobby periodicals. it is such a tease though. i just get into the article and only have the front page

NGS428 · August 16, 2023 7:33AM

These are fun to look at. Thanks for posting!

2dueces · August 17, 2023 2:42AM

@perkdog said:
Ahh yes back in the day when wannabe big shots were over spending thousands on "Low Pop" commons nobody ever heard of to build their sets.

In all PSA 8? 😂

perkdog · August 17, 2023 4:22AM

@2dueces said:

@perkdog said:
Ahh yes back in the day when wannabe big shots were over spending thousands on "Low Pop" commons nobody ever heard of to build their sets.

In all PSA 8? 😂

Yes my rookie year here I called some guy out for spending and then boasting about winning a 7k PSA 8 common off ebay, I nearly got run out of town on a rail but I got the last laugh when the same card could have been had about a year or so later for less than $400

nam812 · August 17, 2023 6:45PM

@perkdog said:
.......my rookie year here.........

I like that term. My rookie year here was 2007.

PSA - The early years

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