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Old 08-11-2022, 07:15 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by mfw13 View Post
You can't "increase capacity exponentially" and still maintain product quality.

There just aren't that many people out there who can consistently grade cards accurately....and certainly not very many who want to do it 40 hours a week for whatever menial wages PSA offers.
I think it is less about massive capacity increases. That is probably done and flatlined. It is more about moving current capacity into new orders. The 800K per month of back log being graded needs to be refilled with current stuff. I am expecting them to still top out around 1 million per month (still an absolute crap ton) but it will be more and more of orders taken in at that National for example.

I am still bearish on PSA being able to keep 1 million a month going honestly. After all of the pent up demand is cycled through, I expect a dip in submissions. May take a 8 months to a year to get there. They will need to lower prices to keep demand high. I am still in the belief that grading will get real cheap again across all the graders. There is only so much stuff worth sending in and I don't see registry set collectors bringing in the submissions.
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