Is FANATICS in over their head?

[ohio_mba]

CGC is basically a pre-grading service. It's an affordable and quicker way to have someone take a look at your card and give you a better idea of whether or not it has a chance at a PSA 10. Much better than just blindly sending cards to PSA and waiting three months.

PSA needs to really fix their pricing and turnaround times. If they could at least fix their turnaround times I could probably overlook some of the pricing. PSA needs to open up more grading hubs across the country. I've been saying it forever and I will die on that hill.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by ohio_mba

CGC is basically a pre-grading service. It's an affordable and quicker way to have someone take a look at your card and give you a better idea of whether or not it has a chance at a PSA 10. Much better than just blindly sending cards to PSA and waiting three months.

PSA needs to really fix their pricing and turnaround times. If they could at least fix their turnaround times I could probably overlook some of the pricing. PSA needs open up more grading hubs across the country. I've been saying it forever and I will die on that hill.

They graded over 1.3M cards last month. The most ever. Is there room for improvement? Always. More grading locations come at tremendous cost and add no value until your other locations are running at max capacity.

[ohio_mba]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

They graded over 1.3M cards last month. The most ever. Is there room for improvement? Always. More grading locations come at tremendous cost and add no value until your other locations are running at max capacity.

That's because PSA was at the National and Fanatics Fest. Naturally the grading count is going to be on the higher side for August. My gripe with PSA is not their demand, they are top-dog for a reason.

Fix the turnaround times. I don't care how they do it, just fix it. Just imagine how much volume they would do if they corrected that.

[JRX]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

They graded over 1.3M cards last month. The most ever. Is there room for improvement? Always. More grading locations come at tremendous cost and add no value until your other locations are running at max capacity.

I can't believe there were 1.3M cards worth grading.

[bub838]

Originally Posted by JRX

I can't believe there were 1.3M cards worth grading.

There isn't!

[hammerva]

They literally have a complete monopoly over the jerseys and other materials of almost every major sports league in the US. And probably internationally. This stuff is small potatoes to them

I would be more worried about being in a suit involving Marvin Harrison and son than some goofballs worried about a grading service

[bub838]

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-announc..._article-share

...changes are in the works for overall home and road team uniforms beginning next season and will include pant customization, increasing the sizing of the lettering and returning to previously used materials that the players requested.

ASG jerseys also going back to home/away team jerseys

[SliderCutter14]

Originally Posted by bub838

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-announc..._article-share



ASG jerseys also going back to home/away team jerseys

About time the ASG goes back to actual team jerseys.
I'm going to miss the Nike see-thru jersey, amusing to have theories of a player doing hockey squat training based on their stance and swing in the batters box... still hoping someone adopts the JT Snow batting style

[SaveMeTheGum]

It's not that they are incompetent. It's just that they don't care.

[mfw13]

Originally Posted by JRX

I can't believe there were 1.3M cards worth grading.

Bingo....WAAAAAAY too many modern cards getting graded.

Nobody cares (or is going to pay a premium) for 99% of modern cards even if they do gem.

Pretty anything #/d to 25 or less is so scarce that people are going to pay up for them no matter what the condition.

[MoreToppsPlease]

Originally Posted by mfw13

Bingo....WAAAAAAY too many modern cards getting graded.

Nobody cares (or is going to pay a premium) for 99% of modern cards even if they do gem.

Pretty anything #/d to 25 or less is so scarce that people are going to pay up for them no matter what the condition.

Nobody can argue here.

When people will be grading cards with their phone apps in 3-5 years, any premium grading might have given will have been long lost, and little kids will be laughing about how corrupt the graded card market really was and how silly and desperate so many people once were.

[ThoseBackPages]

HAHAHAHA

[seanbros55]

Watching tonight’s WS game reminded me of this story from the beginning of the season.

I’m gonna miss these sweaty cheapazz jerseys! We can absolutely trust Crapnatics to fix this problem, right? Don’t they have a proven track record of doing the right thing?

[mfw13]

So....given that we've yet to see the 2025 Flagship design, and the fact that fall products like HHN and Archives are no longer being released in the correct calendar year, I'm starting to wonder if Fanatics is going to collapse under the weight of its own ineptitude once they also get the NBA and NFL licenses from Panini.

If they can't get marketing materials and products out the door in a timely fashion now, how bad are things going to get when they have three times as many products to release???

Are we going to start seeing 2025 products being released in 2027?

[ThoseBackPages]

Originally Posted by mfw13

So....given that we've yet to see the 2025 Flagship design, and the fact that fall products like HHN and Archives are no longer being released in the correct calendar year, I'm starting to wonder if Fanatics is going to collapse under the weight of its own ineptitude once they also get the NBA and NFL licenses from Panini.

If they can't get marketing materials and products out the door in a timely fashion now, how bad are things going to get when they have three times as many products to release???

Are we going to start seeing 2025 products being released in 2027?

there is no hurry. the addicts will buy it regardless of when it releases

[bub838]

Merry Christmas

https://x.com/darkostatenews/status/...BCCSifQY-QIIrQ

[Cracktoast]

Originally Posted by mfw13

So....given that we've yet to see the 2025 Flagship design, and the fact that fall products like HHN and Archives are no longer being released in the correct calendar year, I'm starting to wonder if Fanatics is going to collapse under the weight of its own ineptitude once they also get the NBA and NFL licenses from Panini.

If they can't get marketing materials and products out the door in a timely fashion now, how bad are things going to get when they have three times as many products to release???

Are we going to start seeing 2025 products being released in 2027?

Funny how Football, Basketball and Hockey have all released at least a year behind the current season for at least the last decade and nobody cared but now Fanatics follows suit and they are bumbling idiots who don't know how to run a business.

[KhalDrogo]

Originally Posted by Cracktoast

Funny how Football, Basketball and Hockey have all released at least a year behind the current season for at least the last decade and nobody cared but now Fanatics follows suit and they are bumbling idiots who don't know how to run a business.

Baseball is filled with real collectors as opposed to the degenerates who collect the other sports.

[mc1]

Originally Posted by Cracktoast

Funny how Football, Basketball and Hockey have all released at least a year behind the current season for at least the last decade and nobody cared but now Fanatics follows suit and they are bumbling idiots who don't know how to run a business.

This is simply not true. All products for all sports have been severely delayed for 3-4 years now. Claiming it has been the norm for 10 years is a lie.

[fabiani12333]

I'm pretty sure Fanatics is deliberately stretching out the baseball releases now so that they release year-round, as opposed to seasonal. They own the printer, after all.

[thenightman]

According to Fanatics they made $4.1 billion last year on sports card collectibles. That's a 4x increase from when they bought Topps. Time will tell if this is a gain based on a successful short term cash grab, or a successful long term growth strategy.

https://www.sportico.com/business/fi...se-1234824898/

Check around paragraph 9.

[YayNJ]

Interesting, considering that nearly every long-medium term collector I know is backing off the hobby. Who on earth is buying cases anymore?

[bub838]

Originally Posted by YayNJ

Interesting, considering that nearly every long-medium term collector I know is backing off the hobby. Who on earth is buying cases anymore?

Breakers

[DaryanLenz]

Originally Posted by YayNJ

Interesting, considering that nearly every long-medium term collector I know is backing off the hobby. Who on earth is buying cases anymore?

QFT. I don’t know anyone with a time horizon over 30 days ripping wax/boxes any longer. I used to rip 20K/year for kicks but the value proposition is so diluted it’s no longer worth it. I always said I would pay 50% for the fun and =50% for the ROI but we are now talking -90% expected rate of return on most boxes and that’s just not happening.

[anusinha]

Originally Posted by thenightman

According to Fanatics they made $4.1 billion last year on sports card collectibles. That's a 4x increase from when they bought Topps. Time will tell if this is a gain based on a successful short term cash grab, or a successful long term growth strategy.

https://www.sportico.com/business/fi...se-1234824898/

Check around paragraph 9.

"Fanatics Collectibles, the trading card unit, brought in about $1.6 billion"

Most of the revenue is in their crappy clothes and junk