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Old 10-13-2025, 05:44 PM   #24501
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Finally the first progress update. Not much, just the Value Max order with the 1 card finished the nebulous "Order Prep" and has now moved to Research & ID. After a month, it's good to know that one card is now "Prepped".

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3 orders sent in…

Order Type: Value (1979 and older)
# of cards: 4
Order shipped: 9/9/25
Order delivered: 9/12/25
Order received per PSA: 9/15/25
Order Prep:
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Grades:
Shipped:

Order Type: Value Bulk (1980-present)
# of cards: 20
Order shipped: 9/9/25
Order delivered: 9/12/25
Order received per PSA: 9/15/25
Order Prep:
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Grades:
Shipped:

Order Type: Value Max
# of cards: 1
Order shipped: 9/9/25
Order delivered: 9/12/25
Order received per PSA: 9/15/25
Order Prep: 10/13/25
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Grades:
Shipped:
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Old 10-13-2025, 06:55 PM   #24502
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Second of four baseball only orders popped. 19 days in QC, give or take a day. Much better results (15/20 gems), sapphire stuff went 5/5 and the biggest card in the order gemmed, so that helped.

Two remaining orders have been in QC for 17 and 11 days respectively. All four orders had estimated completion dates of 10/27.

Still waiting for the first baseball order to actually ship. I accepted one PSA offer on that order, none on this one. Curious to see if that delays shipping

Type: Value Bulk 1980+ (#1)
# of cards: 20 (all basketball)
Estimated Completion Date: 10/27/25
Shipped to PSA: 7/7/25
Delivered: 7/9/25
Order Prep: 7/9/25
Research & ID: 7/25/25
Grading: 8/30/25
Assembly: 9/8/25
QA Checks: 9/9/25
Grades Ready: 9/22/25
Shipped: 9/26/25
Delivered: 9/29/25

Type: Value Bulk 1980+ (#2)
# of cards: 20 (all baseball)
Estimated Completion Date: 10/27/25
Shipped to PSA: 7/7/25
Delivered: 7/9/25
Order Prep: 7/9/25
Research & ID: 7/25/25
Grading: 9/4/25
Assembly: 9/15/25
QA Checks: 9/16/25
Grades Ready: 10/10/25
Shipped:
Delivered:

Type: Value Bulk 1980+ (#3)
# of cards: 20 (all baseball)
Estimated Completion Date: 10/27/25
Shipped to PSA: 7/7/25
Delivered: 7/9/25
Order Prep: 7/9/25
Research & ID: 7/25/25
Grading: 9/4/25
Assembly: 9/15/25
QA Checks: 10/2/25
Grades Ready:
Shipped:
Delivered:

Type: Value Bulk 1980+ (#4)
# of cards: 20 (all baseball)
Estimated Completion Date: 10/27/25
Shipped to PSA: 7/7/25
Delivered: 7/9/25
Order Prep: 7/9/25
Research & ID: 7/25/25
Grading: 9/4/25
Assembly: 9/18/25
QA Checks: 9/24/25
Grades Ready: 10/13/25
Shipped:
Delivered:

Type: Value Bulk 1980+ (#5)
# of cards: 20 (all baseball)
Estimated Completion Date: 10/27/25
Shipped to PSA: 7/7/25
Delivered: 7/9/25
Order Prep: 7/9/25
Research & ID: 7/25/25
Grading: 9/8/25
Assembly:9/15/25
QA Checks: 9/26/25
Grades Ready:
Shipped:
Delivered:
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Old 10-14-2025, 10:31 AM   #24503
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Type: Value Bulk 1980+
# of cards: 41
Estimated Completion Date: 11/25/25
Delivered: 8/1/2025
Order Prep: 8/1/2025
Research & ID: 8/25/2025
Grading: 9/22/2025
Assembly: 10/7/2025

Type: Value Bulk 1980+
# of cards: 47
Estimated Completion Date:
Delivered: 9/16/2025

Type: Value Max
# of cards: 3
Estimated Completion Date:
Delivered: 9/16/2025

Type: Value Bulk
# of cards: 26
Estimated Completion Date: 1/19/2026
Delivered: 10/7/2025
Order Prep: 10/14/2025

Type: Value Bulk
# of cards: 23
Estimated Completion Date: 1/19/2026
Delivered: 10/7/2025
Order Prep: 10/14/2025

Type: Value Bulk
# of cards: 20
Estimated Completion Date: 1/19/2026
Delivered: 10/7/2025
Order Prep: 10/14/2025

Type: Regular
# of cards: 1
Estimated Completion Date: 11/3/2025
Delivered: 10/7/2025
Order Prep: 10/10/2025
Grading 10/13/2025

The memo here is to make sure you include bulk orders with quicker service orders. They get checked in quicker.

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Old 10-14-2025, 01:45 PM   #24504
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I know this isn't the best place for this question but:

When I go to orders and it shows the whole list of all orders sometimes it reads "assembly" but when I click the specific order it says "QA Checks"

Then today it says "QA checks" in both spots.

Is that just a glitch or does it signify something?
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Old 10-14-2025, 02:07 PM   #24505
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At what stage would PSA send out up charge emails?
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Old 10-14-2025, 03:30 PM   #24506
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At what stage would PSA send out up charge emails?
Got mine at QA Checks.
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Old 10-14-2025, 04:04 PM   #24507
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Type: TCG Bulk Value
# of cards: 21
Received per PSA: 9/30
Order Prep:
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
Green Check Assembly:
Grades Ready:
QA Check:
Complete:


Type: TCG Value Plus
# of cards: 5
Received per PSA: 9/30
Order Prep:
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
Green Check Assembly:
Grades Ready:
QA Check:
Complete:
Wow these two orders including a value plus have been stuck at received for two weeks
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Old 10-14-2025, 05:03 PM   #24508
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Wow these two orders including a value plus have been stuck at received for two weeks
I have 2 orders that have been stuck at received for a month.

Type: Value Bulk 1980+
# of cards: 47
Estimated Completion Date:
Delivered: 9/16/2025

Type: Value Max
# of cards: 3
Estimated Completion Date:
Delivered: 9/16/2025
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Old 10-14-2025, 07:08 PM   #24509
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Got mine at QA Checks.
All my orders are stuck in QA Checks...upcharge coming soon...
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Old 10-14-2025, 07:09 PM   #24510
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I know this isn't the best place for this question but:

When I go to orders and it shows the whole list of all orders sometimes it reads "assembly" but when I click the specific order it says "QA Checks"

Then today it says "QA checks" in both spots.

Is that just a glitch or does it signify something?
All mine say "assembly" but when you click in, it says QA Checks...
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All mine say "assembly" but when you click in, it says QA Checks...
Mine were but now all say QA checks across the board.
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Mine were but now all say QA checks across the board.
Yeah, I think that's my next step with them.
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Old 10-14-2025, 11:27 PM   #24513
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Order popped, 43 offers, accepted 23 of them, much better. Recorded offers and comp lookup so hoping to upload Thursday.

Some of the offers if you have dupes, if you accept one or two offers it will withdrawl the offer for the other and/or lower it. Almost as if buyers who have offers for a card have a quantify limit and once that qty limit is reached it withdraws any outstanding offers, which makes sense.
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Old 10-15-2025, 06:53 AM   #24514
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I have 2 orders that have been stuck at received for a month.

Type: Value Bulk 1980+
# of cards: 47
Estimated Completion Date:
Delivered: 9/16/2025

Type: Value Max
# of cards: 3
Estimated Completion Date:
Delivered: 9/16/2025
Dang.. have you tried reaching out?
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Old 10-15-2025, 09:39 AM   #24515
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Second progress update. The Value Max order with the 1 card finished “Prep” and has now moved to “Assembly”.

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3 orders sent in…

Order Type: Value (1979 and older)
# of cards: 4
Order shipped: 9/9/25
Order delivered: 9/12/25
Order received per PSA: 9/15/25
Order Prep:
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Grades:
Shipped:

Order Type: Value Bulk (1980-present)
# of cards: 20
Order shipped: 9/9/25
Order delivered: 9/12/25
Order received per PSA: 9/15/25
Order Prep:
Research & ID:
Grading:
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Grades:
Shipped:

Order Type: Value Max
# of cards: 1
Order shipped: 9/9/25
Order delivered: 9/12/25
Order received per PSA: 9/15/25
Order Prep: 10/13/25
Research & ID: skipped, I guess since it was pretty obvious.
Grading: 10/14/25
Assembly: 10/15/25
QA1:
QA2:
Grades:
Shipped:
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Old 10-15-2025, 01:23 PM   #24516
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Second progress update. The Value Max order with the 1 card finished “Prep” and has now moved to “Assembly”.
What is your ETA? i have a 2 card value max and was received on 9/16 and finally was prepped and pushed to grading this morning. My ETA is showing 11/11
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Old 10-15-2025, 01:33 PM   #24517
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FYI, had a regular order ship today. Order was under the 10 day estimate, not the current 15 day estimate. Grades received 10/14, were due 10/8. Small sample size, but they’re running behind.
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Old 10-15-2025, 02:07 PM   #24518
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Type: TCG Bulk
Estimated Completion Date: 12/1
# of cards: 28
Shipped to PSA: 8/25
Delivered: 8/27
Received PSA: 8/27
Order Prep: 8/30
Research & ID: 8/30
Grading: 10/6
Assembly: 10/15
QA Checks:
Grades Ready:
Shipped:

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Old 10-15-2025, 02:15 PM   #24519
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Wow these two orders including a value plus have been stuck at received for two weeks

Have one Value Plus that’s been there a month and still in Order Prep. Cannot imagine the backlog


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Old 10-15-2025, 04:25 PM   #24520
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Have one Value Plus that’s been there a month and still in Order Prep. Cannot imagine the backlog


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It is much bigger than they make out and when Topps releases it will get worse. Price increase on sports just in time. Lol
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It is much bigger than they make out and when Topps releases it will get worse. Price increase on sports just in time. Lol
Imagine all those Cooper Flagg base RC's being graded....it's just gonna get worse!
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Old 10-15-2025, 10:27 PM   #24522
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Imagine all those Cooper Flagg base RC's being graded....it's just gonna get worse!
Topps basketball, Pokemon, Topps Football.. it’s going to get really bad.
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Topps basketball, Pokemon, Topps Football.. it’s going to get really bad.
It’s all good, PSA has it figured out on how to fix that. They’ll just, checks notes, raise prices again.
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I forgot to stick the barcode on a TCG order. Insured and signed for two weeks ago, but yet to be received.....
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Old 10-16-2025, 02:24 PM   #24525
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Got my first ever upcharge email today. Deservedly based on what the card was that gemmed and the only sale of it (it was sub $499 raw when I sent it). Got upgraded all the way to the $149.99 level based on the only sale ($2,975).

I got smoked on the order as a whole (6/20 gems), but at least three of the top four/five cards in the order gemmed.

They removed the "problem order status from the order page, and it says grades ready and the status is "completing," but the grades aren't there and no PSA offers yet.

They sent all the grades over when they sent the upcharge email, so I know what it is, just curious the offers on the two cards that got upcharged
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