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Old 02-03-2026, 03:24 PM   #25201
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Type: Value (1980-Present)
# of cards: 7
Estimated Completion: 03/20/2026
Order Arrived: 11/26/2025
Order Prep: 1/23/2026
Research & ID: 1/23/2026
Grading: 2/2/2026
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Old 02-04-2026, 08:25 AM   #25202
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Order Type: Value Bulk
# of cards: 53
Est. Completion Date: 4/28/2026
Order Delivered: 11/17/2025
Order received per PSA: 11/17/2025 (Arrived - My Orders page)
Research & ID: 12/11/2025
Grading: 12/19/2025
Assembly: 12/30/2025
QA: 1/13/2026
Grades Ready: 2/3/2026
Shipped:

First submission in about 11 months. Went faster than I anticipated based on all the complaints I'd heard about for the last few months.

Ultra Modern baseball, basketball, football.

Gem Mint - 32
Mint - 17
NM-MT - 1
NM - 3
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Old 02-04-2026, 09:27 AM   #25203
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Order Type: Value Bulk
# of cards: 53
Est. Completion Date: 4/28/2026
Order Delivered: 11/17/2025
Order received per PSA: 11/17/2025 (Arrived - My Orders page)
Research & ID: 12/11/2025
Grading: 12/19/2025
Assembly: 12/30/2025
QA: 1/13/2026
Grades Ready: 2/3/2026
Shipped:

First submission in about 11 months. Went faster than I anticipated based on all the complaints I'd heard about for the last few months.

Ultra Modern baseball, basketball, football.

Gem Mint - 32
Mint - 17
NM-MT - 1
NM - 3
Good to hear that your sub seems like it will be returned a lot earlier than the projected date.

I dropped off a sub in-person at a card show in mid-December and has a 14 May estimated completion date. It went into grading status on 13 January so based on your timeline, maybe I can have my sub returned sometime March versus May.
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Old 02-04-2026, 11:26 AM   #25204
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Type: Regular
Estimated Completion Date: 2/11
# of cards: 1
Shipped to PSA: 1/9
Delivered: 1/12
Received PSA: 1/12
Order Prep: 1/12
Research & ID: 1/13
Grading: 1/14
Assembly: 1/29
QA Checks: 1/29
Grades Ready: 2/3
Shipped:
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Old 02-04-2026, 02:24 PM   #25205
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Order Type: Value Bulk
# of cards: 53
Est. Completion Date: 4/28/2026
Order Delivered: 11/17/2025
Order received per PSA: 11/17/2025 (Arrived - My Orders page)
Research & ID: 12/11/2025
Grading: 12/19/2025
Assembly: 12/30/2025
QA: 1/13/2026
Grades Ready: 2/3/2026
Shipped:

First submission in about 11 months. Went faster than I anticipated based on all the complaints I'd heard about for the last few months.

Ultra Modern baseball, basketball, football.

Gem Mint - 32
Mint - 17
NM-MT - 1
NM - 3


You made great time. I have a value bulk order that was shipped on 10/27 and still only in R&I
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Old 02-04-2026, 02:27 PM   #25206
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I sent through someone so don’t have dates of all movements, but here are my current orders:

Type - ship date to PSA - current status

Value bulk - shipped 10/27 - R&I
Value plus - shipped 11/28 - QA2
Value plus - shipped 1/5 - Grading
Value - shipped 1/5 - Assembly
Value plus - shipped 1/23 - grading

Gotta love that my value order jumped my value plus order, and they were both sent on the same day.

For the life of me, I still cannot grasp why they don’t go with a first in first out system. I can’t imagine having a free for all improves their slow times more than a FIFO system
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Old 02-04-2026, 03:27 PM   #25207
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GameStop Submission
Order Type: Value Bulk (75 Business Days)
# of Cards: 10
Submitted in-store 11/3/25
GS Shipped 11/6/25
Arrived PSA 11/14/25
Processing: 1/6/26
Research & ID: 1/13/26
Grading: 1/30/26 (skipped grading and updated straight to assembly)
Assembly: 1/30/26
QA Check : 2/2/26
Graded : 2/3/26
Ready for Pickup:

Got destroyed on the grades sadly. 10 cards and got one 10. Been doing this a long time and I can’t recall a time that I whiffed this badly. Granted 6 of the worst grades were from late 90’s inserts.
10 x 1 (Skubal Gold RC /2021)
9 x 3 (Best is Juan Gonzalez Fleer Brilliants Gold /99
8 x 2
7 x 2
6 x 2


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Old 02-04-2026, 04:05 PM   #25208
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Type: Value 1980 +
# of cards: 16
Estimated Completion Date: 3/17
Delivered: 11/24
Arrived: 11/24
Order Prep: 12/10
Grading: 12/16
Assembly: 12/23
QA Checks: 1/9
Grades Released: 2/4
Shipped:

Type: Regular
# of cards: 6
Estimated Completion Date: 2/18
Delivered: 1/20
Arrived: 1/20
Order Prep: 1/21
Grading: 1/22
Assembly: 2/4
QA Checks:
Grades Released:
Shipped:

Type: Value 1980+
# of cards: 8
Estimated Completion Date: 5/6
Delivered: 1/20
Arrived: 1/20
Order Prep: 1/22
Grading: 1/30
Assembly: 2/4
QA Checks:
Grades Released:
Shipped:

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Old 02-04-2026, 04:16 PM   #25209
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Type: Value (1980-Present)
# of cards: 7
Estimated Completion: 03/20/2026
Order Arrived: 11/26/2025
Order Prep: 1/23/2026
Research & ID: 1/23/2026
Grading: 2/2/2026
Assembly: 2/4/2026
QA Checks:
Grades Ready:
Completed:
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Old 02-04-2026, 06:02 PM   #25210
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Type: Value (1980-Present)
# of cards: 35
Estimated Completion: 4/7/2026
Order Arrived: 11/14/2025
Order Prep: 1/9/2026
Research & ID: 2/2/2026
Grading: 2/4/2026
Assembly:
QA Checks:
Grades Ready:
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Old 02-04-2026, 08:44 PM   #25211
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My 2 card Value Max order which was an in store submission event in Dec with an ECD of 2/4 popped today on 2/4. Good job PSA on this one.
To anyone curious event on 12/17 and went into R&ID in ~ 1 week and 1 week later grading.
Was in grading stage for ~ 1 month.

And now time to pay the man.
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Old 02-04-2026, 10:58 PM   #25212
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First time submitting to PSA!

PSA Grading 101 questions..

  • If I am submitting one card Super Express and the rest Value do I send them in the same package? Any advantage to submitting separately?

  • Do they send the Super Express one back to me separately?

  • Any advice for a rookie submitter?
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Old 02-05-2026, 07:52 AM   #25213
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First time submitting to PSA!

PSA Grading 101 questions..

  • If I am submitting one card Super Express and the rest Value do I send them in the same package? Any advantage to submitting separately?

  • Do they send the Super Express one back to me separately?

  • Any advice for a rookie submitter?

You can send them in the same package but I’ve found that it’s helpful if each service level is in its own box inside. Once you have your 2 separate orders, (make sure they are in their own box and each marked—I used the bar code on the shipping label paper (last page of your receipts package) to slap on each box). Then put both orders’ boxes into 1 main box to ship. Then, use the feature on your PSA order dashboard to “combine orders” and they will give you a new bar code to slap on the outside of your 1 box to be shipped.

They will typically send them back separately—but neither may be even remotely close to the turnaround time range that you expect. Just be sure to watch the status on your “orders” page and do 2 things when it gets close to shipping back: 1. When it hits the last quality control stage, make sure you have the funds to cover the costs in your bank account (they run your card right before they release the results), and 2. Be sure to be home or have a plan for the delivery because it’s always signature-required.
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Old 02-05-2026, 07:54 AM   #25214
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2 submissions popped that were both sent in October. All that wait time to get 9’d and 8 to death. I am over PSA now. I had already begun to send elsewhere. 21 and 23 cards. I split them to avoid that. To go from 65% gem to 25% is ridiculous. I know PSA will continue to dominate the minds and the market of the grading community, but they have become ridiculous.
Gem mint 10
Mint 17
Near Mint 16
VG 1

Waiting for that was not worth it.
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Old 02-05-2026, 09:27 AM   #25215
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had a value order pop last night:
16 cards
5 - 10s
5 - 9s
1 - 8
5 - 7s

this order, like a lot of my orders recently, have been hammered harder on small imperfections then last year. a small whiting is now coming back as 8s and 7s instead of 8s and 9s. combine that with their updated centering standards, and it can be a whirlwind of an order. i dont mind it being harder to get 10s if it was consistent, but it's not so here we are. haha.
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Old 02-05-2026, 09:53 AM   #25216
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There used to be discount codes for $50 and $75 off a first order.

Anyone know of any now?
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Old 02-05-2026, 10:12 AM   #25217
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There used to be discount codes for $50 and $75 off a first order.

Anyone know of any now?
Discount? HAAAHHAHAHAHAAA, youll get your modern 8s and like it.
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Old 02-05-2026, 11:33 AM   #25218
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It's been so long I kind of forgot of it...

TCG Bulk (37 cards)
Arrived: 10/15
Prep: 12/17
QA: 2/5
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Old 02-05-2026, 01:35 PM   #25219
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Anyone know of any now?
IFSPORTS25 for $25 off your first PSA submission
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Old 02-05-2026, 02:45 PM   #25220
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Sent out 4 cards, I'm extremely happy with the turn around time to open the box and get into grading. This has to be my best ever, delivered to grading in 3 days for value plus? I remember people saying their boxes sat unopened for 2+ weeks using value plus. I guess it's gotten better!


Type: Value Plus 25 (even though value plus is 40 business days now?)
# of cards: 4
Estimated Completion: 03/31/2026

Order Arrived: 2/2/2026
Order Prep: 2/4/2026
Research & ID: 2/5/2026
Grading: 2/5/2026
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Old 02-05-2026, 05:10 PM   #25221
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Sent out 4 cards, I'm extremely happy with the turn around time to open the box and get into grading. This has to be my best ever, delivered to grading in 3 days for value plus? I remember people saying their boxes sat unopened for 2+ weeks using value plus. I guess it's gotten better!


Type: Value Plus 25 (even though value plus is 40 business days now?)
# of cards: 4
Estimated Completion: 03/31/2026

Order Arrived: 2/2/2026
Order Prep: 2/4/2026
Research & ID: 2/5/2026
Grading: 2/5/2026
Assembly:
QA Checks:
Grades Ready:
Completed:
Damn did you slip a $100 bill in with your order?
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Old 02-05-2026, 05:15 PM   #25222
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Old 02-06-2026, 05:34 AM   #25223
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Had grades pop from an Oct value bulk sub last Thursday, but still no word on the tracking.

Is it normally taking them a week+ to ship orders?
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Old 02-06-2026, 08:12 AM   #25224
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Order Type: Value (75 Business Days)
# of Cards: 17
Est. date : 3/20/2026
Order shipped: 11/24/2025
Order received per PSA: 11/26/2025
Order Prep: 12/19/2025
Entered Research & ID: 2/2/2026
Grading:2/6/2026
Assembly:
QA Check :
Complete :


Order Type: Value + Auto Auth (85 Business Days)
# of Cards: 1
Est. date : 4/3/2026
Order shipped: 11/24/2025
Order received per PSA: 11/26/2025
Order Prep: 12/19/2025
Entered Research & ID:1/27/2026
Grading:
Assembly:
QA Check :
Complete :

Order Type: Value (75 Business Days)
# of Cards: 6
Est. date : 5/19/2026
Order shipped: 1/30/2026
Order received per PSA: 2/2/2026
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Old 02-06-2026, 09:07 AM   #25225
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Got a push notification a little past midnight that one of my orders moved to grading. Get that overtime, fellas.
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