Running PSA Order Tracker

[Kmm1116]

Ugh I tried to do something funny here and failed miserably.. just add that to my Friday..

[Redsmitty03]

Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 15
Received per USPS: 7/16
Received per PSA: 8/18
Research: 8/18
Grading: 9/18
Assembly: 11/6
QA1: 11/11
QA2: 11/13
Shipped: 11/20 (10/15 gems)

[71sbeetle]

Well, I guess I'll have to wait over another weekend 😫

[Erikthredd]

My two card CC order finally got into the game.

Originally Posted by Erikthredd

Order Type: CC vouchers
# of cards: 2
Order delivered: 10-27
Order received per PSA: 11-20
Research & ID: 11-20
Grading:
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

Order Type: Regular Supersized
# of cards: 19
Order delivered: 11-11
Order received per PSA: 11-12
Research & ID: 11-12
Grading: 11-13
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

[Kmm1116]

Originally Posted by 71sbeetle

Well, I guess I'll have to wait over another weekend 😫

Yup lol me too.. I am just praying it’s not stretching over thanksgiving lol

[71sbeetle]

Originally Posted by Kmm1116

Yup lol me too.. I am just praying it’s not stretching over thanksgiving lol

Oh nooooooo I forgot it's thanksgiving already lol. I was looking at the cards I sent and they're definitely worth less than $499 (especially now 4 months later lol) so I don't think it's upcharge. Guess it's just the flow that is slow.

[Kmm1116]

Yea so now I am realizing that if I submitted it to CGC I might have already had made a better return because the card would have been back to me before the prices dropped

[bigmon916]

Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 20
Received per USPS: 7/27/20
Received per PSA: 8/28/20
Research:8/28/20
Grading:9/22/20
Assembly:11/13/20
QA1:11/16/20
QA2:11/16/20
Shipped:11/20/20

[GotLoveForAll]

Originally Posted by GotLoveForAll

Order Type: Express
# of cards: 34
Order delivered: 11/05/2020
Order received per PSA: 11/05/2020
Research & ID: 11/10/2020
Grading: 11/11/2020
Assembly: 11/20/2020
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

Order Type: Express
# of cards: 14
Order delivered: 11/05/2020
Order received per PSA: 11/05/2020
Research & ID: 11/10/2020
Grading: 11/11/2020
Assembly: 11/20/2020
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

Going faster than I expected.

[71sbeetle]

Well I got my pop ..... I thought they were closed on weekends

Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 47
Received per FedEx: 7/9/20
Received per PSA: 8/7/20
Research: unsure
Grading: 8/25/20
Assembly: unsure
QA1:unsure but I think 11/5/2020
QA2:11/9/20
"Details" no longer visible: 11/18/2020
Shipped: 11/21/2020

So because this was my first order with multiple cards (before that was always single card that got PSA 10) I had a friend that helped me setup my order to ship to PSA since he's sent several hundred cards to PSA in the last few years. He narrowed down my pile from over 120 cards down to the 47 I sent in, basically if he didn't think it would grade 10 we didn't send it, except for a few cards that were for my PC that I didn't really care what the grade would be.
Out of 47 cards I got ...... 7 PSA 10!!! About half were 9, about 25% were 8 and 2 cards got a 7!
Now for the funny part, my PC cards all got 9 or 10, those were the ones we were expecting 7-8 on lol. One card my kid pulled a few years ago (he was probably 9 or 10 at the time) and it was in a storage bin along with a few hundred other cards, no sleeve no toploader. Then last year he put it in a binder and back in June I pulled it to have it graded. My friend said that one could get as low as a 5 ...... it got a 10! There were 3 of the same cards from this year's Finest we sent in and 1 of them he said would not get 10 because of refractor line and very fine scratches on the top surface, so he said put that one on the top of the pile and the other 2 below this way they see the worse one first. Well that top one got a 10 ..... and the other two got 7 and 8. I just spoke to him, he doesn't remember all the cards exactly since it was in late June he saw them but he's as confused as I am lol.
My "biggest" card in the shipment was a Robert/Alvarez dual auto numbered to 25, which at the time had sold once on eBay for $265 I think. He said it should be a 10, but maybe a 9 because sticker auto and he was saying some graders consider that something added to the card and lower the grade. It graded 7 ...... ouch. And of the (I think) 18 Robert RC from series 2 I had he picked only 2 that he knew for sure would get a 10 .... They got 8 and 9! Either I got a very very very picky grader or that guy's big collection of PSA 10 cards is fake and he doesn't know what he's talking about when he looked at my cards lol

[oddstuff]

Originally Posted by 71sbeetle

Well I got my pop ..... I thought they were closed on weekends

Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 47
Received per FedEx: 7/9/20
Received per PSA: 8/7/20
Research: unsure
Grading: 8/25/20
Assembly: unsure
QA1:unsure but I think 11/5/2020
QA2:11/9/20
"Details" no longer visible: 11/18/2020
Shipped: 11/21/2020

So because this was my first order with multiple cards (before that was always single card that got PSA 10) I had a friend that helped me setup my order to ship to PSA since he's sent several hundred cards to PSA in the last few years. He narrowed down my pile from over 120 cards down to the 47 I sent in, basically if he didn't think it would grade 10 we didn't send it, except for a few cards that were for my PC that I didn't really care what the grade would be.
Out of 47 cards I got ...... 7 PSA 10!!! About half were 9, about 25% were 8 and 2 cards got a 7!
Now for the funny part, my PC cards all got 9 or 10, those were the ones we were expecting 7-8 on lol. One card my kid pulled a few years ago (he was probably 9 or 10 at the time) and it was in a storage bin along with a few hundred other cards, no sleeve no toploader. Then last year he put it in a binder and back in June I pulled it to have it graded. My friend said that one could get as low as a 5 ...... it got a 10! There were 3 of the same cards from this year's Finest we sent in and 1 of them he said would not get 10 because of refractor line and very fine scratches on the top surface, so he said put that one on the top of the pile and the other 2 below this way they see the worse one first. Well that top one got a 10 ..... and the other two got 7 and 8. I just spoke to him, he doesn't remember all the cards exactly since it was in late June he saw them but he's as confused as I am lol.
My "biggest" card in the shipment was a Robert/Alvarez dual auto numbered to 25, which at the time had sold once on eBay for $265 I think. He said it should be a 10, but maybe a 9 because sticker auto and he was saying some graders consider that something added to the card and lower the grade. It graded 7 ...... ouch. And of the (I think) 18 Robert RC from series 2 I had he picked only 2 that he knew for sure would get a 10 .... They got 8 and 9! Either I got a very very very picky grader or that guy's big collection of PSA 10 cards is fake and he doesn't know what he's talking about when he looked at my cards lol

Sounds like your friend doesn't know what he is looking for or talking about. Sticker autos has no affect on the grade unless you're doing dual grading (to have the card AND the auto graded which is an extra charge). If you use regular grading service, the grader does not take the auto into consideration, no matter if the auto is on card or sticker auto. I hope he didn't charge you for the "screening service".

[klee910]

Originally Posted by 71sbeetle

Well I got my pop ..... I thought they were closed on weekends

Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 47
Received per FedEx: 7/9/20
Received per PSA: 8/7/20
Research: unsure
Grading: 8/25/20
Assembly: unsure
QA1:unsure but I think 11/5/2020
QA2:11/9/20
"Details" no longer visible: 11/18/2020
Shipped: 11/21/2020

So because this was my first order with multiple cards (before that was always single card that got PSA 10) I had a friend that helped me setup my order to ship to PSA since he's sent several hundred cards to PSA in the last few years. He narrowed down my pile from over 120 cards down to the 47 I sent in, basically if he didn't think it would grade 10 we didn't send it, except for a few cards that were for my PC that I didn't really care what the grade would be.
Out of 47 cards I got ...... 7 PSA 10!!! About half were 9, about 25% were 8 and 2 cards got a 7!
Now for the funny part, my PC cards all got 9 or 10, those were the ones we were expecting 7-8 on lol. One card my kid pulled a few years ago (he was probably 9 or 10 at the time) and it was in a storage bin along with a few hundred other cards, no sleeve no toploader. Then last year he put it in a binder and back in June I pulled it to have it graded. My friend said that one could get as low as a 5 ...... it got a 10! There were 3 of the same cards from this year's Finest we sent in and 1 of them he said would not get 10 because of refractor line and very fine scratches on the top surface, so he said put that one on the top of the pile and the other 2 below this way they see the worse one first. Well that top one got a 10 ..... and the other two got 7 and 8. I just spoke to him, he doesn't remember all the cards exactly since it was in late June he saw them but he's as confused as I am lol.
My "biggest" card in the shipment was a Robert/Alvarez dual auto numbered to 25, which at the time had sold once on eBay for $265 I think. He said it should be a 10, but maybe a 9 because sticker auto and he was saying some graders consider that something added to the card and lower the grade. It graded 7 ...... ouch. And of the (I think) 18 Robert RC from series 2 I had he picked only 2 that he knew for sure would get a 10 .... They got 8 and 9! Either I got a very very very picky grader or that guy's big collection of PSA 10 cards is fake and he doesn't know what he's talking about when he looked at my cards lol

that sucks, i wonder if they normally give low grades to first time submitters.

[oddstuff]

Originally Posted by Kmm1116

Yea so now I am realizing that if I submitted it to CGC I might have already had made a better return because the card would have been back to me before the prices dropped

Some cards may be better off sold raw unless you are able to use express/super express service to get the card back and sold before the value heads south.

[71sbeetle]

Originally Posted by oddstuff

Sounds like your friend doesn't know what he is looking for or talking about. Sticker autos has no affect on the grade unless you're doing dual grading (to have the card AND the auto graded which is an extra charge). If you use regular grading service, the grader does not take the auto into consideration, no matter if the auto is on card or sticker auto. I hope he didn't charge you for the "screening service".

No he was saying that he has gotten a card (or cards?) with sticker auto that had a certain grade but had a note on the label with a code for a "defect"
Edit: It was bothering me so I called him to ask him again, he said he had a couple cards with authentication sticker (I thought it was an auto sticker but I was wrong) that came back PSA 10 but with a "MK qualifier" on it and he said he couldn't see anything on the card so he figured it was from the sticker

And no lol he didn't charge me anything, he was just trying to help but now he feels bad he said. When we reviewed the cards, we basically started by looking at the centering of the front (which on cards without a frame is harder unless you have a few to compare) and then the back (which I hadn't even thought about until he told me they check centering front and back lol) then we looked at the corners, and then along the edges, basically looking at the "layers" that make up the card making sure they aren't separating, and that if the surface (front or back) has a darker color make sure the white doesn't show. If that was all good we would look at the surface of the card front and back, making sure there were no scratches or defects from manufacturing. I had started with over 120 cards that I thought were gradable and he narrowed them down to I think about 30-35, the rest was cards I kept in because they were PC and I didn't care if they didn't grade 10.

Originally Posted by klee910

that sucks, i wonder if they normally give low grades to first time submitters.

That would seem counter-intuitive, unless of course they'd rather get less business lol. But how would the grader know?

[oddstuff]

Originally Posted by 71sbeetle

No he was saying that he has gotten a card (or cards?) with sticker auto that had a certain grade but had a note on the label with a code for a "defect"
Edit: It was bothering me so I called him to ask him again, he said he had a couple cards with authentication sticker (I thought it was an auto sticker but I was wrong) that came back PSA 10 but with a "MK qualifier" on it and he said he couldn't see anything on the card so he figured it was from the sticker

And no lol he didn't charge me anything, he was just trying to help but now he feels bad he said. When we reviewed the cards, we basically started by looking at the centering of the front (which on cards without a frame is harder unless you have a few to compare) and then the back (which I hadn't even thought about until he told me they check centering front and back lol) then we looked at the corners, and then along the edges, basically looking at the "layers" that make up the card making sure they aren't separating, and that if the surface (front or back) has a darker color make sure the white doesn't show. If that was all good we would look at the surface of the card front and back, making sure there were no scratches or defects from manufacturing. I had started with over 120 cards that I thought were gradable and he narrowed them down to I think about 30-35, the rest was cards I kept in because they were PC and I didn't care if they didn't grade 10.

The "MK" designation should not be the result of a factory applied sticker auto, even if the penmanship of the signer is terrible. Somewhere else on the card there is some sort of pen/pencil "mark". Did you look at the cards with magnification and with light? Magnification (minimum 10x) often shows me corner defects that I don't catch with the naked eye...and a bright light often shows surface defects that I don't catch with regular room lighting. Looking at the surface of a card at different angles can reveal surface scratches that is not caught looking at the card head on. If there's even 1% of doubt in my mind in terms of corner showing a hint of white, in my mind that card has zero chance for a 10 as my experiences have shown that corners is the area PSA grades the hardest.

[yanksfan1]

I know turnaround times are all over the place but does anyone have a guess on the regular and express turnarounds for a 1 card order? I have a mosaic gold reactive of Justin Herbert that I want to get back but only want to do it if I can get it back fairly quickly.

[yupIMgriffeyFAN]

Originally Posted by yanksfan1

I know turnaround times are all over the place but does anyone have a guess on the regular and express turnarounds for a 1 card order? I have a mosaic gold reactive of Justin Herbert that I want to get back but only want to do it if I can get it back fairly quickly.

If you do an Express you're probably looking at 30 days door-to-door. If sent in a few weeks ago it would be more like 17 days (from my recent express order). But they upped the Business Days turnaround from 5 to 15. Would recommend forking the extra $25 for the Express if you think it is a 9 or 10, as you will get it back before the playoffs whereas Regular you might not.

Hope this helps!

[rsgenerals]

15 card economy order submitted in July is wrapping up this past week and looks like it will go into this week before getting shipped out. 8/15 Gems. Up-charged on two cards (hence why it will take time to ship out): 1) up to $200 on a Lebron 221 rookie (I had this as a 9) and 2) up to $50 on a Luka Prizm base rookie (I had this 8-9).

I asked to up my insurance and I guess PSA is working on it although I have already been charged the original amount of insurance on my debit card. My shipment is apparently in hold per the rep at PSA.

Anyway, any suggestions on what to sell to cover $600 in grading fees?

Zion 2019 Prizm Base - 9 (need this for my set)
Luka 2019 Prizm Silver - 10
Trae 2019 Prizm Fast Break Blue - 10
Luka 2018 Prizm Base - 10
Lebron 2019 Optic Purple Shock - 9
Bol Bol 2019 Optic Holo - 10
Lebron 2003 Topps 221 - 10
DWade 2003 Topps 225 - 9
DWade 2003 Topps 225 - 9 (Can't seem to gem a DWade)
Carmelo 2003 Topps 223 - 9
Carmelo 2003 Topps 223 - 10
Bosh 2003 Topps 224 - 10
Bosh 2003 Topps 224 Black Border - 8 (Pop 1 Card)
Lamar 2018 Prizm Base - 9
Ozzie Smith 1993 Leaf Heading for the Hall - 10 (need this for my set)

[bman4511]

Order Type: Regular
# of Cards: 6
Delivered to PSA: 10/23
Barcode Scanned: 10/26
Research & ID: 11/2
Grading: 11/2
Assembly: 11/18
QA1: 11/18
QA2: 11/19
Shipped: 11/19

Also, below is my update on that Economy order that is pushing through quick. Looks like I just got lucky. If it pops this week, it won't even be two full months.


Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 40
Delivered to PSA: 9/20
Research & ID: 10/26
Grading: 11/10
Assembly: 11/16
QA1: 11/18
QA2: 11/19
Shipped:

[dkcardman]

Originally Posted by bman4511

Order Type: Regular
# of Cards: 6
Delivered to PSA: 10/23
Barcode Scanned: 10/26
Research & ID: 11/2
Grading: 11/2
Assembly: 11/18
QA1: 11/18
QA2: 11/19
Shipped: 11/19

Also, below is my update on that Economy order that is pushing through quick. Looks like I just got lucky. If it pops this week, it won't even be two full months.


Order Type: Economy
# of Cards: 40
Delivered to PSA: 9/20
Research & ID: 10/26
Grading: 11/10
Assembly: 11/16
QA1: 11/18
QA2: 11/19
Shipped:

Wow bro, that is early and congrats! I have 6 economy orders in all between 8/29 and 9/14 and all are still in grading. They really have no rhyme or reason to how they process this stuff.

[messier2]

Both my July bulks are in Grading:

Order Type: Bulk- Modern
# of Cards: 108
Received per USPS: Mid-June
Received per PSA: 7/17
Research: 7/17
Grading: 11/19 (with cards listed)
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

Order Type: Bulk- Ultra Modern
# of Cards: 100
Received per USPS: Mid-June
Received per PSA: 7/15
Research: 7/15
Grading: 11/20 (with cards listed)
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

[ghott86]

Originally Posted by ghott86

Order Type: Economy
# of cards: 24
Order delivered: 7/31/2020
Order received per PSA: 9/2/2020
Research & ID: 9/2/2020
Grading: 9/18/2020
Assembly:
QA1:
QA2:
Shipped:

Economy order...been at PSA for going on 4 months and has been sitting in "Grading" for over 2 months

[Kmm1116]

My single express card is finally in QA 2... a person would think this job would take 5 minutes.. let’s see card name.. number and cracks nope we are good let’s ship it.. ... ummmmm

I wonder if this will take all day lol

[TheHeel]

I have a couple bulk orders at PSA -

Order #1: Arrived 10-3-2020. Still not "Entered"
Order #2: Arrived 11-17-2020. Entered 11-23-2020

What date is PSA, in a general sense, at for bulk? Mid-July?

[Blanketcards]

Originally Posted by ghott86

Economy order...been at PSA for going on 4 months and has been sitting in "Grading" for over 2 months

I have 3 Economy orders that are now over 4 months stuck in grading.