As we reported last month, PSA is launching an achievement program inside its Set Registry. The company released details on Tuesday afternoon, one that also includes a contest on social media where sports cards and other prizes are being given away on a daily basis from now until Christmas. The online program will challenge existing PSA Set Registry members and … [Read more...]
PSA Announces New Pricing Structure
Still deluged by submissions, PSA is changing its pricing structure for several service levels beginning January 1. While collectors and dealers who submit orders of 50 or more cards for grading and encapsulation and those who use the company’s regular 15-day service won’t see any changes, those who want faster turnaround times will notice some significant price … [Read more...]
Quarterly Revenues at PSA Pass $6 Million
It’s a case of more good news means a little more bad news for PSA and PSA/DNA. The company continues to process a record-setting number of submissions and set revenue records, but the booming business continues to mean a backlog of orders. Late last week, PSA’s parent company, Collectors Universe, released its quarterly report for the first three months of the new … [Read more...]
PSA Launches New, Search-Based Population Report
PSA has launched what it calls “a quicker, search-based” version of its Population Report. Instead of a multi-layered, drill down search that navigates through multiple web pages, including pages for category, year, set, player and card number, users can now simply type in the set year, name and subject (“1960 Topps Carl Yastrzemski”) from a search box. Collectors will … [Read more...]
PSA Launches Pricing, Research Tool for Graded Cards
PSA has launched a pricing research function for sales of its graded sports cards at auction houses and on eBay. PSA Auction Prices Realized offers a fully searchable database of cards and associated results dating back over ten years. Users can type in a specific player and retrieve a list of cards. The number of results for each specific card is shown along … [Read more...]
PSA Unveils New Label Security Package
Trading cards authenticated by PSA are getting a new label and some new security features. The company unveiled the changes on Wednesday. The front of the label still features a red border, outlining the collectible’s details. Now, however, instead of mere white behind the label copy, the wave-like brush strokes of what the company calls “fugitive ink” … [Read more...]
Graded Vintage Card Market Hotter Than Ever
ATLANTIC CITY - Levi Bleam was one of more popular people on the show floor Thursday at the National Sports Collectors Convention. That’s because what’s old is new again in the world of collecting. Bleam owns 707 Sportscards LTD out of Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania and deals only in cards from before 1970. One of the hobby's longest tenured dealers, Bleam specializes in … [Read more...]
Police Hunt Thieves Who Looted SoCal Man’s Collections
What began as a weekend celebration ended on a dismaying note for longtime California dealer/collector Don Del Mazzio. The last of his seven children was getting married in Las Vegas last weekend. But when Del Mazzio and his wife returned to their Anaheim Hills residence on Monday night, a terrible surprise awaited. Thieves had broken into their 10-room house and looted it, … [Read more...]
Toughest PSA 9 Football Rookie Cards of the 1970s
Topps owned a virtual monopoly on football cards during the league's explosive growth period following the AFL-NFL merger. Although it is easy to come by an ungraded version of most any 1970s Topps football rookie card, locating high-grade examples of some of them can be a challenge. The list below doesn’t include every 1970s rookie card, just a large sampling of the most … [Read more...]
Over 4,000 Vintage Baseball Cards Offered in Big Set Break
Vintage card collectors will have a chance to put some serious dents in their want lists starting today when Memory Lane Inc. opens a special I Own it Now sale featuring over 4,000 PSA-graded cards from some of the hobby’s most iconic sets. It’s believed to be the largest private offering of such cards ever offered for sale. The cards span eight different decades—from the … [Read more...]