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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

I think it strains credulity to believe the set registry wasn't created to take advantage of and fuel competition among participants. And that PSA is counting on this "overt competition" to contribute to a flood of initial re-submissions and help resuscitate their sagging business outlook. In addition, it is logical to believe PSA's rush to give certain prominant set registry members great deals to re-submit is motivated in large measure by PSA's hope that the bump in those members' set standings would create a domino effect and induce others to re-submit to maintain their place in the standings.

If in fact the typical set registry member does not have competition as one of his motives, then presumably most of the initial set registry re-submissions will come from people ready to sell now. Otherwise, I don't see why such people would want to incur costs now that could be deferred to later.