Can / Should PSA Split?

[raulus]

I think there's a very real question whether they could survive as a standalone sports card grader, particularly if the economy takes a downturn. It's one thing to survive when times are good, but when the tide goes out, a lot of businesses get caught without a suit.

For that matter, even if they did have a dedicated sports card grading service, there's no guarantee that it would be any quicker with turnaround. Many businesses deliberately size their staff to create a backlog, and it seems like PSA prefers that setup as well.

[Peter_Spaeth]

PSA is killing it as far as I can tell. Why should they change anything? People submit no matter what they charge and how long the turnaround times are. They have the entire industry by (you name the body part). And as Nicolo points out why is dividing it into distinct groups going to help, the obvious way to make things go faster is hire more people, but they don't want to do that.

[raulus]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

PSA is killing it as far as I can tell. Why should they change anything? People submit no matter what they charge and how long the turnaround times are. They have the entire industry by (you name the body part). And as Nicolo points out why is dividing it into distinct groups going to help, the obvious way to make things go faster is hire more people, but they don't want to do that.

Don't forget that the flip is the commodity now.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by raulus

Don't forget that the flip is the commodity now.

It is and has been for a long time.

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

PSA is killing it as far as I can tell. Why should they change anything? People submit no matter what they charge and how long the turnaround times are. They have the entire industry by (you name the body part). And as Nicolo points out why is dividing it into distinct groups going to help, the obvious way to make things go faster is hire more people, but they don't want to do that.

No reason at all to change...their current business model is Gold.

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

PSA is killing it as far as I can tell. Why should they change anything? People submit no matter what they charge and how long the turnaround times are. They have the entire industry by (you name the body part).

Originally Posted by Johnny630

No reason at all to change...their current business model is Gold.

Precisely! The company charges whatever it wants, delivers service that's convenient for only itself and buyers keep lining up. Why change anything?

[tiger8mush]

I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that PSA (and TPGs in general) have some graders who specialize in pokeman, others who specialize in modern sports, others in vintage sports, and others in prewar. Does the same grader with expertise grading modern pokeman also have the expertise to detect if a 5-figure N173 OJ has been rebacked, trimmed, or otherwise altered?