The scale of the money spent by the average hobbyist on Collectors brands, particularly PSA, is staggering when analyzing ...

PSA's latest grading labels are commanding a premium, which experts think shouldn't be the case. (PSA / eBay) The reason people grade trading cards and seal them in plastic tombs in perpetuity is to ...

Pokémon accounted for 97 of the top 100 cards graded in total volume by PSA in the first half of 2025, according to a new report by third-party grading tracker GemRate. The staggering total continues ...

📊20 million cards were graded across the four major graders in 2024. Total cards graded is ⬆16% compared to 2023 (17 million). 📊11.4 million sports cards (⬆25% YoY) and 8.6 million TCG (+ non sport) ...

Buying graded cards or getting your cards graded has become a major part of the card collecting hobby. Whether you’re a seasoned collector or just pulled a rare card from a pack, getting cards graded ...

The 2020 boom of sports cards allowed collectors to rip a few packs, pull something shiny, and ship it off. Flash forward weeks or months later, it comes back a gem… and you’re already flipping it for ...

Professional Sports Authenticator's parent company Collectors purchased Beckett, PSA's longtime rival in the card grading and authentication industry. Monetary terms of the deal were not made ...

I still remember pulling my first rookie card from a pack as a kid. It was the iconic Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck, what a thrill (I still have it)! Fast forward to now, and I have boxes of baseball ...

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