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Will PSA's Price Hike Affect Anything? · Sports Card Clubhouse

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In our massive country, there are card collectors throughout
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the land participating in the hobby.
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There's Mike of Junk Wax Hero and Greg of Midlife Cards, and
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while distance may separate them, here is where they come
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together to talk cards. Hey buddy, you look so much
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different than you did last week.
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Man, Jake did a fantastic job and you were great, obviously,
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as you always are. But you know, I listened to
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that. I finally got a chance to listen
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to that episode on my drive home on Tuesday and it was so good.
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I loved, I listened to the whole thing.
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The Jackie Robinson talk at the end was really, really good.
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That PSA one that sold, I never would have guessed $27,000 like
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you could have told me. This is the nicest one ever.
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How much do you think it sold for?
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I would have guessed like high teens, low 20s would be an
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aggressive number. The I Appeal movement is real.
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It is here to stay. It is not going away.
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People want to look at things that look nice.
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They don't want to look at things that don't look nice.
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Look at that. I just, I mean, that's ground
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breaking than what I just said. Which is probably why people
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prefer Podcast and Of Us. I mean, it's got to be which we
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might talk about that a little bit later.
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The podcast versus YouTube of us.
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We'll, we'll, we'll talk about it.
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But you had something to get us started before our main topic of
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the day that I would love to pick your brain about.
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Yeah, So, you know, it's fun. It's normally we used to when we
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would start this, we would catch up before, before we'd start
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recording, talk about our lives and stuff.
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But we've kind of turn that into the podcast.
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There's a there's a lot of our lives now and, and fun little
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side things. And I had something that's
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happening right now. And I want to ask you, if you if
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your wife and kids were gone for three days, leaving you home
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alone, what would you do with yourself?
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Oh my goodness. Let's let's keep this
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appropriate. Jeez, well first of all, let me
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back up and say happy birthday. You did have a birthday since
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the last time. So happy birthday to you my
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friend. I appreciate it.
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That's a great question. I am a person.
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Sorry, by the way. By the way, you have no car
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because you only have one family vehicle and they took your one
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vehicle. OK, so that would be such a
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different question than it used to be.
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I do a lot of yard work and I do a lot of yard work for different
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reasons. One, I do a lot of yard work
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because I like it when my yard looks nice.
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Two, I think it's fun exercise. Three, I like taking something
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ugly and making it look pretty, and yard work allows me to do
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those things. So I would spend at least one of
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those days doing like my spring cleaning where I do extra yard
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work stuff would definitely be one of the three days.
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My wife one time when when I was it's been a long time since I've
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had something like that, but my wife one time laughed in the
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morning and came back late that night.
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And this is a few years ago and there's ATV show called The
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first 48 and the first 48 is there's basically a camera crew
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with an actual murder investigation unit in different
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cities and they document the whole investigation and
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everything. And I literally from the moment
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my wife left, like 10 hours, I just watched episode after
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episode after episode. I don't.
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I'm not into TV right now that I haven't watched anything other
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than sports in a while. So some yard work, I'd probably
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go play a few holes of golf. I would probably.
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You live on a golf course, you don't need a vehicle.
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Yeah, I have AI have a golf cart in my garage.
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I just opened the garage and get in my golf cart and drive over
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to the the hole I want to start on.
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So and honestly I'd probably knock out a couple of videos
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ahead of time that way when they come back then we could actually
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hang out. So I'm going to guess that you
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would tell me how I would do. You would have at least one day
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that would be a horror movie marathon and you would probably
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have a box of Cheez. Its probably the white cheddar
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Cheez. Its with you Cheddar Jack.
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And holding up for anybody listening, I'm holding up a box
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of Cheez its that sits on my desk at all times.
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So you'd have a box of the cheddar, white cheddar cheddar
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Jack Cheez. Its you would do at least one
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day of horror movies. I think that you would probably
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get some cards together to send off to Comp C.
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And what else would you do? You might and I I don't think
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you'd eat very healthy. Man, this is alarming how well
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you know me after such a short period of time.
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So as of 2:30 this afternoon, which was 3 1/2 hours ago, I was
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by myself until Sunday afternoon and I, I worked until, I don't
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know, 4/30, 5:00 and I sat down and I had some dinner, which was
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pizza, of course. And I was watching, I was
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watching The Sandlot, which I haven't watched in decades.
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And tonight, after we're done with this podcast, I am going to
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watch a horror movie tomorrow. I have to work all day,
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unfortunately. I tried getting the day off,
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couldn't, didn't work out, I was too slow.
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But then tomorrow night, I don't know what I'm going to do.
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I think probably another horror movie within Saturday.
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I'm spending the day a lot, a significant chunk of the day
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working here in my office. And which means putting things
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on the walls, which I have not had time to do because I once
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I'm done with work in here, I go up and spend time with my wife
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and my kids. And, but I am going to put stuff
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on the walls. I'm going to organize my cards.
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I'm going to do all the things that I've been saying.
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I'm going to do this soon. I'm going to do this soon.
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And I'm not sending cards to Com C, but you were close.
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I'm going to send some cards to CGCJSA.
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Which might be a good lead into our conversation.
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I do want to say this though, I, I, I remembered something as you
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were speaking that I, I have added a lot of my cards in my
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collection into my card ladder collection and I want to put
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them all in. And so I need to raw that up.
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No, not raw stuff, just degraded stuff.
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Most of my raw stuff is autos. I have a lot of raw autos, which
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again, the you, you going with CGCJSA is, is interesting and
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and it does perfectly lead us into, into our, our first topic.
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But let me just do a little bit of a sidebar and say you're not
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selling those cards in Comp C, but if you were selling cards
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somewhere like a collection per SE, where would you go to sell
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those cards? Mike, I would as always go with
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Chris Sewell, baseball card collector, investor, dealer, in
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that order. Our friend, our sponsor of
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Surface Issues is Chris Sewell. And if I were selling my
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collection, in fact, I have a document that's saved in my
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Google Drive for my wife. If something ever happens to me,
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it does say reach out to Chris Sewell.
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Here's his phone number. He will buy my collection.
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He will give the best price, the most value and a good
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explanation of how. And, and I would recommend to
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anybody, but they if they're looking to sell part or all of
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their collection, they reach out to Chris at
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sewellsportscards@gmail.com. You can also go to our website
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sportscardclubhouse.com and reach out to him through there.
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It has his his address has his website, sportscardclubhouse.com
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or just e-mail him at sewellsportscards@gmail.com.
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Now it's interesting because probably the most common
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question genuinely, because I've been doing my Q&A episodes every
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Wednesday for three years and they literally, it started
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almost to the day three years ago and I think I missed one
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Wednesday out of those. So about 150 of them that I've
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done. And the most common question
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slash concern slash theme that I get is what do I do to make sure
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that whoever ends up with my collection doesn't get ripped
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off? Do I have to get my cards
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graded? Because I'm afraid of that.
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And I genuinely mean this when I say this.
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If somebody called Chris and the cards were raw, I, I know that
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they would be treated fairly and they would not have what the
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local card shop is going to do to them.
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So it is something for people to consider as you do need an, an
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exit strategy after we make our exit.
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And I, I think it's a very, very good option.
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Now our, our topic for the week. Now, I watched Neo's video.
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Actually, I take that back. Neo has done a couple of videos
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about this. I, I watched the 1 today.
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We're recording this on February 12th.
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I also watched your video, which I want to say was a day or two
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ago, I can't remember, about PSA raising their prices, extending
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how long the cards are going to be to get returned.
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But really the big thing was the price is going up.
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So let me this is sort of the news of the moment.
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And I know that some people hate the card grading discussion, but
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it's undeniable that the grades and grading and grading
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companies are a major piece of what is happening in the hobby.
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So we do need to stay apprised of it.
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So let me just start with this. They raised the prices about $5
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per level per card in some cases.
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That's about a 20% increase, right?
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Do you think that's going to slow down submissions?
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I think it will slow them down some and that is their stated
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reason why. But I think the real reason why
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is they know that there is an appetite to continue paying for
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grading. And so let's say they say we're
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going to receive 10% fewer submissions, but at 20 to 25%
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more revenue, it's worth it. And, and they don't need to
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invest significantly more money in, in capacity to accommodate,
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you know, at at $18.20 one dollars, whatever it is, if they
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continue to receive cards in at that level, they have to invest
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in capacity or they can Jack up their prices and continue
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receiving 85% of the volume. And they don't need to pay
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investing capacity. And when I say capacity, I mean
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people, graders, authenticators along the entire production
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line. It's one of these things where,
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listen, I'm a collector and I want PSA and SGC and Beckett to
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be really, really cheap and really, really fast.
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That's what I want as a customer.
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That's what I want. But that's not how business
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works. And people get so angry and like
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hurt when PSA does something like raise the prices, like
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they're, they're like offended. And I have a lot of students
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that work in fast food restaurants and they say, yeah,
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when we raise prices, like people will yell at us because
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they get the same thing every time.
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They're like, why did it go up $0.40?
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And they're like, I don't like people get mad when the prices
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go up. But there are certain industries
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that are very dynamic pricing, right?
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It's like if if the flight, let's use the hotel.
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So Embassy Suites we're staying at in what's the name of the
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town we're going to The Strongsville show is now in
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Independence. OK, When we first you and I
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first heard it was being moved to Independence, the first thing
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that about 10 or 15 of us did is we said where are you going to
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stay? We all booked at the same hotel.
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I'm 100% sure. I haven't looked, but I'm 100%
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sure if I tried to book that hotel right now, it would be
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significantly more expensive than what I have already paid
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for it because it's dynamic pricing.
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They go, the demand is going up. For some reason, we have fewer
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rooms available now. I'm going to raise the price to
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accommodate that. I am flying down tomorrow to the
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West Coast card show and I guarantee you the person that's
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going to be sitting next to me did not say paint the same exact
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price for their ticket for that same exact flight as I paid.
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So why do we get so upset? No, I it's your problem.
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You're freezing on me. You're frozen.
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You're frozen. You're not back yet.
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You're not. You're still not back.
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You, you. Your eyes are actually closed.
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I want to take a picture of how you look right now so I can show
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you what I see. Your eyes are still shut on the
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screen, buddy. I can kind of hear you.
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You're trying, I hear. You hear me just fine.
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I'm right here. Yes, I hear you now.
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So your price, your I'm sorry. So my streamer, my Internet is
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perfect. There is nothing wrong with my
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Internet. I'm on video calls for work all
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day long. Now look at that handsome guy.
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I am on video calls all day long.
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Never ever ever have any issues. But when I pop in the stream
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yard, there's always that issue and I am I have raised some
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concerns with stream yard and they they claim it's my fault
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and that I need to, you know, hardwire in shouldn't need to
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hardwire in. I don't hardwire in for any
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other. I I use Microsoft Teams, I use
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Webex, I use zoom. There's never ever, ever Anita
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Stream Yard won't be sponsoring me or this channel because it's
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garbage. So and it's not cheap.
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I mean the amount I pay a year for stream yard would blow
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people's minds. That's crazy.
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So back to the dynamic pricing, I mean how you price?
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You price your product for what the market will bear, not you
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Don't price your product to be nice to people.
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That's not American capitalism. You price it for what the market
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will bear. You maximize your revenue.
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And I totally understand why PSA is doing it.
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It just it, it's crazy. There's the The prices now are
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insane. Yeah, they're insane.
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But like you said, I do understand it.
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And and when this first news first broke, we're on like a
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discord together and there's there's a little bunch of guys
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on it and somebody posted, I think it was TJS online posted.
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Yeah, the prices are going up. That was like the morning that
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this news came out and I said and people were mad and I
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understand why they're mad. I'm not happy about it.
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But the analogy I used was it's like if I set up a lemonade
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stand and was charging 1/4 for a cup of lemonade and the first
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person came up and they took a sip of it and they're like, this
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is awful. But then the line got five
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people deep and I raised the price to $0.50 and another
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person tried it and it was still awful.
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But then the line went to 30 people deep and I raised the
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price to a dollar and then $5 and then $10 and the line gets
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longer and longer and longer. Aren't I crazy?
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If I don't raise the prices until the demand actually drops,
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which hasn't happened in years, then why wouldn't they raise the
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price? Like Disneyland isn't lowering
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prices and people are packing in that place.
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Do those Disney fans, do they, you know, throw things at the
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wall because Disney raised the price?
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Like, and I know they're going to be people out there that are
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just going to be pissed because they're like, you're they're
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defending PSA. I'm not defending PSA.
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I'm just I understand what they're doing.
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And if I was in charge of PSA, I don't think I'd do anything
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differently. Yeah, I love that PSA is now
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disgusting lemonade but. What I'm seeing is people that
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try the product are frequently not thrilled with the product.
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Now some people are. Did, did you see the Super Bowl
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ad where I don't, I don't know what the ad was for, but the,
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the catch the tag line at the end was take a blood test today
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to see if PSA is right for you. And I thought that's, that's
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coming, PSA They're going to require a blood test and people
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are going to do it. They're going to be like, can I
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profit from this? I don't recall that one.
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The only commercial I remember is the Dunkin' Donuts 1.
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I I don't remember any other commercial.
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I wasn't really paying super close attention to any of it.
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That was a different kind of day for you than it was for me.
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So, OK, so how is this going to affect because OK, let me back
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up my my I have an SGC order submitted right now.
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I mailed it on December 27th and it arrived.
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I did I did, I did flat rate shipping because I wanted it to
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be priority and I wanted to be insured and I did flat rate it
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got there. It got there on December 29th,
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OK. It was allegedly processed as
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received on January 8th. So it was like 10 days from the
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time they actually picked it up. Now, I know that when they
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picked it up because I, I tracked it because I want to
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make sure it got there. So from the time they picked it
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up to the time that they hit the button that said received was 10
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days. That was on January 8th that
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said received. It is currently February 12th
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and it still says received and if I go to their website it says
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it's 15 to 20 day turn. Around time, not, not anymore as
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of today, they increased their turn around time to I think 30
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to 45 or 45 to 60 days today. So that's news to me, which is
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great. And I I heard on Neo's episode,
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yeah, it says 40 to 50. Business days, yeah.
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So let's just review here. When, when, when PSA wasn't, I'm
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sorry, when Collector's Universe wasn't the parent company.
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It was 5 to 10 days turn around. Like literally it was a week.
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And there were times I had my card back in my hand after 10
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days. And, and then PSA came in the
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the big company. OK, collector's universe came in
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the big company who's just got everything dialed in.
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And within a year and a half, it is now gone from 5 to 10 days to
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40 to 50. So it's 8 axed that five day
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turn around 8 axed in a year and a half.
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Like imagine any company that got 8 times worse in a year and
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a half, eight times worse. I mean, so, so now it's 40 to 50
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business days. Now does that apply to me?
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That seems like that should apply from this point from today
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forward. It shouldn't apply to me because
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when I submitted it, the deal that I clicked and I submit and
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I've by the way, I've already given them my money.
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They've had my money since 2025 and I don't I don't have my
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cards and and now. It's wait, whoa, hey, whoa, hang
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on. SGC is now collecting money
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upfront. Oh, I guess they always were.
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And it was PSA that wasn't. Correct.
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Yeah, OK. Sorry.
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So they've had my money for two for over.
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They've had my money for two months.
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And when I gave them my money, it said 15 to 20 days and and
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now it says 40 to 50. And now I guess that's just man.
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Well, I guess they got backed up.
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I guess, you know, imagine like so like my grades were due on
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Monday of this week. I had to turn in grades for my
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students. Imagine if I just called up my
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principal and said, I know grades are due, but I've really
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gotten busy lately. I'm doing this podcast and this
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YouTube thing. So I'll get them to you.
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I don't know, I'll try to get them to you by May.
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She would go, huh. What are you talking about,
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Greg? You don't just get to turn them
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in whenever you want. You don't get to just make up
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the rules midway. That's not how it works.
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SGC So the question I have is why did SGC increase in the end?
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Why did we both know the answer? Why did they increase their turn
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around time today, February 12th, 2026, when according to
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GEM rate their month over month change December to January was
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only 5% and I believe there were more business days in January
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than there were in December. There was in all likelihood more
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capacity in January than there was in December even if there
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were the same business days because people take more PTO
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during December. They were.
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They're also down 75% year over year, so why would they be
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jacking up turn around times? There's two reasons.
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Go ahead. What are?
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Do you want me to go with those two or do you want to throw?
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You do it. Reason #1 SGC was making PSA
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look bad. Yeah.
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And when you are a company that owns 2 competing brands and one
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of them is doing really well at what we all say, the thing we
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want most is fast turn around time.
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So we don't want to be without our carts.
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That's more important than an extra 10 bucks is turn around
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times. And so the most important thing
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is turn around times. You got these two competing
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brands. One is the premium brand,
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according to them, one is the boutique brand.
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And the boutique brand is just absolutely taking you out to the
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woodshed and just beating the snot out of you.
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And you've got to, you've got to let off the accelerator and say
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slow them down. They're making us look bad.
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That's one reason. That's one reason #2 is because
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they harvested all of the graders from SGC, had them take
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off their black and white shirt, put on a red, white and blue
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shirt, work in the next office down the one with the padded
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seats instead of the ones with the hard plastic seats.
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Do you think those and now they don't have any graders are?
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Those people seen as traders in around the office.
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Well, when I was at the National, Tony Liebric and I
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went over to the STC booth and we were like, hey, so like are
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all of you guys just going over to PSA And the, the gal that we
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spoke to said, well, they came to everybody at STC and said, do
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you want to come over? And we said what percentage did
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And she said about 2/3. So two, 2/3 of your graders
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leave and now you've got 1/3 left.
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That capacity that we were just talking about, like the funnel,
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right? You got a funnel that you pour
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the gas in your gas can that the funnel just got way smaller and
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it's going to be a lot slower. So one, they lost other graders
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because they got harvested like a kidney.
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And then second, they had to slow them down because they were
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making them look bad. So when I was fresh out of
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college, I was working at a company called MBNA.
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I'm sorry if I've shared this story before, but I worked at a
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company called MBNA. Massive, massive company.
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They had like 30,000 employees at the time.
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They had a lot of satellite sites in Maine.
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I worked at one in Rockland, right on the ocean, beautiful
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spot. And the headquarters, the
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northeast headquarters was in Belfast.
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And Belfast was like really fancy.
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And the people there were snobby and nobody in Rockland liked
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those people. But I was an up and coming 23
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year old, 24 year old and I was a top performer and I got
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promoted and I was sent to the the Home Office in Belfast,
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Maine. And I was kind of persona non
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grata in Rockland. After that, I would go back and
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visit 'cause I still lived in Rockland and I'd pop in and
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they'd be like, oh, big shot Mike here to tell us how to do
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things. And that's how I feel the SGC
26:44
people probably think about PSA people.
26:45
Oh, 100% as a teacher, here's here's the the similar example.
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It's the teacher who you're in the trenches with for all these
26:54
years. And then that teacher goes at
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night and gets their admin credential.
26:59
And then all of a sudden they wear the fancier clothes and,
27:02
you know, maybe a tie every once in a while.
27:04
And they're they're a vice principal.
27:06
And now they're going to come evaluate you because they know
27:09
more than you. And they were just like, oh, OK,
27:11
Darth, you know, that's how we feel.
27:16
It's it's incredible. By the way, I was made AI was
27:21
made promoted into manager at the age of 25.
27:24
Congratulations. Yeah, this was a long time ago,
27:27
but it's looking back on it. It's really weird that they made
27:32
me a manager after such a short period of time.
27:34
And I was managing my former peers because I was promoted to
27:37
manager back in Rockland where I was persona non grata.
27:41
And all these people were like, oh, he's going to be.
27:44
And they, they liked me before I left.
27:47
But now all of a sudden I'm Mr. Hotshot, Mr. Big, big time.
27:51
Coming in and being like, I'm your manager now and I have to
27:54
tell you how to do your job. It's a really awkward thing.
27:59
Who promotes people to manager at 25 years old?
28:03
I mean, I, I don't know. I I don't know.
28:08
I mean that is certainly put you in a very difficult situation.
28:14
It's like, it reminds me kind of like some of the the stuff that
28:18
happened on the office, you know where it's.
28:20
Like bouncing? From. 1.
28:23
Yeah, yeah, he, he shows up and he's a temp and then the next
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thing you know, a few years later, he's.
28:30
Like how's it going? My favorite location.
28:33
Yeah, yeah. And, and by the way, he, I guess
28:36
he directed a lot of it and wrote a lot of.
28:38
It but he did OK. So let's go to that.
28:43
The last little thing that we you started asking me about off
28:47
air and I said, well, let's talk about on the show.
28:49
Let's just let's just have this conversation in public.
28:53
So go ahead and and and share with everybody the question and
28:57
the premise. A couple of people that I
29:00
respect greatly in the hobby and YouTube in general reach have
29:05
reached out to me separately in the past week or two and both
29:08
asked me independent of each other.
29:11
I noticed that you're posting to YouTube like 5 days after you
29:15
post to a podcast and I explained to them, well, why
29:18
don't you explain why that that is currently and then and then
29:23
I'll move on. OK.
29:25
Well, for one, for one, I think that when we started, we both
29:32
had a small YouTube presence, but we had zero podcast
29:37
presence. Neither one of us was on
29:39
Spotify. We weren't on Apple, We weren't
29:42
on any of the places that you can listen to a podcast.
29:45
And so I felt like it was important if we were going to
29:50
have any sort of podcast presence, that what we should
29:53
start with is, is drive people there and you could get it
29:59
earlier if you go there. So I think there's a decent
30:02
amount of people that are YouTube people that weren't
30:05
podcast people. And they said, OK, well, I'll,
30:07
I'll go over to Spotify and I'll check it out there.
30:10
And they, they tried the podcast thing because they could get it
30:14
sooner. So my thought process was, is
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this a podcast or is this a YouTube show?
30:24
This, this surface issues. I think of it of it as a podcast
30:28
because it's we're talking, we're not showing.
30:32
And to me, YouTube is more of a visual platform, a visual medium
30:37
than it is an audio pre medium. And so since we're talking,
30:42
we're not doing a lot of visuals, I think of this as a
30:44
podcast. So we should try to make a
30:47
presence as a podcast and get that kind of ball rolling.
30:50
That was my original thought. Yeah.
30:54
And and both of them said, I get that.
30:58
But they believe that the people who prefer podcasts are just
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going to go to podcast anyway, whether it's on YouTube at the
31:06
same time. And the people who prefer
31:08
YouTube, which is we get more views on YouTube, are just going
31:14
to wait for it to hit YouTube and would prefer to not need to
31:17
wait. And the negative of doing it,
31:22
how we're doing it now is that things are less timely, like,
31:29
like when this hits YouTube one week from today, this, this, you
31:35
know, PSA raising prices thing is like very old news.
31:40
Very. Old news, maybe we should test
31:42
it and post it to both locations tomorrow morning.
31:47
Friday morning or Saturday morning?
31:50
Either way, Saturday, sure, whatever.
31:53
Just see how it does do. You think there's any science to
31:58
when videos are posted? Like what's?
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For sure. Yeah, there's 100%.
32:03
There's definitely a science to it.
32:05
Like my audience. If I post one of my videos at
32:08
noon, part of it is when they're on YouTube, but also part of it
32:13
is that I've trained my audience.
32:14
But I'm going to post a video at 5:00 PM.
32:19
We have done, I think 9:15 AM Eastern Time every Saturday for
32:25
podcasts and Thursday on the video, right?
32:29
Correct. And I post videos on Mondays and
32:34
Wednesdays at 10:15 AM Eastern for my regular and then I almost
32:41
always, not always, always, but almost always on Friday post
32:45
when it's 7:15 Pacific, 10, 10:15 Eastern.
32:51
And and there's definitely something to a routine.
32:55
It's feel like, oh, it's this day.
32:56
Like I know, like I know when I wake up Sunday morning, you're
33:00
clearing the bases episode is going to already be live.
33:05
And as I'm waking up and I'm getting ready and dressed, I
33:08
usually will put that on and and hear about the stuff because
33:12
you're very active in the Twitterverse.
33:14
I'm very not active. So a lot of the stuff that
33:17
you're hearing about, they're like, I'm not as news up to date
33:21
on news as you as you are, because a lot of that is
33:24
happening rapidly on Twitter, which I have no presence there.
33:28
I mean, I think I have an account, I have a handle, but I
33:32
don't know if I have messages there and people reached out to
33:34
me. I'm apologize because I I'd
33:36
never go on it. So I'm down.
33:42
If you want to switch it up, I'm I'm completely cool switching it
33:46
up. It's worth track.
33:48
OK, so starting Saturday, so this would be is it Val?
33:53
What day is Valentine's Day? It is.
33:56
Yeah, it is. How do the?
33:58
Kids do this Saturn Valentine's Day I I'm going to be away from.
34:04
All trying to make hearts. There you go.
34:07
I'm going to be away from all three of my Valentine's at a
34:11
card show about 500 miles away from them.
34:18
More than that. And so that's what kind of
34:21
Valentine I am. All right.
34:23
So I guess Saturday, we're going to go ahead and give this a
34:27
shot. So if you were used to seeing
34:30
this on Thursdays on YouTube, ain't happening at least.
34:35
And and again, tell us down below in the comments, do you
34:37
like this? Do you not like it?
34:39
I have a feeling YouTube people would prefer that and.
34:43
I well, the yeah, sorry, the proof will be in the pudding, as
34:48
the kids say. I'm thinking kids ever said
34:49
that. You know Sam.
34:51
Cosby would say that. Oh.
34:53
Geez, how many listens will we get?
34:58
How many downloads in the podcast will we get versus
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YouTube? And did we skew it the other
35:04
way? So yeah, we'll we'll find out.
35:07
I think it's worth a try. Yeah, yeah.
35:12
And I, I will say this, I about three months ago, I started
35:16
posting my Midlife Q&A Wednesday episodes on Sundays.
35:23
I post it and they do well on podcast.
35:25
But I, I genuinely have noticed that my views on YouTube are a
35:30
little lower because I think on podcast I, I shouldn't even be
35:36
saying this out loud because I'm just kicking myself in the nuts.
35:39
But on on YouTube, there are going to be commercials, but if
35:44
you listen to it on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, you can listen
35:49
to it without all those interruptions.
35:52
And so I think a lot of people say I'd rather just wait four
35:54
days and not have to have all these interruptions.
35:57
But my advice is buy YouTube Premium.
35:59
It's like the best $15.00 a month I spend.
36:03
Yeah, I don't, I don't have YouTube Premium and and people
36:07
would probably be. Surprised pay for it for you.
36:08
I'll just send you $180 a year and then you could have it.
36:13
Thank you. I think people will be surprised
36:15
to learn that other than a very small sponsorship from Chris
36:20
Dewell, we make gnome on this channel and we would like to,
36:24
but we're not like we're not having meetings gone.
36:26
We got to make money. We're we're trying to build
36:30
something. So if people go and listen to
36:32
this on a podcast, there is 0, literally 0 revenue from that,
36:37
which we're OK with. We are OK with that and we do it
36:41
because we like it. But it is a lot of work and I
36:44
know that people want to be entertained for free, but there
36:50
are expenses that go along with some of this stuff.
36:53
It would be a nice if we could at least like, like I have to
36:56
have the highest in my area. I have to have the highest
37:00
Internet, whatever connection, like I, yeah, I have like fiber
37:05
optic cable, like the high speed, highest high speed thing,
37:08
so that when I do this, I don't freeze because I wouldn't want
37:11
to be that guy, you know? And so I, I pay a lot more for
37:17
Internet than I did before I did this.
37:19
It would just be nice to have some of that stuff covered.
37:22
I mean, we could do like a Patreon group, but then it's
37:25
like then we're those guys to do a Patreon group, you know?
37:28
So it's like, I don't know, all right, well, we'll give it a
37:31
shot. And if you're out there
37:33
listening and you're looking to, you know, sponsor a, a, a show
37:38
on YouTube slash podcast, we'd love to hear from you.
37:43
Absolutely. I did want to circle back to the
37:46
weekend of Mike because this is very, very important weekend of
37:49
Mike. You had mentioned I'll probably
37:51
eat a lot of junk food and that is more true than you could
37:54
possibly know. I, I stocked up because I don't
37:56
have a vehicle. So I was like, well, we got to
37:57
make sure I have enough junk food and I kind of hid it a
38:03
little bit, but my wife still found it.
38:05
And she's, she's like pulling it out of the bag and she, she just
38:12
looks at me like she's just disgusted with me.
38:14
And I laughed and she's just like.
38:17
Can I guess what some of the things would?
38:20
Because I see you as like a Red Vines guy.
38:22
You don't like Red Vines? No.
38:25
No, absolutely not. So are you a salty, crunchy like
38:29
Doritos kind of guy? Or when you say junk food, we're
38:32
not getting like Chips Ahoy or something, right?
38:35
No, I, I, I like Chips Ahoy, but it's not something I would ever
38:38
choose. If you have, if you haven't, I'm
38:40
over at your house, hang out messing around with cards and
38:43
you had some Chips Ahoy. I would 100% eat them.
38:47
But I'm a chips and dip guy, and I went a little off the beaten
38:52
track this time. I went with Tostitos and some
38:57
salsa con queso, which I haven't done in many, many years.
39:02
Normally it's like Ruffles and French onion tip, which I love.
39:08
But I also got a a Ben and Jerry's impressively,
39:13
impressively fudged, which is, yeah, so good.
39:16
Never heard of that one. Yeah, and we got pizza from I
39:20
got. I got pizza from Portland Pie
39:22
tonight. Portland Pie is The Maine
39:24
probably the best. I'm going to get some comments
39:27
that people say or it's auto. Auto sucks.
39:31
That's another pizza place. Portland pie is the best in
39:33
Maine. It's just very expensive and I
39:35
don't do it very often. Has Dave Portnoy rated this
39:41
place? He has not done Portland pie.
39:43
He has been to Maine. I think he rated the place like
39:47
a nine nine out of 10 or 9. Does it rate them on a 10 point
39:51
scale? I never.
39:52
Yeah, but ten's not real. Like like a really good pizza is
39:56
like 8.2. OK, there was a place, I don't
40:00
remember the name of it, but it it got insanely popular after,
40:03
which they do, and it was in Portland, but it wasn't Portland
40:07
Pie. And by the way, when you rate a
40:11
pizza, you never go with seven or eight or nine.
40:16
You always have to do a point something because it's a rookie
40:19
score. If you say, I'll give it a 7,
40:21
like that's a rookie score that that shows, no, your palate
40:25
isn't really that good. You're you're a very simple
40:27
person. It would be like a a 7.3 would
40:31
would show that you're actually a connoisseur.
40:36
I am A7 kind of guy. I'm very like if you put.
40:43
Near Mint to mint. Yeah, I don't know.
40:47
I'm I'm a very simple guy, Greg. I guess I'd be near mint.
40:52
Yeah, I'm a very simple guy and I like it that way.
40:56
No. Yeah, simple's good.
40:57
I mean, simple has pros and cons, All right.
41:01
So this is a big episode. We've made a major shift in our
41:05
posting strategy. We've talked about lemonade
41:09
stands and the economics involved in them.
41:14
We've you completely destroyed stream yard.
41:18
I mean, I'm surprised that they haven't taken down our whole
41:20
account at this point. I mean there was there was a lot
41:24
that was accomplished. We do have a couple of ideas up
41:28
our sleeve for the Sports Card Clubhouse network which you and
41:35
I need to talk a little bit about, but more might be coming
41:38
soon. And if you haven't yet gone to
41:41
the Sports Card Clubhouse website and checked out the
41:45
current poll, there is a pull up.
41:48
So don't forget to check that out as long as well as the hot
41:51
list as well as if you're hearing this right now, there's
41:54
still time to go to the sports car clubhouse.
41:56
Go to the midlife tab and upload your favorite pick up from the
42:01
month of January. The deadline is coming up soon
42:04
for that. So a lot going on at the at the
42:06
clubhouse headquarters, at the clubhouse, clubhouse.
42:10
Yeah, I just went and I voted for most famous sports card on
42:13
sportscardclubhouse.com. And it's, there's some good
42:17
choices, some that people will roll their eyes at, others that
42:21
people will very much debate. So we'll yeah, there's maybe
42:25
soon. There's a little New England
42:28
bias in here, for sure. Well, I got 2 New Englanders in
42:32
the group. I mean, what are we doing?
42:35
1987 tops. Ellis Burks is not in there.
42:38
Next week when we talk, I'll have some great stories about
42:43
the West Coast Card Show because there are some good folks that
42:49
that I get to hang out with this weekend, so that's going to be
42:51
fun. Nice.
42:53
All right, bud, another one in the books was this.
42:56
I think this was episode 2121 of Sports Card Clubhouse.
43:00
Look at how far we've come. And you've done all of them.
43:04
What do you mean no? I missed one.
43:08
I missed the one with Keating. Keating was my replacement one
43:10
week. Oh, that's right.
43:13
That's right, Tony replaced you once and Jake replaced you once.
43:18
Yeah. So but hey, we're still batting
43:21
pretty good, so I'm down. All right, everybody again in
43:25
the comments, seriously, let us know what do you think about
43:27
this little shake up? Because this is this is a big
43:30
deal for us. So let us know.