PSA grading for canadians

[MrFr3eze]

Hi,

I was looking to get some vintage cards graded by PSA. I live in Canada and I know that PSA charges near 50 $ to ship the cards back. Also, I am wondering about custom fees that I would have to pay whan the cards get back.

Do you have any positive or negative experience to share, about PSA card grading from Canada ?
I know that there's some group submission for Beckett, do you know anyone doing this for PSA ?

Thanks
Fred

[dudical]

I submit about once a month from Toronto. Send me a PM if interested.

[10-4 collector]

Theyre's a group on facebook. Psa sports cards collectors. A guy on the group sends once a month. Received 3 cards back today, no custom fees. The total for 3 cards all together was about 50-60$ can everything included.

[manthis]

paypal
or cash ttm??[
QUOTE=10-4 collector;14231777]Theyre's a group on facebook. Psa sports cards collectors. A guy on the group sends once a month. Received 3 cards back today, no custom fees. The total for 3 cards all together was about 50-60$ can everything included.[/QUOTE]

[10-4 collector]

Paypal. It cost me about 15$ to send to the guy. He charges 7.50$ for his service. Each card was about 6$. The shipping back to me was 5$.

Shipping to him 15$
total cost for grading + his service 31$
Shipping back to me 5$

total roughly 50$ us

[MrFr3eze]

I submit about once a month from Toronto. Send me a PM if interested.

Hi, thank you for the offer. Let's say that I want to get 5 cards graded, what would be the cost including shipping ?

Thanks
Fred

[MrFr3eze]

Theyre's a group on facebook. Psa sports cards collectors. A guy on the group sends once a month. Received 3 cards back today, no custom fees. The total for 3 cards all together was about 50-60$ can everything included.

Thank you, I will check this out.

[dudical]

Hi, thank you for the offer. Let's say that I want to get 5 cards graded, what would be the cost including shipping ?

Thanks
Fred

If you can drop cards off or meet in person, then no shipping :)
Aside from that, it's usually:
$20 each for the first 3 cards if claiming value $250 or less.
Additional cards are less per card down to about $15/card if they are standard trading cards or patch cards. If doing cross grading, tall boy, or packs, we can discuss that at the time as these are usually done a few times a year due to costs or waiting for a big enough submission.

Turnaround time is 4-6 weeks on average. Everything is insured for full value there and back and I take care of duties / fees if they come up. If you have to ship to me, then it is up to you how you ship it, as for return shipping, I ship with tracking and signature back to you. Insurance is optional for that part (up to you).

I can also offer to look over cards for flaws before submitting. No extra cost.

[roy.the.greatest]

Unless it is a $100 card+, in my opinion grading fees at $20/card average (including shipping etc.) are very high for collectors like us. Some store/business doing a LOT of business with bulk submissions to PSA and BGS get way better prices, we talk about $4/card if not less from what I read on some internet forums and I have no difficulty to agree with that with the incredible low prices of some PSA 10 O-Pee-Chee 1980s graded cards offered for sale on eBay for prices that are impossible to compete, especially if we want to have a PSA 10 Gem Mint RC card of an unexpensive card (for example: a Curtis Joseph 1990-91 OPC Premier RC PSA 10 Gem Mint) you will have the card itself (it worth something) as graded Gem Mint in a PSA holder (the grading fees worth something) for less than $15 total card and grading ! A normal collector like us can't compete with that!!!! For a $500 card, a plus or less $20 on a card is a detail, but to get a great copy of an unexpensive rookie card the grading fees are a huge barrier. And few weeks after, we will se the same graded PSA 10 card (unexpensive and sold) with the same serial PSA holder put for sale by PWCC (a third-party eBayer) for a price climbing like it is impossible to explain way higher than the business who offered the graded card for few pesos on eBay few weeks before :-)

[dudical]

If you are international (non-US) you have to pay a minimum of $40+US dollars return shipping for each 'type' of service you get. They are not all combined together in one return shipment as they are graded in different buildings/locations and they don't have the time/space to let orders sit there when they are done, they just ship them.

All service fees are in USD as well (charged to submitter). Annual membership is also $100-$200US. So for someone sending a few cards every now and again, $15-20 Canadian a card is pretty good. No work to do, just give them to someone like me and I fill out the forms, pack, ship, insure and look over the cards before they go. If I think a card shouldn't go then I'll give my opinion, save the $15-20.