Grading — Cardboard Police

September 30, 2026

CGC Opened Grading Drop-Offs at 20 FYE Stores — Not One of Them in a City on PSA's Lids List

CGC has put its grading intake behind the counter at 20 FYE stores. The announcement came on September 25, four days after ICv2 reported that PSA had done the same thing with 50 Lids stores, a program this blog covered as CASE #0335. Two major card g...

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CASE #0347 Informational

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September 30, 2026

PSA Filmed the Grading of Two Jordan Ultimate Collection Logoman 1/1s — Later Editions of the $2.928 Million 2003-04 Card

CARDBOARD POLICE PSA posted "Behind The Scenes: Grading Two of Michael Jordan's Most Valuable Cards" to its own YouTube channel, PSA Official, on September 29. It is a grading company filming its own grading room, and the two cards on the table are...

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CASE #0348 Informational

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September 28, 2026

Beckett Shut Base and Standard Grading Again Less Than Two Weeks After Reopening — and This Time There's No Date

Beckett has stopped taking new Base and Standard grading submissions again, less than two weeks after it reopened them. This time the notice carries no reopening date. It carries a policy instead. The company's grading FAQ, still live on September 2...

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CASE #0344 Informational

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September 24, 2026

PSA's App Now Tracks Cards It Has Never Graded — the Third Move in Ten Days Aimed at the Decision to Submit

PSA's app will now keep track of a card PSA has never touched. On September 23 the company rolled out a reworked Collection experience that accepts ungraded cards alongside slabs, puts a running estimated value on the whole pile, and lets a collector...

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CASE #0338 Informational

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September 23, 2026

PSA Took Its Grading Intake Into 50 Lids Stores — and the Counter Staff Handle the Shipping

PSA has started taking grading submissions off the mail truck and onto a mall counter. The company's new program, called PSA GO, lets a customer walk into a participating Lids store, hand a Lids employee their cards, and let the store handle everythi...

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CASE #0335 Informational

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September 17, 2026

Sports Card Investor Graded the Same Cards at PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC — and PSA and CGC Do Not Publish the Same Top Grade

CARDBOARD POLICE On September 13, Sports Card Investor published a video titled "I Graded the SAME Cards with PSA, BGS, CGC & SGC... The Results Were SHOCKING." It is a familiar argument, and the four companies' own published documents explain ...

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CASE #0328 Informational

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September 16, 2026

The 1989 Griffey Rookie Is the First Card to Pass 200,000 Graded Copies — and PSA Alone Holds About Two-Thirds of Them

The 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr. rookie is the first trading card ever to pass 200,000 graded copies. Collector Nation reported the milestone on September 16, and framed it the way the number deserves: no card in any sport, and nothing in the Pok&...

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CASE #0323 Informational

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September 14, 2026

Beckett Has Been Offline for Five Days, and Its Grading Reopening Is Scheduled for Tomorrow

Beckett Collectibles is scheduled to reopen its two cheapest grading tiers tomorrow. As of today, collectors cannot reach any Beckett website to submit a card at any price. Since 7 p.m. Central on September 9, every Beckett site and the company's mo...

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CASE #0320 Informational

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September 13, 2026

PSA Opens a $59.99 Standard Tier on September 14 — and Its Own Reopening Target Is Still 4.9 Million Cards Away

PSA is reopening a door on September 14 — just not the one collectors have been waiting at since June. The company announced on September 9 that a new service level called Standard will open that Monday at $59.99 per card, with an estimated 90 to 100...

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CASE #0317 Informational

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September 05, 2026

Slabnomics Looks for Early Warning Signs in the 2026 Card Market — Video of the Day

CARDBOARD POLICE On September 1, Slabnomics published Swimming Naked: Early Warning Signs in the 2026 Card Market. The title borrows a line usually attributed to Warren Buffett — that you only find out who has been swimming naked when the tide goes...

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CASE #0310 Informational

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Tagged: Grading

CGC Opened Grading Drop-Offs at 20 FYE Stores — Not One of Them in a City on PSA's Lids List

PSA Filmed the Grading of Two Jordan Ultimate Collection Logoman 1/1s — Later Editions of the $2.928 Million 2003-04 Card

Beckett Shut Base and Standard Grading Again Less Than Two Weeks After Reopening — and This Time There's No Date

PSA's App Now Tracks Cards It Has Never Graded — the Third Move in Ten Days Aimed at the Decision to Submit

PSA Took Its Grading Intake Into 50 Lids Stores — and the Counter Staff Handle the Shipping

Sports Card Investor Graded the Same Cards at PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC — and PSA and CGC Do Not Publish the Same Top Grade

The 1989 Griffey Rookie Is the First Card to Pass 200,000 Graded Copies — and PSA Alone Holds About Two-Thirds of Them

Beckett Has Been Offline for Five Days, and Its Grading Reopening Is Scheduled for Tomorrow

PSA Opens a $59.99 Standard Tier on September 14 — and Its Own Reopening Target Is Still 4.9 Million Cards Away

Slabnomics Looks for Early Warning Signs in the 2026 Card Market — Video of the Day