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Beckett closes Base and Standard again, a week after reopening them
Beckett is changing course week by week. That is not how a company in control behaves.
Collectors refiles to end the antitrust case. Beckett's own terms are still offline.
No ruling before 11 December. Beckett wants its terms enforced while they are offline.
PSA's backlog is down to 9 million. At this pace, the Value threshold is late November.
At PSA's current pace, the 5 million threshold for Value arrives around late November.
CGC posts a record month as the market's last major independent keeps growing
CGC keeps growing as Collectors-owned SGC keeps shrinking
Beckett's rebuild looks like recovery, not a plan
Until Beckett gives a date and says plainly whether customer data was involved, do not send it cards.
TAG's backlog is down 85% from peak, but Basic and Standard are still closed
Progress is real, but nothing reopens until October at the earliest — if then.
Golden's slab looks like Beckett's. Only one of them travels.
Buy the card, not the holder — and price a Golden slab as a nice case.
A collector's Beckett data-breach suit vanished the week the site went dark
The lawsuit vanished exactly when Beckett's site did — with no explanation for either.
BGS is grading again. Beckett.com still isn't.
Submissions reopened on a generic form-builder. Beckett's own site is still dark.
PSA and Collectors now face three lawsuits, two of them alleging fraud
Collectors' PSA/SGC/Beckett rollup is now defending three separate suits, none decided.
Beckett said it was upgrading software. Then everything went dark.
There is a boring explanation for this. Beckett's silence is what makes people doubt it.
Beckett expects to reopen Base and Standard on 15 September
If it holds, the BGS entry price drops from $79.95 to $14.95 — but it is an estimate from 5 August, not a confirmation.
PSA opens a $59.99 tier on 14 September, and it is not Value coming back
The cheap route back in is $59.99 and it queues behind everything already in the building.
PSA opens Frankfurt to EU submissions on 15 September
EU submitters stop paying the international shipping tax on every order.
SGC triples its base grading price, and its cheap-and-fast pitch goes with it
Re-run the maths on any submission under $200 — the floor moved to $50.