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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.

SGC's argument was never that it graded more strictly than PSA. It was that it was cheaper and faster. At $50 and beyond 40 business days it is neither, and it is now owned by the same company as the grader it used to undercut.

By Cardboard Journal, 3 SepRead our full analysis

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