Come with me to drop off a PSA submission in JC and vintage hobby pet peeves

What is up, YouTube? I am nearby the PSA office in Jersey City. So, I actually used to live in Jersey City. Um, I forgot how freaking hard it is to park here. Um, but I know the roads pretty well. Thought I'd show you where to go, where to drop off, how it works, etc. Um, parking does suck and I don't recommend parking in one of the structures because it cost a ton of money. There's a lot of spots outside you have to get Park Mobile and it's pretty cheap. But aside from like the snow, which makes it hard for the parking situation, um you can find some spots around the area, but it's a oneway. You do have to park kind of far away. So, just note that. All right, so I'm going to get out of the car, go inside the building, show you where it is. All right, so this is the building. Um, man, brings back memories. I used to come here all the time for like my daughter's events and stuff. If you need to use the bathroom, like you likely you will if you had to uh park for a while, there's a bathroom near the ery. And I believe it's in building three, which is on the left side once you get in. Okay, you just end up getting your badge here and then you go to floor two. Okay, so this is how you take the elevator. You have to hit two. You can't just go to the elevator. There's no buttons there. All right, so I'm back at home. It's actually Friday. Um, sorry the camera angle is a little weird. I made it vertical because I did the uh the videos vertically at PSA and uh I couldn't I didn't want to take too much video in the PSA office. The receptionist I I don't know if you could tell the video. I don't think she was too happy. I thought it'd be weird if I just walked in with my phone and said, "Oh, look at I'm going to record everything." Um, so yeah, I went to PSA around 10:00 a.m. and you have to sign in through a guest list as a visitor and I saw almost 40 or 50 names on there and there were people behind me too going in. So, I don't know. I don't see a slowdown. I I guess maybe the drop offs or the walk-in Wednesdays are a little bit better regardless because um one thing that I did notice and I'm sure most people that have done the walk-in Wednesdays at least to the Jersey City office, I dropped off a bulk submission, a value plus and a value max submission. So, three separate orders, but the bulk submission oddly that one went through really quickly. I dropped it off Wednesday and it's already in research and ID on Thursday. So, one day um which is nuts to me. Uh my other PSA orders took a month and a month and a half respectively once they received it to get to research an ID. Um so if this is the case where it just beats the system and I guess they're forced to research an ID because the cards go inside this like plastic box and uh I guess they have to process the cards. I don't know. Um, but it works with me. So, I'll definitely go back to PSA and I'll try to take I think I can take a little more sneaky footage or videos. I was trying to see if there's any grading rooms off in the distance, but it's probably on a different floor. There's some people on the on the side, but staff was actually very friendly. One thing I did notice too, the lady that was helping me, um, I was asking about one of my orders and she could go in the back system and see, oh yeah, I was processed on such and such days. So you can see well she's basically had more like knowledge as to where it exactly was and when I would most likely get it back by. So hopefully I should be getting an order back soon. So that's exciting. Um but other than that um some other notes uh COMC I sent a 500 card submission to COMC a long time ago and it's finally processing. Sorry I'm part of the backlog for com but it's cool system. I already sold a bunch of cards. Um, the weird thing is it's processing like four or five cards at a time, like every day. So, it's kind of annoying. I have to go in and price the cards. Um, but hey, my cards are processing, so I'll take it. Um, one other thing I want to talk about, uh, pet peeves. So, I have many pet peeves with the sports cards industry or sports cards in general, but this one's specific to vintage cards. So, uh, maybe I'll go over like pet peeves more often, um, or finicky things that just kind of annoy me. So, vintage cards. Um, I've I've seen people say this before and recently someone showed me a Playball Joe Deaggio. Um, it was in an SGC slab, authentic, evidence of trimming, and that person called it good eye appeal. And I feel like eye appeal is getting used a little more loosely these days. Uh, sure it has good eye appeal, but to me, a card that's been altered, especially trimmed, wasn't it trimmed to make the eye appeal appealing? Um, so for me, eye appeal takes into consideration centering first and foremost, color and registration. So coloring being is it just vibrant the color that it should be registration. Are there like pixel issues or sometimes it's kind of uh the way they pallet the cards are two colors. Is it blurry or not? So centering is the most important. And if it's been trimmed what if it's been trimmed where one side was just completely right heavy let's say and they made it look perfect. It's almost like a false eye appeal in a way. I guess one counterargument would be, you know, if a person got rhinoplasty, uh, you know, the after product still looks nice, but that's different with cards. I feel like it's kind of sacred. You shouldn't you're not supposed to really definitely, especially cut or alter the cards in that way. So, to me, I I get a little peeved and annoyed when people say, "Oh, this card is great eye appeal, but it's in an authentic altered trim slab." Um, I don't know. It irks me. Maybe it's a bad take. Let me know what you think. Um, so yeah. Uh, and other than that, I got my Nolan Ryan card coming back soon. Sorry, Jerry Kuzzman rookie card coming back soon. I'm excited for that. I had a really good experience with KOMC. Um, I signed up CGC comics inadvertently. So, I signed up under the CGC comics account because there was a $50 coupon code. Um, and I learned that the comic CGC account and the card CGC account, you can't interchangeably use a credit that you get. So, I signed up under the premium premium account and you get $150 credit. Sent my Nolan Ryan, didn't get a credit, so I was confused. I called customer service and they said, "Yeah, you signed up under comics, but we can credit you the uh the 150 and put your account under the card." So, kind of a cheat code, I guess. You can sign up under CGC comics. Search for like a Google code of like a firsttime subscriber and I got $50 off. So I got $50 off my submission essentially and uh works out. So good experience with CGC. The slabs look nice. We'll get it back. Um I guess it's a bit of a spoiler. It did get slab. So we'll see what it comes back as. Um I did open up a TOPS hobby box. Um, they forgot to put in my 52 mano, but I did pull this guy. Thought it was a Paul Schemes at first, but it's uh, he looks like Paul Schmes, right? Bubba Chandler rookie card auto and a sticker with a slappy auto. That's streaky, but it's cool. I'll take it. All right. Thanks for watching.

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