Same card, same grade, different grading label? It's become enough to alter the overall value on the secondary market.

I still remember pulling my first rookie card from a pack as a kid. It was the iconic Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck, what a thrill (I still have it)! Fast forward to now, and I have boxes of baseball ...

I still remember pulling my first rookie card from a pack as a kid. It was the iconic Ken Griffey Jr. Upper Deck, what a thrill (I still have it)! Fast forward to now, and I have boxes of baseball ...

The scale of the money spent by the average hobbyist on Collectors brands, particularly PSA, is staggering when analyzing ...

Over the past few years, grading sports cards has become an essential part of this industry. There have been ups and downs with all the companies, but now we are in a place where you have a lot of ...

Professional Sports Authenticator's parent company Collectors purchased Beckett, PSA's longtime rival in the card grading and ...

Collectors, the parent company of trading card grader PSA, reached an agreement to acquire grading competitor Beckett.

For much of its more than three decades of existence, PSA has been one of the leaders — if not the top dog — in its primary category of card grading. But as it expands into grading comics and ...

Given that Victor Wembanyama made a list of the most graded baseball cards earlier this year, it should come as no surprise that collectors are getting his trading cards graded at a rate that far ...

On December 15, 2025, Collectors confirmed the acquisition of Beckett, emphasizing that Beckett will continue to operate as an independent brand. This means that customers can expect the same grading ...

Reaction to the grade on social media was unsurprisingly mixed. Some collectors expressed excitement for the grade for the young fan. Some lamented the speed at which the card was graded while their ...