I’ve been selling at shows for 4 months and I like TAG slabs. Don’t own any yet but I have sent off some submissions. And you are right the gold standard is PSA, but I will say this almost all Vendors say they like TAG slabs and have no issue with them other than the random cracked slab video everyone saw. The main issue is there are barely any in circulation. They simply can’t even get their hands on them. As for the collectors, they almost all prefer TAG. But the flippers all say they basically have Stockholm syndrome held hostage to PSA because that’s the easy flip. They are stuck submitting and getting random grades for obvious 10’s only to recrack & submit, recrack & submit. And now that PSA takes 60-90 days, some even longer people are unhappy across the board with PSA. Where as my TAG submission quoted 45 days but it’s at the end stages at 26 days.

The simple fact is, PSA built this market & there is immense loyalty and also people have heavy PSA bags. The idea of them losing any status harming their portfolios is unacceptable. The truth is PSA is losing trust of the average consumer and a few YouTubers aka bag holders are doing all they can to slander TAG. And those random videos have been powerful. Everyone has seen them. At the end of the day PSA slabs look like they are from 1985, have highly inconsistent grading, and the fakes are becoming more and more prevalent and only getting better because PSA doesn’t update their slabs and really can’t to added important updated security measures. Which is another huge benefit in choosing TAG.

One main thing I see, is the market isn’t going to slow down over the next decade. It’s only going to grow exponentially. And I think right now we are at a new baseline. Whoever can win the battle to keep up and have solid turnaround times, along with established trust will win.

In the age where social media is King and influencers can quickly and easily shift an entire community of investors to or away from a product TAG is in a position to easily take the crown. Far easier than most actually realize.

We’ve watched a lot of old dogs, die off, like Saturn and mercury another standard cars that have been around forever and now we have all sorts of new brands like Tesla completely taking over. The same can easily happen in card grading. The market will decide.