As the backlog in grading grew and the price tags climbed, some collectors were turning to grading alternatives for PSA. Among the cheaper options? SGC, where you could potentially see your card graded faster and for a fraction of the price at PSA. The trade-off, of course, is that PSA slabbed cards command a healthy premium over other services, but at some point, that trade-off is worth it.
Well, about that. Today SGC announced a significant price increase that’s going to cut into whatever obvious value proposition they were starting to have:
Effective September 2, 2026, SGC will be adjusting its offered service levels in response to rapidly increasing demand and continued expansion of estimated turnaround times. Please visit our standard services and pricing page for the full breakdown: t.co/PcJkwnVjny.… pic.twitter.com/GKq3RACw2n
— SGC (@sgcgrading) September 2, 2026 (via SGC)You can see there, the value proposition of paying to grade lower-value cards just got a lot less obvious. Are you going to pay $50 for the chance at turning your $20 raw card into a $50 SGC 10? Unless you really, really just want the slab, you are not.
As with PSA, the increase in prices is not necessarily exclusively a cash grab, even though, hey, these are rational businesses adapting to an exploding market. So money is ultimately the thing. That said, these increases are at least partly about addressing service concerns, with wait times growing and growing. An increase in prices for grading, especially at the lower tiers, has the twin effect of slowing some of the submission paces, and also allowing SGC to expand their capacity.
What happens when the backlogs at PSA and SGC (to say nothing of CGC or BGS) finally start to come down remains to be seen. Prices in any market rarely pull back once they’ve established themselves, but it’s not inconceivable that these services could re-establish lower-cost, longer-wait-time tiers when they have a better sense of how this market is going to play out in the long-term. Right now, though, everyone is kind of scrambling to deal with demand that is causing disruptions to service, delivery, quality, reliability, and so on and so forth.
The full announcement from SGC:
“Effective September 2, 2026, SGC will be adjusting its offered service levels in response to rapidly increasing demand and continued expansion of estimated turnaround times. Please visit our standard services and pricing page for the full breakdown: gosgc.com/card-grading/services-pricing.
While this measure may be disappointing in the short term, rest assured that we are not standing still, and the steps we are taking are significant. We are aggressively hiring to grow our team, substantially expanding our operational square footage, and investing in new technology and infrastructure, all with one goal in mind: getting your cards back to you faster without sacrificing the quality and accuracy you expect from SGC.
Future adjustments to service levels should be expected between late 2026 and early 2027. We will periodically release updates providing a look into our progress, our future plans and any other necessary information regarding submissions currently in our care.
Servicing our hobby’s essential authentication and grading needs is something we do not take lightly. Thank you for trusting us with your cards and we look forward to what the future holds.”
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