Hi, I’m based in Europe but buy and sell cards primarily in the US market. All my cards are stored in the Fanatics Collect (PWCC) vault, and most of them are in PSA slabs. Lately, I’ve been wondering if I should transfer all of them to the PSA vault for a few reasons:
PSA and eBay Collaboration : eBay has much more visibility than PWCC, which could be beneficial for selling cards. The market is also much larger when buying cards. Sales through the PSA seller on eBay appear to offer better pricing from a seller’s perspective.
CGC and Fanatics Collaboration : I’m not a fan of CGC, especially after the controversy with their grading of Alpha/Beta/Delta/whatever playtest cards.
Did some of you make that move from Fanatics to PSA/Ebay ? What do you all think ?
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I have cards, comics and other items in both vaults. Fanatics is excellent because everything is built in, including the ability to transfer to other people’s vaults instantly or to have new purchases on fanatics be in your own vault instantly. It is relatively expensive to send your cards home though. PSA is much much cheaper for withdrawing your cards/shipping and has the built in sales features for eBay. Both have their nice perks. Regardless I wouldn’t ship to PSA vault just yet since they are running very behind due to large intakes recently, according to the CEO
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I am also from Europe and since PSA Vault was released I personally ship everything there because fulfillment fees are $6 fixed for the first 90 days and just $1 after, while Fanatics (PWCC) is 3% market value for the first 90 days and 1% after.
Regarding trying to sell those cards I would also say that PSA Vault gives you more visibility being able to list on eBay directly, maybe for cards that you want to auction it doesn’t matter that much but it definitely does for buy it now listings.
The only thing that I would improve with PSA Vault eBay listings would be add a best offer option for buy it nows since they just allow the default buy it now option, while Fanatics has best offer enabled and you get notified about any
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