It has been less than seven months since GameStop began its partnership with PSA to offer trading card submissions, and the game retailer has already graded 1 million cards.
Jordon Fong, a collector from Turlock, California, walked into his local GameStop earlier this year to submit a Pokémon Umbreon card, which turned out to be GameStop’s 1 millionth PSA-graded card through the partnership.
Fong, who got back into the hobby in 2016, received a year of free PSA grading.
In a statement provided to cllct, Fong called it “kind of surreal,” and said he and his brother have “always collected just for the fun of it … most of the cards I’m grading now are ones I’ve had for years — just sitting in a box.”
GameStop currently offers card submissions in 1,360 of its brick-and-mortar locations and plans to add another 280 in June. Pokémon cards are the most submitted via the partnership.
In the fourth quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, collectibles generated $271 million in net sales, up from $171 million the quarter prior, and accounting for 21% of the company’s $1.283 billion net sales for the quarter.
Nat Turner, CEO of Collectors, which owns PSA, joined the board of GameStop in November.
Will Stern is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectibl culture.