What Is PSA Vault?

PSA Vault is a storage and resale program run by Collectors, PSA's parent company: a graded card gets authenticated, stored in an insured facility, and can be relisted or transferred to another owner without ever being reshipped. PSA built it by buying eBay's card-vaulting operation outright in May 2024, so PSA Vault isn't just a competitor to eBay Vault — it's the facility that now physically holds cards sent into eBay Vault, while also being reachable directly through PSA and Collectors' own apps.

• May 2024 — PSA acquires eBay's vault operation. Collectors bought the physical vault infrastructure eBay had been using to store graded cards, rebranding the underlying service as PSA Vault.
• June 2024 — PSA Vault launches.PSA president Ryan Hoge described the pitch as one-click: once a submitted card is graded, it can be listed on eBay, held in the vault, or shipped back — without a separate shipment in between.
• March 2025 — grading partnership expands. PSA and eBay broadened how sellers can route cards into grading and storage directly from an eBay listing flow.
• October 2025 — raw-card vaulting opens up. Individual, non-autographed raw cards priced at $250 or more (with two or more listing photos) became eligible to go straight into the vault after authentication, not just already-graded cards. Sets, lots, multi-quantity listings, wet-signed autographs, and pre-1998 autographs are excluded.

PSA Vault doesn't charge an ongoing holding fee. The one fee to know is a flat $5 withdrawal charge if a card is pulled out of the vault before it's been in for 90 days. PSA has said cards under $500 make up most of what it grades, so the vault is built to handle high volume at modest per-card values, not just five- and six-figure slabs.

In practice, these are two names layered on the same underlying storage system rather than two separate vaults. eBay Vaultis the storefront: it's where a buyer or seller interacts with a vaulted card inside eBay's listing and checkout flow, and it's the term eBay uses in its own help docs. PSA Vaultis the operator and the direct entry point: a collector can send a card straight to PSA for grading and vaulting through PSA/Collectors' own site or app, with no eBay listing required until they actually want to sell. Since PSA owns the physical facility either way, a card vaulted through eBay and a card vaulted directly through PSA are sitting in the same kind of storage — the difference is which front door was used to get it there.

1. Grading and selling can now be one pipeline.A raw card can go in for grading and come out already listed, without a reshipment back to the owner in between — useful for anyone who grades primarily to resell rather than to keep.
2. The 90-day withdrawal fee is the only real cost to plan around. Vaulting is close to free if the card either sells inside the vault or stays put for three months; pulling it out early costs a flat $5.
3. PSA's consolidation keeps widening. Collectors also owns Goldin, so PSA-graded cards now sit at the center of grading, auction, and vaulting under one parent company — worth knowing when comparing PSA Vault to a fully independent option.

Confirm the exact card with Identify & Research — free-path first (on-device OCR, catalog match, and fingerprints). For the eBay-branded side of this same vault, see What Is eBay Vault?. For how vaulting works as a category across providers, see What Is Sports Card Vaulting?. For PSA's own grading scale, see What Is PSA Grading?, and for the company behind PSA, see What Is Collectors Holdings?.