Steve Dietemann

On 3/30/2022 at 3:32 PM, HomeGrownPoke1 said:

I watched a pokemon breaker on twitch last night of the name Phurion show a CGC submission he just received and roughly 13 of the 20 cards in the submission was graded 10.... I feel CGC is trying to pump out a bunch of 10s before they release the population report....

It looks like most of his submissions were JPN cards. Every modern JPN card I sent in was at least a 9, and usually a 9.5. The quality is so much better on them, there's a good chance of them coming back as a 10.

Not sure if you've been grading Pokemon, but if so and they're primarily in English, that may be why. I just got back a 60 card submission that was a mix of ENG and JPN cards. Across the board, the JPN cards scored much higher, including a Yu Nagaba Pikachu which came back as my only 10. The quality control on ENG cards is complete garbage in comparison, so it doesn't matter much if they're pack fresh. They're always going to be off-center with raggedy edges straight out the pack. If CGC's grading scale is taking into account the relatively higher level of quality in JPN cards, that may be why it's nearly impossible to get a 10 on an ENG card. Just something to consider.

I have a 60 card bulk submission, 8 of which have subgrades that was received on October 15th. When could I realistically expect to get them back? My current estimation is some time in July but I'm curious if anyone else has a better idea. Thanks!