Super Silver

Many Thanks~!  I sincerely appreciate the info.  Happy HOlidays!

I sent in 32 cards for bulk grading service that were delivered by UPS to CSG on the 12th of November.  They were marked as received by CSG on the 15th.  Today is the 17th business day that the cards have been at CSG and the cards status is still received?  My plan was to get these graded and sell them before Christmas.  It now looks like my plan will go up in smoke.  When I called CSG customer service they were great and told me the 20 day turn around time only counted week day not including holidays.  I'm good with CSG but just curious what the actual current turn times are as I have a great many more early Jordan cards and assorted Rookies I want to send in.  Thanks in advance for your response.

Mark

On 11/22/2022 at 8:08 AM, MattM CS said:

@Super Silver

Thank you for your inquiry.  The value we ask you for is an insurance value, a number you would feel comfortable with in terms of a replacement value if your item was lost or damaged while with us.  Each tier of service covers up to a maximum specified insurance level and you must choose a tier of service that will accommodate the declared value for your item. Services and Fees

We do encourage you to be conservative as we do not reimburse you if you over-value your card. In the event that your card was grossly under-valued, we would contact you to bump the card to a higher grading tier and you would just pay the difference in the grading fees at that time. You can review our Declared Value Policy here:  Declared Value Policy.

Please note, your cards will not be down graded just because they are in the bulk tier. Our graders are aware of the tiers you submit your cards through, but they acurately review each card for its Declared Value at its current condition. 

Let us know if you have any other questions. 

  Just curious why you would inform your graders as to what tier any card was submitted?  Any psychologist would confirm that any preconceived notions whether knowingly or unknowingly would by nature     skew the way an individual perceives and or in this case grades an item.  It would be an interesting study to see how many high grade cards come from the lower vs the higher submitted tiers.  Thank you for your time and consideration.

Mark

I am new to this card grading so I sent in 32 cards in a bulk order.  For example some of these cards were rookies like Deon Sanders, Erik Dickerson, Adrian Peterson, Derek Jeter etc.  The other cards are cool Jordan cards but are not from his first year in the league.  I sent them in to be graded as I truly have no idea what they are worth and want them graded so I then know.  Most of the rookies I stated a $250 value.  Others $100.

So my question is how does this work.  IF the Derek Jeter grades low it is under $100.  If it grades high it is worth $1000 +  

If my cards grade high will I be charged more?  Because I sent them in a bulk lot are they destined to be low grades?  Does the grader even know what tier the card is sent in as?

For the record,  there should be a flat fee to grade a card no matter the grade.  You should have to pay more to get a card graded faster but not for the quality of the card as the job of the grader does not or at least it should not change based on the cards grade.

I look forward to a response. 
Respectfully,

Mark