micky 8

On 1/21/2022 at 3:25 PM, JohnBurke said:

Left side- No other surface flaws

Thanks

i always go by a significant ding 6 or a 7 its on the back so maybe a 7.5-8 hard to tell how much you get hit for something on the back csg grading scale isnt super clear on the backs good luck, it you sub this can you follow up with a post of the grade? 

On 1/28/2022 at 3:28 PM, Zach813 said:

“Coaches Ticket” ?

”Adam Mainwright” ??

Hopefully this didn’t happen to anyone else but wouldn’t be surprised if it did.
 

Waste of money and time. Offered “credit” for the “mechanical error”

guy on youtube did a csg vid took him 7 days to get label corrected, all companies screw up the label sometimes 

On 1/27/2022 at 8:11 AM, BigRob. said:

wont happen anytime soon  , csg has already said they have no plans to chane the label 

really where did ya see that? honestly kinda concerned bout a flip change I dont mind the current flip that much but dont wanna sub some of my more high end cards and have an outdated flip I really dont wanna pay or resub for a new flip 

On 1/24/2022 at 10:55 PM, micky 8 said:

shoutout to tenclubcards who does these sales comparisons weekly, csg isnt always the highest seller but a good amount of the time for higher valued cards like these, hopefully csg strategy is paying off! keep in mind some of the sales are earlier or later then others, the market changes fast but csg gets higher values alot ,  goodluck! 

On 1/20/2022 at 10:55 PM, Mg23 said:

No. I was gonna list it for 1500 but I’ll give you first shot at it.  

i appreciate it thats an increblibly fair offer just not a great time for me this month, but you should really grade and authenticate it for your own good, edges are chipped but its still kinda sharp looks like it could be a 5 give or take and if its close to a 5 your lookin at alot more then $1500 and ya'll feel better about it knowing %100 its real even tho im pretty certain its real, I probably read hundreds of articles on fake jordans and youtube vids before buying my 87" jordan has the same back n tell tale signs. thanx tho good luck i'd grade n keep if I were you Jordans only going up with his legend! 

Just wanted to say thanx csg for making registry so simple, I had no intention of using it but took a picture front of back of a slab was debating on selling, csg QR and csg site popped up on my phone after flicking the back, 2 more clicks and entering my name I had a registry set!! Super Easy to use and track your cards!! cant wait to add to it 

On 11/20/2021 at 3:15 PM, Mg23 said:

Make me a fair offer

did you ever sub this? 

On 12/17/2021 at 4:47 PM, Finster said:

I hear you -- Don't feel bad -- I just got 2 orders back with over 300 cards.  I will be cracking over 200 of them out of their worthless holders!!!

 

I have been grading cards since the 90s -- nobody has tried to insult my intelligence like this in a long time.   Lots and lots of 7.5s and 8.5s -- and cards that should have been easy 9s or higher.  Out of 128 cards in my last order --- 4 cards earned better than an 8.5 --- and NONE abouve a 9!  This is from a company who has 3 grades above a 9! 

maybe your eye isnt as good as ya think i watched hundreds of csg reveals and been gettin my own cards graded there might be 1 or 2 dissappointing grades but for the most part you can see where ya got hit especially if ya get subgrades ya got 124 cards of less then 8.5's that is crazy!! and your plan is to crack all 124 cards under 8.5 and get all grades above 9? If you do that successfully I will give you my entire collection! no wildly_fanciful_statement but you said 200 cards your cracking and resending if you get a grade above for all them cards ill give you my collection! 🤝 maybe give me a decent card if ya fail after all im puttin up alot ( and ya gotta sub to a major company not some acronym no one heard of) 

On 11/24/2021 at 6:45 PM, bball8418 said:

Every card I have seen has been graded way too hard on surface. If this keeps up what's the point of losing money on every card just to get "tough" (overgraded) cards to submit with another company or not get any value out of. I have 2 cards I submitted and 2 I have bought on eBay, all 9's and I can't find anything wrong with them. If they are doing 30x magnification that's way to much! These are the best slabs on the market for clarity and feel. But overgrading cards just to not seem overly easy is garbage and is effecting peoples resale value in a very bad way. The majority of people get cards graded to help with resale value and 9's aren't selling for even raw prices.

greening is a tuff pill to swallow, cant believe someone on this chat heard of it, thanx for the update I was curious what brought that down, resell prices for csg are going up a little especially for higher value cards theres evidence that csg's strategy of tuffer grading is working a little check out a youtuber who compares slab prices csg is selling for substantially higher then psa n sgc but mostly for cards over 5G's but itll trickle down to lower end cards eventually, hopefully 

On 1/11/2022 at 12:19 PM, CubFan said:

Yeah, that's why I would love to get the card graded by CSG.  Anyone have any advice for cracking open a slab without damaging it?

should be easy i seen a few guys crack an hga slab with there bare hands but a pair of channel locks or plyers to the flip should do it, I would watch video on cracking bgs slab similiar slabs with hga, good luck! 

On 1/4/2022 at 11:43 AM, brentpearson said:

10s SHOULD be hard to get.  We're talking about a nearly perfect card here.  Do those of you complaining know how few cards are actually "gem mint" straight out of a pack -- from any era?  Also, don't you want your gem mint cards to hold value?  Handing out 10s like candy is a sure way to kill value.  I actively buy CSG cards because of the fact that the grading is so strict.  I know I am most likely getting a tightly graded card.

 

Honestly, the complaining about CSG NOT over-grading your cards is silly. 

csg's stategy is working theres a youtube channel that compares prices between graders csg is consistently getting higher value then psa and sgc for the same grade mostly high value cards because collectors who are droppin a few grand on a card want a card graded accurately, one example was a Wilt Chamberlin rc csg 4 another psa 4 and sgc 4 csg sold for around 2000 more, its early too csg only been grading sports a year thats good news for csg slab holders 

On 12/13/2021 at 11:17 AM, ne1seenmykeys said:

I have gotten a 114-card submission back with 14 CSG 10s

I have also gotten an 78-card submission back that had 10 CSG 10s

You all are clearly not turning in cards that are 10-worthy, or just don't know how to review cards before turning them in, bc CSG definitely gives 10s. You can go on eBay right now and there are lots and lots of them. 

Some of these were from as early as 2017 (Bowman Draft Ronald Acuna, where I got 3 10s out of 12 of those cards submitted), too, so my advice would be to watch some videos on YouTube on how to pre-grade cards bc I didn't even pre-grade mine and got these 10s lol.  

right! dont matter how many ya get graded if your not screening or sending in centered mint cards, i watch a few youtubers that do csg reveals and they call almost every card accuratly, these guys predict the grade and know exactly why with every single card, people get in there heads graders just make the grades up for some larger agenda, finding perfectly centered cards isnt easy and thats just one catagory, 10s are more valuable because perfect cards are rare!! some brands of cards are a 7 before the pack is even opened, i opened a pack of 2021 select looked like i pulled them out of garbage disposal 

On 12/30/2021 at 11:34 AM, CubFan said:

Working on a specific collection... '77-'84 Topps NFL Hall of Famers... getting all the Rookie Cards graded.

I buy a 2 tom brady cards every week! from rookies to 2013, every refractor several 2002's and 2003s, Im buying as much Brady as i can afford,  He really is the GOAT you can see his cards go up 50-100$ almost every 2 weeks, sending them all into csg soon his cards are gonna be impossible to get soon!!  just my strategy

On 12/28/2021 at 8:04 PM, Jonathan mullins said:

I just got back two subs back from PSA. They are not giving 10 gem mints like they used too. I only got 4 10 gem mints and a bunch of 9s and 8s vintage and modern cards. Nat Turner don't just give 10s like Joe Orlando did. I heard guys in my PSA sub group said they should have sent in there cards 3 years ago just to get 10s. 

i seen some psa reveals lately there Gem rate isnt much higher then csg, there a little more lenient on centering but there not the easy 10 like they were 35% on ultra modern, csg is 26% on ultra modern but csg has an 8.5 grade those nuances and accuracy matter in terms of value and ya know exactly what your getting as a buyer 

On 12/27/2021 at 8:33 AM, TheRealKyleMcC said:

Looks like someone put those CSG slabs in a protective sleeve, and is not a new slab itself.

thanx i thought that might be the case, i was like NOOO! the  clear slab is the best part about csg maybe a border on the flip but leave the slab alone 

Are these new slabs with a shorter flip?? Anyone else see these before?  any info seen this reveal and was kinda shocked 

On 9/2/2021 at 2:12 PM, Shockmaster said:

I would say do what makes you happy and have no regrets. If you're questioning to grade them, then grade them. Whatever grade they can back in, I think you'll be pleased wirh the CSG slab 

agree i like csg for vintage slab looks good and there not crazy harsh, i watched a bunch of sgc reveals n csg, csg isnt any harsher on sgc wit the vintage n like ya said if your grading to preserve n look nice csg cheaper too 

On 12/18/2021 at 6:01 PM, micky 8 said:

this was a study done by a youtuber this doesnt include patch cards because there too hard to grade but the gem mint rate is 10% lower then psa not that bad, this includes mostly modern cards for csg and all cards for psa, All modern psa 10's i would assume around 60-70% if ya know how to screen your cards well. I personally prefer an accurate grader like csg but you can definantly see the upside for flippers with psa. hope this helps 

On 12/13/2021 at 11:35 AM, ne1seenmykeys said:

Sounds to me like your system needs an update and/or reboot.

Can you provide evidence that you get an 80% gem rate with PSA/SGC? I can almost guarantee you can not. ALso, a 30% Gem Rate with CSg sounds awfully high, so can you provide evidence you get that rate as well? 

I'll wait. 

On 12/18/2021 at 9:47 AM, Sports Cards Review said:

I would assume we don't see videos about perfect because there aren't that many to compare to. I asked about 2 months ago and they said less than 50. I'm sure it has increased since then, but less than 50 From Feb to October is pretty crazy considering the volume.

wow thats crazy and you got 3 of em! 

On 12/14/2021 at 8:12 PM, magiconlineshop said:

OK so I got a 2.  it's a keeper card in my collection, so I'm not complaining, I think it looks great in the slab.  I expected low grade... The card does have some color missing off the back bottom corner and a small weird non ripply type defect on the center right of the front (no dents, just a slight raised type line you can see if you hold it right) 

So just for sake of research I punch OPC MARIO LEMIEUX CSG 2 into eBay and low and behold there's another graded a 2!!  I look at it, and omg, it looks like it was stored in someones back pocket for a day or 2 before ending up on the laundry room floor face down until mom stepped on it and put it back in little Timmys shoe box. I guess I was just surprised at the visual discrepency of the same grade especialy the corners being so rounded and dented on the other card, as well as the massive surface damage that is visible. 

So my question is...  is a grade of 2 just a number that you pretty much can get to pretty easily, but it will only go 1 if there is like a tear or something?   I have never graded cards before, and overall I have been very happy to see a lot of the grades on my older personal collection of vintage cards, and again they look great in these CSG slabs.  I honestly can't wait to display in my office and man cave.  I can always cover the numerical grade with a happy face sticker =)

Here is my card: https://www.csgcards.com/certlookup/1010213012/
Here is the ebay graded 2: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185214800374

Mine is on the left, whatcha think?   I think it's a dang nice 2, lol... Have a great holiday!

 

Oh here's another funny thing from my submission:  I sent in my seperated Bird/Magic rookie thinking it would look great in a slab, I had it all put together with a note to please keep it together in the correct order and that I figured it would be a CSG 1 or lower if possible since it was in 3 pieces.  I have seen other slabs with the the pieces in there arranged tight and it looks great (im not a condition sensitive collector) when I got my grades back I saw extra charges and more cards on the invoice than I submitted... so upon further investigation...Boom - a 3 for 1- hahah, Im not even mad, this is hilarious, cost me an extra 2 submission fees, but I think it's gonna look interesting on the wall!

The other Bird I submitted had excrutiating centering, but I pulled that card out of a pack at a card show at the Fashion Center in San Francisco in early 90's so it has centimental value.  I opened two 86 Fleer packs at that same show (I think they were like $50 ea) and pulled a Barkley and an Olajuwon sticker which I sent in as well.  My submission was basically a bunch of cards I pulled back in the day including my 52 Topps Mantle.... see below!  Fun stuff, thanks CSG!

 

52 Mantle??? HAHAHA .. made you look...
But this 1996 case insert will still look great for my office display.

A bunch of my other fav cards from my first submission:

THANKS CSG & Happy Holidays to all! 

 

really nice ricky henderson thats a really great grade for that card ya dont see too many in that good a condition, congatulations great classic cards 

On 12/17/2021 at 7:25 PM, Sports Cards Review said:

I too am a bit curious to how many perfects there are. I have 3 of them along with 25 Pristine. Knowing will certainly help value. These Rookies should be worth something not only for who it is, but how old they are.

 really nice cards!! hopefully a pop report comes out soon alot of curious customers csg 10's seem to sell very good, a guy on you tube compares grader sales of cards and the csg 10 does very well and there pristine 10s i never seen a perfect 10 get compared to other sales but i would put it up well over a psa 10 

seriously? cause psa is $150 a card right now! that and it depends on whether or not your grader got laid the night before, or wait over a year to get cards back and technically someone on youtube did a study showing csg gemmints 9.5 almost as much as psa gemmints i think 35% psa 10s and 27% csg 9.5s not much of a difference and no one is putting a gun to your head sub with whoever ya want