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Request: It would be really great if CSG extended the promotion of the reholder discount ($5) for one more month - for international collectors like myself, a lot of us use a US mailing service and only ship back to our home country when we've accumulated a good amount of cards (to save on international shipping).  I have a bunch of CSG 9.5s that will almost certainly not make the June 30th deadline.  Hope CSG will consider this!

@CGCRyan Want to know, if we submit a reholdering request after the promotional $5 offer (i.e. the $10 regular rate) - do all old CSG 9.5s still qualify to new CSG Gem-Mint 10s?  In other words, does the time limited offer affect cross-over rules? 

On 3/28/2022 at 11:15 AM, Glen Campbell said:

I actually don’t have any cards that I feel would qualify to make the jump from 9.0 to 9.5.

I am just trying to make sense of the change.

if 20% of all submissions paid for subgrades, that is approx. 150k cards and roughly $1.5 million in revenue for CSG.  If, rough guess, 30% of old Mint 9.0 should qualify for the new 9.5 Mint+, I think it is that the collectors who already paid a premium to get their cards graded with subs should have to crack and resubmit to get what was already earned.

It really would be as simple as creating a one time conversion chart for cards with sub grades over to the new scale that actually created a space for the 9.5 Mint+.

In regards to me loving my old 9.5s, I am okay with the change to a 10.  I just want it to make sense and right now it doesn’t.

I think the point about the conversion scale with subgrades makes a lot of sense - because of the introduction of the new "Mint+" (new 9.5) grade, there were old green-label 9's that surely would have met the Mint+ (new 9.5) scale.  Whilst there is no perfect solution - at least, for the customers who have submitted with subgrades previously, there is a feasible path forward with available information.

Something like:

If total subgrades of the old label are less than 0.5 off from qualifying for an old 9.5 (Gem-Mint) (for example, 2x 9.5, 2x 9.0) - then these should automatically be mapped to the new 9.5 "Mint+".  Aside from that, they will be map from an old 9 to a new 9.

At least, this seems fair to customers whom have paid for the service of subgrades previously.