Mephisto

@Buzzetta

22 minutes ago, UncSven said:

I think you're missing the point. That cgc 7 above was graded 9.5 centering, yet it is visibly less well centered than the other card which has a 9 on centering. Inconsistent. Arbitrary. That's why PSA never did or will do subgrades, it shows exactly how subjective grading is.

No, I’m not missing anything. Your follow up posts support what I said in my original post. 

1 minute ago, The Nameless One said:

Because I'm a greedy goblin and played a tight margin. I mean, no one touched my bid for two days so I thought I had it covered. I feel like if someone bids at the last second there should be a function which increases the bid time by 20 seconds or whatever. I'm willing to fight but when it comes to raising the bar early it's hard to gauge what exactly I'm willing to pay, especially when I could walk away with a lower price. I'd rather walk the price up as opposed to throw a hail mary in a business transaction, and that's not to say I don't get sniped at the last second regardless. There's no gauge of who wants it more, it seems predicated on luck

Most auctions see the biggest action in the last few seconds. Throw your max bid in a snipping program and let it do the work.

1 hour ago, The Nameless One said:

Why is Ebay so bad!? I lost the Japanese Mew straight up, but that promo Mew... I got sniped at the last second and, by golly, I would've paid more (and tried to). Where's the option to extend the bid? Seems like a defunct bidding platform, the seller loses potential money with this nonsense. I would've paid 100 more for that card, what a scam

So then why didn’t you bid $100 more in the first place? 

 

You guys just need to crack and submit to PSA. Then you can get your 10’s a lot easier and don’t have to worry about subgrades since there is no option to do so with them.

9 hours ago, The Nameless One said:

These boards are a mess, nothing but "where's my package" with slivers of actual enthusiasm towards the hobby

11 minutes ago, Pontoon said:

Unfortunately, there's been a multitude of threads about CGC introducing foreign objects, enough to make you think Larry Zbyszko is on QC.

4 hours ago, C2N0 said:

I don’t think it would be inside the case. All the slabs I’ve received don’t have and lint or residue inside and they do quality control checks before sending them back.  I’m guessing it’s just lint on the outside. 

CGC comics grading also do QC checks but apparently there have been some issues lately with foreign objects inside of the CGC comic cases.

Just now, SilentMonkee said:

Which site is this?  I tried WatchCount, but it just talk about the view page source and search.

https://130point.com/sales/

15 minutes ago, SilentMonkee said:

So ebay is being dishonest or have very bad bug.  This lead to perceive higher market value for items, so item sell for more and ebay get more from sales.

That’s why you have to run it through another site for Best Offer Items. It comes up with the actual amount sold.

7 minutes ago, Yeahiwasder4dat said:

 

I'm not so much angry or upset as I just can't wrap my mind around what's going through their heads at a management level. There's no one and done easy fix, but just about anything is better than sending an unapologetic email that says eat sh*t no refunds we will get too it eventually.

I agree with the management thought process. Some of the stuff being posted by CGC employees leaves me scratching my head. I don’t understand why the top leadership felt the need to have a separate card grading company under the CGC banner for TCG’s Pokémon and Magic and then another company, CSG, for Sports Cards. Neither company appears to have any immediate plans to grade non sports cards such as Marvel or Star Wars cards (or even non TCG Pokémon).  Marvel and Star Wars seem like they would be tailor made for the CGC comics crowd. Hell even most long time CGC comics guys that have wandered over to the the trading card section seem to have more of passing interest in Magic, while most new posters to the trading card section seem to be all about Pokémon...so I just don’t see why TCG games even had to be placed under the CGC banner from a marketing standpoint.

Other then hearing CGC is looking to add Yu-Gi-Oh in the future, I just haven’t seen much else in the way of CGC or CSG branching out to truly become a force in grading. 

If they were a publicly traded company I would be in  “Sell Mortimer, Sell!” mode because I have concerns over CGC/CSG’s desire and ability for exponential growth. People can complain right now about TATs and that expanding to other types of cards would make that worse...but a lot of the reply’s I am seeing from people who actually work in the company for 90% of do you grade this questions is “No, sorry we don’t do that and CSG only grades Sports cards.”

There are card grading companies that have fizzled out over the years. Staying too niche instead of being more inclusive may be something that causes people to migrate back to other grading companies. If someone is getting their 70’s Star Wars cards graded by PSA I can see them thinking why not just have them grade my sports card to stay consistent?

3 minutes ago, The Nameless One said:

Yes, it's probably best to keep this conversation contained to a single thread, this situation isn't going to lose relevance any time soon so if people need to air their grievances it might be best to direct them here.

2 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

You are really having too much fun with all of this.  What are you going to do if and after they get their own dedicated CGC forum and marketplace? 

Probably forget it even exists?

On 3/15/2021 at 12:45 AM, geraldfordfan69 said:

I check my grading status once a day so ill probably check the forums. No way in hell im posting in another thread after this dumpster fire.

Promises, Promises.

On 3/20/2021 at 9:27 PM, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Definitely do not blame you there.. I would have done the same.. 

Blade actually just came today.

16 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I would definitely take the art over the card.. 

Considering the four PSA graded cards I bought only because I already owned the original paintings of it was easy to let the cards go with the upswing in the market. 
 

When the four cards cost $150 total less than 2 years ago and I was able to sell them for $1,900 now and then buy a 94 Masterpieces painting for $1,000, I’d take the option all day long. I only wish I had bought more PSA graded 92 and 94 Marvel Masterpieces!

23 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I do enjoy Alex Ross's work( should be able to tell by my avatar. ) These may not have hit the same level of hype as some, like the marvel series 1 cards, but almost everything has seen a bump as of late. Think a lot of this is FOMO as the younger crowd calls it. Truth is a lot of it was so mass produced ( like you refer to in your post about potential drop in value) that more than likely the bubble around all of it will burst.  Do not get me wrong. I really hope it does not and that it not only continues to grow, but expand into the rest. There is nothing wrong hedging your bets and diversification. Just remember that like your references to the stock market all of this could fall, so collect what you love that way even if value tanks you will still enjoy what you have. 

I’m still able to buy paintings from these 90’s Marvel cards sets for less than what some of these PSA cards are selling for...and you better believe I dumped what I had and bought a painting.

8 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

I understand what you are saying, but giving in to the mefirstgeneration never works. 

I think the best solution is CGC just stop grading Magic cards. This is clearly a Pokémon message board. At least 98% of the posts on the CGC boards are about Pokémon submissions so just suspend Or altogether stop Magic grading and the company can catch up on grading Pokémon. The demand on the CGC boards just isn’t there to justify the company waste it’s time grading Magic.

48 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Seriously  I am just amazed that the parents of these children do not pay attention to what their kids are doing on public forums.  

You should request a new user name: onlyweaknesscgcpokemontat

The bank did the right thing by denying that loan. How long did that food, which almost certainly contained sea food, sit in the back of that truck?

I can’t imagine how many people in town get sick from that because they decided to run errands like go to the bank while the food just sits in an exposed flat bed truck.

8 minutes ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

That would require a team of lawyers to explain it all. That said if the infractions that lead to some sort of compensation happen within a park they will usually comp you park passes. If severe enough they will comp a room.  They know like Vegas comping rooms or passes. You will still spend money. Merch, Food, Etc. 

I’m just gonna tell the customer service rep I call that as a DIS shareholder I will be voting them off their board of directors seat.