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Thanks!

Is there a reason you guys don't do DC custom labels?

When do you anticipate toy grading will start and what types will you be grading to start? 

Thanks

Value slow track from 5-19 still at quality control. More than 59 days. Day 64 by my count (not counting Memorial and Independence Day). But of course Con fridays don't count either..........

Shipped yesterday. 65 days.

Value slow track from 5-19 still at quality control. More than 59 days. Day 64 by my count (not counting Memorial and Independence Day). But of course Con fridays don't count either..........

Value tier from 5-19 still at graded. Called yesterday and they said it still has a week and a half. This will bring it to roughly 62 days. Minus a couple for holidays and cons of course. I sent a few to another place that shall not be mentioned. If they stick with their turnarounds they will get the bulk of my business moving forward. CGC's turnarounds are ridiculous. -Steve

What's weird is, the first book I submitted, the key comments were entered in after being a blank field.

 

Then, as of last week, the key comments were removed,

 

Its Secret Wars 8.

 

So it was the comments about being the costume that eventually becomes Venom.

They will change during the grading cycle. When it is marked shipped the actual notes will be shown. -Steve

My value FT from 2/13 just shipped yesterday so no, it is not. -Steve

It seems that they have swept Jan and Feb off the list, so you can't work backwards, but you can see the current and future months' con Fridays on CGC's events page. Going forward, it looks like damn near every Friday will be a con Friday, which is bad for TAT (not even taking the massive new con volume into the equation).

 

Obviously the best thing to do when your business has ridiculous turn around times that still can't be met is to attend 100 conventions and try to get more books to grade. Maybe skip a convention or two to catch up? I am amazed that a legit competitor has not tried to capitalize on this. Only Vault and PGX, and they are either a bunch of hacks or refuse to tell anyone who they are. Maybe PSA will see an opportunity.

 

Well, really, the best thing to do from the business standpoint would be to go to as many cons as possible and drum up more business. You've already been paid for the business you have in the queue, you only get paid more if you get new business. Books already in the process are a captive audience that don't generate new income. Sucks, but that's the way it is.

 

What I'm not clear on is why con Fridays don't count towards TATs. Except in the case of on-site grading, where it would make sense that they couldn't do any grading in Sarasota, a skeleton crew being sent to a con to man a booth shouldn't hold up progress on the queue. That is, unless I've missed something. The con Friday stipulation seems to be an excuse to get a free business day that doesn't count towards their self-measured TATs (that are rarely accurate anyway).

 

In other news, my 3/25 value sub is still stuck on received.

 

What you are describing is the best thing to do for profit not business. Keeping customers is part of business. They can get away with it because there is no competition (real competition anyway).

 

I agree with you, but keeping the doors open and the lights on helps too. If they wanted to help TATs a lot they could suspend submissions until they got caught up. But they'd probably go under before that happened. They're clearly not having an issue with customer retention even with ballooning TATs.

 

Especially now that they have to drop a bunch of money on a JIM 83.

I go to quite a few shows, and have seen people who have Golden Age books who don't trust sending them in by mail, so they wait till they see CGC at a show then submit. CGC also makes quite a bit of coin from doing SS, this weekend at ECCC they ran out of boxes to ship back to their offices, so they must be doing something right.

Do these people then drive to Sarasota to pick up these golden age books or are they mailed to them?

It seems that they have swept Jan and Feb off the list, so you can't work backwards, but you can see the current and future months' con Fridays on CGC's events page. Going forward, it looks like damn near every Friday will be a con Friday, which is bad for TAT (not even taking the massive new con volume into the equation).

 

Obviously the best thing to do when your business has ridiculous turn around times that still can't be met is to attend 100 conventions and try to get more books to grade. Maybe skip a convention or two to catch up? I am amazed that a legit competitor has not tried to capitalize on this. Only Vault and PGX, and they are either a bunch of hacks or refuse to tell anyone who they are. Maybe PSA will see an opportunity.

 

Well, really, the best thing to do from the business standpoint would be to go to as many cons as possible and drum up more business. You've already been paid for the business you have in the queue, you only get paid more if you get new business. Books already in the process are a captive audience that don't generate new income. Sucks, but that's the way it is.

 

What I'm not clear on is why con Fridays don't count towards TATs. Except in the case of on-site grading, where it would make sense that they couldn't do any grading in Sarasota, a skeleton crew being sent to a con to man a booth shouldn't hold up progress on the queue. That is, unless I've missed something. The con Friday stipulation seems to be an excuse to get a free business day that doesn't count towards their self-measured TATs (that are rarely accurate anyway).

 

In other news, my 3/25 value sub is still stuck on received.

 

What you are describing is the best thing to do for profit not business. Keeping customers is part of business. They can get away with it because there is no competition (real competition anyway).

 

I agree with you, but keeping the doors open and the lights on helps too. If they wanted to help TATs a lot they could suspend submissions until they got caught up. But they'd probably go under before that happened. They're clearly not having an issue with customer retention even with ballooning TATs.

Especially now that they have to drop a bunch of money on a JIM 83.

So the moral of this story is that CGC missed a trim on a major key high dollar value issue that deserves more scrutiny than most any other book that comes through their doors......twice?

EFT- 3/5/14 scheduled for grading. Not very "fast"

My EFT from 2 /13 is still stuck in "graded". I called today and they said it "should" go out this week......... They did say they are working till 10 every night so.....

It seems that they have swept Jan and Feb off the list, so you can't work backwards, but you can see the current and future months' con Fridays on CGC's events page. Going forward, it looks like damn near every Friday will be a con Friday, which is bad for TAT (not even taking the massive new con volume into the equation).

 

Obviously the best thing to do when your business has ridiculous turn around times that still can't be met is to attend 100 conventions and try to get more books to grade. Maybe skip a convention or two to catch up? I am amazed that a legit competitor has not tried to capitalize on this. Only Vault and PGX, and they are either a bunch of hacks or refuse to tell anyone who they are. Maybe PSA will see an opportunity.

 

Well, really, the best thing to do from the business standpoint would be to go to as many cons as possible and drum up more business. You've already been paid for the business you have in the queue, you only get paid more if you get new business. Books already in the process are a captive audience that don't generate new income. Sucks, but that's the way it is.

 

What I'm not clear on is why con Fridays don't count towards TATs. Except in the case of on-site grading, where it would make sense that they couldn't do any grading in Sarasota, a skeleton crew being sent to a con to man a booth shouldn't hold up progress on the queue. That is, unless I've missed something. The con Friday stipulation seems to be an excuse to get a free business day that doesn't count towards their self-measured TATs (that are rarely accurate anyway).

 

In other news, my 3/25 value sub is still stuck on received.

What you are describing is the best thing to do for profit not business. Keeping customers is part of business. They can get away with it because there is no competition (real competition anyway).

It seems that they have swept Jan and Feb off the list, so you can't work backwards, but you can see the current and future months' con Fridays on CGC's events page. Going forward, it looks like damn near every Friday will be a con Friday, which is bad for TAT (not even taking the massive new con volume into the equation).

Obviously the best thing to do when your business has ridiculous turn around times that still can't be met is to attend 100 conventions and try to get more books to grade. Maybe skip a convention or two to catch up? I am amazed that a legit competitor has not tried to capitalize on this. Only Vault and PGX, and they are either a bunch of hacks or refuse to tell anyone who they are. Maybe PSA will see an opportunity.

I have an Economy FT from 2/13 still stuck at "graded". sigh. As I said before the worst part is that they upgrade it to graded and I check the damn thing every hour. It's been that way for two weeks. -Steve

I just wish they wouldn't update it to graded and let it sit like that for two weeks. I'm fine when it stays at verified, but once it moves into graded I'm checking the damn thing every hour. -Steve

3 books modern fast track- received 5/6/13, shipped 5/28/13

 

3 books economy fast track - received 4/29/13, still has not shipped

 

sigh...-Steve

Updated: shipped yesterday 6/5/13

3 books modern fast track- received 5/6/13, shipped 5/28/13

3 books economy fast track - received 4/29/13, still has not shipped

sigh...-Steve