Stefan_W

Modern slow track with 25 books SFG 26 April 2022 G/E/I 23 June 2022 QC end of day on 27 June 2022 This is awesome

Here's a wild story for you all. Payment showed up on my credit card on Sat from CGC and the numbers seemed off. I waited for the bill to come in, and sure enough the 10% discount I am supposed to get was not applied. Based on past experience with billing I was expecting a months long process of phone calls and emails to get it straightened out, so I braced to a long wait. I called this morning soon after everything opened and I actually reached someone from billing on my first try. I nearly had a freaking heart attack! Then, and this is the best part, the person checked the order, confirmed what I suspected, and said she would straighten it out today and add a credit for the amount of the overbill to my account. This was the exact resolution I was hoping for and it took under 5 mins total. I am speechless and totally impressed.

25/25 hit the 9.6 pre-screen with about 80% or so at 9.8, so very happy with the results. Everything is done and marked for shipping on June 28th.

25 modern pre screen slow track: SFG May 19th G/E/I June 22 QC this morning, June 25 Super fast! Dont have the grades listed yet, but based on the bill total it looks like I did very well with this pre screen.

I seriously doubt anyone will be scared away by paying over $30 per book. What will slow submission rates down is big dips in the market where people are no longer making money hand over fist on everything they send in. It looks like that type of market correction is already happening so we will see if TATs start to come down over the next few months.

The only tier that has been really suffering is the economy pre-1975 tier. A simple use of fast track cuts even that one down dramatically.

Just have some movement ahead of schedule for a slow track modern submission: Received and SFG on 26 Apr 2022 G/E/I on 23 June 2022 I love this quick turnaround, kudos to the CGC staff for moving things so quickly

Slow track.

Boom! Modern pre-screen arrived and went into SFG on May 19th, and hit G/E/I at the end of the day today. I've been super impressed with how fast the pre-screens have moved through over the past few months.

This is awesome, thank you for sharing! CL takes down auction info fairly quickly so it is impossible to track their results over time without logging on your own.

I tried to stagger my shipments so that I would have 3-4 weeks between each of them. The last couple went through way ahead of schedule which created a bit of a lull for me. I am still checked out of force of habit but it will be a few weeks before there is movement on any of mine. I guess this is my summer break

I already have a response from customer service and they are reslabbing all of the books I identified as having newton rings and the one with the shard of plastic. Kudos for being so prompt and making the right call.

Customer service was awesome to deal with. I just sent the pics, and hopefully they will re-slab all of the books rather than a selection of them.

The good news: 20 out of 25 modern Star Wars books in my last shipment made the 9.8 pre-screen. The bad news: 8 of the 20 that make it had newton rings, and another one had a plastic shard trapped between the book and the front of the case. So 9 out of 20 should have failed quality control. Looks like I will be on the horn with customer service again to get this fixed.

It is a sunk cost. Even selling a slab like this for $10 or $20 is better than cracking it and throwing it back into a bin, providing someone is willing to take it.

Prescreens are charged when they move from G/E/I and into Quality Control. Yeah, it is much easier to do it that way since that is the first time there can be an accurate and certain count of how much an order will cost. However, I seriously doubt any motivation like to "slow the tide of submissions" is a factor in any decision that is made. CGC is a large business, and while having a backlog of submissions may be frustrating for us it very healthy from an organizational perspective. They are not going to discourage people from submitting to them.

I am being charged for everything except pre-screens within a day or so of the shipment being opened.

Very cool! I dont see any in the Sold Listings. I think this person will have a hard time getting even close to their asking price for it, but who knows.

All of my modern submissions so far have gone through much faster than the listed TATs. We'll see how it plays out, but as it stands I am not at all concerned about small increases in what is listed.

I have done a few pre-screens and they always charge my card as soon as the order moves from G/E/I to quality quality control. It is kind of handy because you can use the amount they charge to figure out how many books passed the pre-screen before the info is added into the online system.

Hit QC today, 8 June 2022. This group got hit a bit hard by the grader. By my eye it was a stronger group than my previous pre-screen where I got 20/25 at 9.8 and I figured it would be near perfect, but this time around looks like it was 20/25 again.

Group of 25 pre-screen Moderns slow track. Received - 31 March 2022 G/E/I - 6 June 2022

I had this happen with a slabbed book, and it ticked me off because I agree to a price that was a bit below GPA. After the non-payment there was no option to give the person a strike. I ended up relisted in a different way and as a result GPA was never adjusted for the relist, so not only was the book not paid for but it also dropped in value as a result. Lesson learned.

Packages are opened within a couple of days so it is pretty fast at the moment.

Slow track pre-screen hit Q/C and today (2 June) and marked as shipped for tomorrow, 3 June 2022.