Just buy another Encapsulation Machine, add a 2nd shift, and hire more graders.
To train the new graders should be done on 2nd shift.
That's a good idea. I'm assuming you will be putting up the $ to purchase the machine, and hire a 2nd shift, and hire more graders? That's very nice of you.
CGC is a business, not a non-profit. They have to balance profits with keeping their customer base happy. With the amount of submissions they are getting, it doesn't seem like the turnaround time is hurting their business.
Actually this argument doesn't hold any water whatsoever. To start with, you offer no proof that it is not hurting business.
I can in fact offer proof that it IS hurting business. I am submitting less books than in the past because of the ridiculous turnaround time. I know several other dealers who have told me that they are subbing less and less books because of turnaround time, one of them our very own Greg Reece.
They have cut costs in the past few years (by getting rid of some of the more expensive graders), while charging more and more for a slower, less consistent service. Not to mention the ridiculous $5 per invoice surcharge.
I believe CGC is making a ton of money. They just don't want to give any of it back out.
PGX is not the answer, but if someone with some money wanted to start a grading service with some very reputable people involved, they could seriously put a hurting on CGC.
I don't wish anything bad on them, I just wish they would get their act together.
How am I supposed to offer proof it isn't hurting their business? Your "proof" is that you personally aren't submitting as many books and some other guys you talked to aren't either? Their wait times are going up. I'm just assuming here, but I would think wait times increase as they get more business, not less. Could they be getting more books in if they kept the wait times down? Yes. I never said the wait times aren't hurting business. It's a dumb argument to say that it's not. What I said was it doesn't seem like it's hurting. And as wait times continue to go up, I'd have to think that's because their submissions are increasing, not decreasing.
You say CGC is making a ton of money. Prove that.
We are all on the same side here. CGC needs to get some more graders and get the times back on schedule. What my original post was about and what irritates me is when people start shouting suggestions like it's so easy to fix. It's easy to say "buy this and hire this" when it's not your money you are spending.
The fact that they are falling further behind means nothing.
If you currently are taking 500 submissions per day, but could in fact be taking 800 a day if you were more efficient, that's NOT losing business??
They should raise their prices. That will slow down submissions and let them start getting back on track.