Ron Churches

Seems completely down now. Can't get any field to load on the submission form.

Yours is probably fine. Everyone in your boat should stop trying to hit the database. We need less people in the pool!

Log out of the form so I can get this big submission finished...

Short term, ugh. They will get swamped again and probably push bulk time more. Long term, this is good. Trim out some of the low end bulk and they moved around the submission values a bit to make it make more sense (IMO). Necessary move, given the competition and the general market.

This. The amount of time it would take them to comp values wouldn't be worth it. Send your cards in for the value you want them to be insured, were they to get lost.

The price is too low!

It sounds, again, like a you thing. From what I can tell, you're taking your singular perspective and extrapolating it on the whole.

Why are you guys trying to tell the dude who's holding the bag that he doesn't know how to do it? I really question why a lot of people are in this hobby. Takes too long to grade and the bubble is gonna pop and ruin all the value. Maybe you guys should exit now and find something happier to do.

Your real clock doesn't start until it's in the system, I'm afraid. I do hope they get ahead of their receiving issues soon.

PSA and BGS will grade those at this point.

I agree. I bet the Pika is about a hair away from a 9.5 centering. I'd crack it and slip it back in on another submission, lol.

Pika looks a little thinner on the left than the right, maybe a hair more so on the back. Honestly, they both do. CGC definitely isn't 60/40 like PSA claims on their centering. It's HARD to get a 9.5 or a 10 on centering. I believe they use computer imaging for their centering, and the tolerances are tight. I have wondered if the rainbow cards might be harder to get 10s on because the borders aren't clearly defined all the way around the card, but with the number that they grade you've got a lot of data available to validate and arrange expectations around.

yeah, you're in for 5 dollars plus a second shipping transaction, so if it's just two cards (or a relatively small number) you'll want to stay consistent on the subgrades between them.

I would imagine you labeled it Japanese when you filled out the submission form. Did you try to select Korean? If you had, you would have seen that it didn't populate. Oddball stuff should be a red flag to do a little due diligence; tough lesson, though.

600 copies of base set 2 Pikachu

Yep, this. The card looks ok. If the customer doesn't want to reslab it himself, which he can do for 10 bucks, I'd refund and do that myself. It sucks to have to deal with, but it happens every now and then.

That is true for cards received pre-2/16, but that is no longer the case. They bill at time of grading now, which is a better incentive for them to move faster.

Honestly, if Disney had demand that made their lines explode on the scale you reference, they would absolutely increase prices and would sell premium tickets to high rollers who wanted to skip the line.

They got more cards than they expected and had to increase TaT. Higher tiers get priority. If you do not like the risk that comes with the lowest priority, I suggest you look at a higher tier for your next submission, since the TaT seems to be of higher marginal utility to you than cost.

You are just not made for bulk, my dude. You are built differently. Next time you do the order form, look for 'standard'. It'll move you along a lot faster. It costs a little more, but you'll know that you are paying to get the cards back faster.

It absolutely is, lol. If it was FIFO with no regard to tier, there'd be no reason to have tiers.

Every grading company is wrestling with capacity constraints right now, so it will be interesting to see how they navigate it. PSA thought it could handle it by increasing floor space and hiring more people, but ultimately they had to do a massive price increase. And it's not clear that's going to work, either, as they still have a year's worth of cards to work through as a backlog. It would have been difficult for a new entrant into the market, who is still calculating the ROI on the capital expenditures just to open the doors, to decide to ramp up capacity to catch the fallout from PSA's troubles. The balance between quality and quantity is real in services like this, and it's likely not an industry where you can just turn the machine on and let it run for 24 hours a day. Tired graders likely make for poor graders. There's a million other pieces to this process, as well. The welding capacity can't be easily increased, not without buying more equipment. They have massive issues with receiving, which I would think would be one of the easiest areas to increase capacity, but even that has been something they have struggled to do (industry problem; every grading company is behind on the mail significantly). End of day, demand is so high, they can afford to be more cautious and p i ss people off a bit, as that's just the way this industry can operate. There are few substitutes that you can take your money to, and they are all in the same boat. Sort of like shopping for your local cable company, in that regard.

I doubt your Mew meets the criteria for OC label, but it's definitely not centered very well. It's a great card, though.

You should pool together with a couple of dudes here and start a grading company. Sounds like you guys have a solid understanding of how to increase capacity. Heck, maybe just start a grading company consulting firm. You're giving away all your ideas for free here on the CGC chat forums.