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Thebigbeerski

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    Major Price Increase?

    in CGC Trading Cards General Discussion

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    At this point Sp33dy you are just trolling. I have a economy order with sub grades, that was received on 12/07, that just got scheduled for grading. You need to relax. Maybe you can start an competing company that can get product in and out faster with cheaper prices, you know, if you can find graders, and have the money to pay them and for the space that you are going to need to process all the new orders! Let’s us know how it goes. 

    Major Price Increase?

    in CGC Trading Cards General Discussion

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    20 minutes ago, PaulS. said:

    We did not lie to anyone. We clearly state on the turnaround times page that they are only our best estimates. There has been a simply crazy increase in volume the last few weeks. There is only so much we can do. We already spent millions of dollars on a new facility as well as hired over 70 people since January, but we need to continue to ramp up production. This process will take time. We have also increased overtime incentives to try to push through the backlog.

    It is certainly not a lack of effort from the team causing the backlog to increase. Please be patient is all I can say. We are doing and will continue to do our best without sacrificing quality.

     

    Paul

    Thank you guys for your continued work throughout these crazy times. I hope you all enjoy your weekend. 

    Why are we expected to put up with this ?

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    6 minutes ago, Sp33dy said:

    Bro look at all sales everywhere. Find me a consistent amount of cards that are rivaling psa slabs.u won't find it. If a psa card sells for 300 then the same grade for a cgc will be almost 200 less

    Then use PSA. Others will continue to use CGC and not complain about it over and over and over and over agin. Do you people not have anything better to do? 

    Should I expect my cards back in 5 years?

    in CGC Trading Cards General Discussion

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    5 minutes ago, Ron Churches said:

    They are hiring like crazy and someone speculated that they are adding physical space. So did PSA. The processes involved in grading aren't easily scalable. If it were, there would be new entrants into the marketplace doing it better/faster. All the grading companies are watching mail trucks dump millions of cards in their warehouse, knowing there's just no way they can get to it quick enough. Back to econ 101, these are capacity constraints interacting with an industry with very high barriers of entry and low scalability of capacity. It's a linear function, which is why they can make the estimates in the first place, so long as they know how many cards are going to land in their lap. If those estimates on the # of cards coming in spike, I will let you figure out what it does to the linear function that spits out how long it will take for the order to come out.

    This guy gets it!

    Should I expect my cards back in 5 years?

    in CGC Trading Cards General Discussion

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    2 minutes ago, Sp33dy said:

    U guys always jump to the, well they should.raise prices that will help. No it won't jus more money to take and keep the wait. They should really hire ppl and not say they are. ND WHEN THEY FIX THE ISSUES AND BRING THE TAT BACK DOWN THEN TALK ABOUT RAISING PRICES. NOT BEFORE 

    Because that is what will stop with the bulk order issue they are having now. Also, bro, all you do is complain, if you have an issue why not try to contact Paul on the forums, or call CGC directly. You are becoming stale with your every day complaints

    Should I expect my cards back in 5 years?

    in CGC Trading Cards General Discussion

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    6 minutes ago, Mephisto said:

    I’m not sure why so many people didn’t see this coming. My friend and I had a conversation back in Early July 2020 that there was no way the wait times would not balloon in a relatively short amount of time for CGC cards. 🤷 

     

    Its because a bunch of people wrote off CGC Trading Cards as soon as they launched. The die hard "other" grading company people. And then it all went down hill for them with wait times and such, so they started to migrate and flooded CGC along with the flippers and scalpers. This, along with people actually realizing that CGC is a solid grading service for trading cards. They are demanding top dollar now, just look at that Blastiose that sold for some 300k+.

    Turn around times

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    Economy (19 cards + 19 sub grades for said cards) 
    Received  12/7

    Still in received status as of 2/26

    sent them in when turn around times for economy was, 25 or 30 days. It is what it is. Just wish I had a bit more info for when they will be graded. Hopefully soon. 
     

    Also sent 4 cards in at Walkthrough tier. They were graded (sub grades too) and shipped within 2 days of being received 2/16-2/18, which made me ecstatic.