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I recommend it on cards you think will be over $100. It may not help value a ton if the subgrades aren’t strong for the grade but it will help buyer confidence.

11/23 bulk with subgrades shipped today (2/3). 47 business days.

11/23 bulk with subgrades shipped today (2/3). 47 business days.

No, only PSA grades packs at the moment.

Hindsight is 2020. I sold multiple Evolutions elite trainer boxes (pokemon) in December at $60 each, which seemed like a crazy good price for something that only had 8 packs from an overproduced set. Now they sell for $125 a piece, 2 months later.

Scheduled on 1/20, Grading 2/1. About a week and a half.

11/23 bulk moved to grading/quality control today. Anybody know how long to expect it to take from here?

Say you bought a card for $30 raw, but you think it is a gem mint card and a CGC 9.5 sells for $150. Ultimately, you can put $30 since that is what you paid for it, but do you want it insured for more than that? I personally would, but that is up to you. It is self-reported and CGC likely lacks the time to nitpick a $150 card sent in through bulk, so unless you're sending in a 1st edition vintage holo or a brand new shiny Charizard V, you can likely send it in through bulk. But beware that if something should happen you will only be insured for your declared value of the card. Paul can correct me if I'm wrong of course

This is a fair point, and the Test-Print Blastoise was an awesome story that I recognize CGC's value in. However, the amount of people sending in cards worth more than the $2500 limit at PSA's express level is likely not high. The main use case of walkthrough (in my opinion) is to get new ultra-modern cards graded and on the market quickly. I don't know your stats (obviously), and I'm just some random dude on the internet, but if I were working at CGC I would keep an eye on the amount the walkthrough orders decrease after the price change.

Collectors generally only get cards graded when the financial value gets to the point where you feel like it needs protection or you want to increase its value/liquidity in case you decide to sell eventually.w

The walkthrough is the one area I think the increase was done poorly. I totally understand increasing prices to weed out massive bulk submissions by flippers. If it made sense to grade in bulk with subs at $13, but not at $16, the card may not warrant grading in the first place. But changing walkthrough price to $75 is a bit heavy, especially when it costs nearly the same or less to grade it express at PSA and may only take an extra week or so to get back to you. Not 100% sure why they made that change but I have never used walkthrough so it doesn't really effect me at all lol, just constructive criticism more than anything.

Not sure why you are gatekeeping, anyone is allowed in this hobby. Complaining about TATs and price increases is going to happen no matter what company you are. If you go to Starbucks and the line is out the door and you see the price has went up, that’s something you might complain about no? Now I do still think that it could be framed as better constructive criticism, rather than outright anger. There’s nothing wrong with saying a company didn’t meet your personal expectations, but there is something wrong with hating on them for just running their business.

Damn dude, your standard has taken over 10 years? And I thought PSA's turnaround times were bad XD

Subgrades or no subgrades? Mine was bulk no sub so that may be why?

Anybody got the actual email? I wasn't subscribed to it before now. Curious to see the price increases.

I was super surprised today when my 12/1 bulk order got scheduled.

Generally speaking I don't recommend using the auction format to sell CGC cards as it doesn't seem to garner the amount that it deserves (e.g. I won a bid for $78 on an E3 pikachu 8.5 and sold it 2 weeks later for $160), but with high-end it likely wouldn't matter as much.

Oof. I was going based on other people's recent reports, but that makes me a little more worried about how long my 11/23 bulk sub will take. Also, that is pretty strange because my bulk 11/6 was shipped 12/31.

Seems to be roughly 5-6 business days for bulk at this point, not sure on the other tiers.

I would give them a call. That is way longer than any I have seen and there has to be something wrong with your order somewhere.

I'm there with you guys. If anything them taking thousands of my limited capitol that I won't see for months up front just prevents me from going out to buy more cards to grade with them.

Anybody know how long Express will take to go from received to graded? My package arrived so should be entered into the system soon and I'm curious to know what it will take from there.

Condition is huge in vintage Pokemon, so the differences in prices are due to that. If you have a holo from WOTC in good condition I almost always recommend grading it yourself.

Any answers? I have a card with holo bleed I’ve considered sending in and would love to know if it could be labeled :)

They likely won't bump them unless you're sending in really high-end items (shadowless/1st ed Charizard for example) as they don't have the time to care about cards being slightly below value, if anything it just means you are under-insuring your cards in the case something happens. I have sent in Gem Mint Mega Charizard EX (~$200 value) in bulk for example. They even say that you can put the price you paid for it.