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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.

19 hours ago, LKG said:

How long was it in scheduled for grading to grading?

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?

On 1/30/2021 at 10:20 PM, Highstakes825 said:

I’m still a little confused. I don’t understand the max value part. Are they talking about the value of the card? How is there a value on the card when it hasn’t been graded? Sorry this might sound dumb. 

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

2 hours ago, PaulS. said:

Please do note that our Walkthrough tier is going to be $75 flat for an unlimited value of card. The CGC-graded Test Print Blastoise cost the submitter $50 to grade. If the same card were submitted to PSA at the valuation it sold for of $360,000, it would cost $5,000, 100 times as much.

 

Paul

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.

17 hours ago, Dom Fonce said:

So, flippers are ruining the system. Some people actually want to keep the cards they get graded, regardless of their value. Those people are called collectors.

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

On 1/29/2021 at 9:29 PM, Sawwed said:

Terribly done how you gonna increase the prices so much after a few months? 75+7 per card with subgrades for walkthrough absolutely insane they are going to lose a lot of customers for this... their cards have not fully reached the value of psa an bgs it was getting there slowly but this is just going to push everyone away.

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.

1 hour ago, netherxvoid said:

50 Card bulk submission with sub-grades

received 12/4/202 

70 Card standard submission with sub-grades

received 1/9/2010

no movement  as of 1/28/2021 , both were delivered and marked received well before estimated TAT change. Going to be a while...

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

1 hour ago, LKG said:

That's messed up, my 11/30 Bulk is still received.

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.

2 hours ago, KRod518 said:

Anyone have an economy order received around 12/3?  Just trying to gauge how far my order is from getting scheduled.

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.

3 hours ago, PokeMasters said:

If only that were true. My bulk sub received 11/10 has been scheduled for grading for 3-4 weeks.

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.

12 hours ago, Ttbell said:

Does anybody know the time frame of Scheduled for Grading to Finalized/Shipped? 

I know it's not a set number of days, but a time frame would be awesome.

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

17 hours ago, Fraelich said:

Received 9/24/20. No Change.. still just "Received".

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.

18 hours ago, Yeahiwasder4dat said:

Agreed, that's one of my biggest complaints. Walk through and maybe express charging up front is one thing. 2+ months is another.

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.

On 1/20/2021 at 11:51 PM, PeterPark said:

Not to shameslessly plug, but my question is somewhat similar and I posted it in its own thread. I have a shadowed, not 1st edition charizard 4/102 and see huge price discrepancies on ebay...is that proxy nervousness? Graded cards seem to sell for 20x not-graded. My experience selling my magic cards was much more straight-forward so I'm a bit at a loss...

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 :)

On 1/20/2021 at 1:29 PM, ToonCena said:

Hi! I want to send the 50 cards bulk, but no more, even if I know a couple of cards will get bumped in the next category, making the bulk not having 50 cards, is it something I can do?

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.