Yeahiwasder4dat

Warehouse seems to be the bottleneck for both inbound and outbound as standard orders seem to still be getting pushed through around 20 something days. Most of the TAT increase seems to be due to receiving from what I'm seeing. I'm beginning to think it might be more of a workspace or material issue like you stated. Labor typically is the easiest thing to control in terms of cost and expanding/reducing from a managerial standpoint. Theoretically they shouldn't have much trouble if they can find people willing to work in that aspect(maybe they can't?). Takes time to train them but I would think it would easier than finding someone with years of card grading experience.

It probably got missed and is now buried in the pile. I hate that for you bro, paying WK price to not get the service. I've seen other people post on the trading cards that their EX/WK seems to have been passed up as well. Seems like their receiving is having a really rough time.

You marked the package WK all over? If so it probably got missed.

Nah, our postal service doesn't give a rats . I was talking to my mailman the other day. He scans on pickup, he always picks up if I request one, etc. Other three hardly ever do their job properly. He was out for 3 days, and when he came back he saw the pickup request from me for the last three days piled up. He tried to convince me to call the PO and complain, said people he works with are trash(he's near retirement age, they're all younger). Those same people rammed a flat rate in my mailbox bending it to hell. They take no pride in what they do. USPS complaints on Reddit is really entertaining to check out if you have the time. Seen some wild things they'll do to a package to make it fit in a mailbox.

Pretty much the entire point of grading other than trying to insure it is having a third party assign condition. Do people waste money they could've used acquiring more cards for their PC to grade their own PC? 🤔

Actually kept it real chill with the CS person. Know it's not their fault, and they have no control over it. Definitely voiced the frustration of the situation though. From what they said it's not supposed to be like that, and non-express/WK orders are supposed to be set aside with that days subs after the higher tier is removed from the box. So he's telling me that it's supposed to be like any reasonable person would think it would go. Maybe in theory, but in practice it doesn't seem to be going like that. I just can't send stuff in on a 20+ TAT, that then moves to 48, then to 65 when there's probably $12-13k depending on market in cards being subbed when I've turned selling at shows, and online into a full-time job. I tried to play it on the safe side and buffer myself for 45 days by holding about $4k in raw cards to sell, well beyond what the actual TAT was when submitting. Seeing other orders coming in a month later and getting pushed through is infuriating when trying to be chill about getting the merchandise back and depending on it as a means of income.

No one cares that you sent multiple subs in one box, people do that all the time. It's that stuff like standard gets prioritized simply because it's in the same box even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the express order. It's that your standard can be delivered a month later, and back to you before other standard subs are even opened that have been there since the end of March. It gets put in the back of the existing grading queue for that day simply because it was mailed in the same box as another order, instead of taking it's place in line behind all the other existing boxes. It essentially pushes all of ours back when they spend time doing other orders that came in after. None of the outrage is directed towards you specifically so much as the wildly_fanciful_statement of how this goes on and on when they're two months behind on opening. It shafts everyone that's been waiting in line. Edit: I'm sure only a small percentage of submitters probably even come on the forums, so this probably happens on a pretty large scale that isn't really easy to judge based off just forum post.

Maybe my eyes deceive me, but I'd question a 10 centering on that, compared to some with 9.5 centering I've seen. Looks heavy on the left border and top.

They can pay either it's just whoever files. I've had to file a few because of this exact issue with the flat rates. Gets caught in the machine, or they just ram it into the box. I deal in cards, not comics but it happens to those as well.

What in the world, I thought they were into mid-late Jan now on bulk? 😕

Really? Some people really love them, some people really hate them. Kind of depends on the card for me. I think silver prizms look great in their slabs other cards its like ehhhhh.

Pretty hard to find the 2000 Zards in decent condition without paying a fortune.

A BGS or CGC 9.5 should be equal to a PSA 10. PSA cuts half grades off at 8.5 I believe. Both are the "Gem Mint" grades from the companies.

I get it, but your post and other prove a point that their current system is busted. Just the way it goes. Make enough complaints, they'll get sick of it, their boss will and continue from there. Rented a table at a card show for this weekend months ago, when my order should have been back to me based off TAT when sent. Now I only have a fraction of what I was looking to sell. 44 business days my standard has been sitting in their warehouse while others with EX/WK get pushed right on through. Been patient for two months. Have to draw a line somewhere when it's costing me money.

That's what I'm thinking. I'm taking a screenshot of every instance of this. Whoever has to deal with me Monday is going to have one hell of a day, and every day following. I might be the outlier in feeling this way, but 2 months of my order going unopened while seeing others get rammed through has got me close to full on rage mode.

So your standard was delivered 4/30 (received 5/7) and is in Grading/QC now?

Gotcha. I think I completed the last sub form on like 3/25 and didn't remember it saying anything about marking St boxes. Didn't know if I missed it, or it was new.

Same, first day they dropped prices I subbed 3 cards. Back in hand in 4 days. It was wild.

When did they change it to saying standard boxes needed to be marked?

I was about 7 cards short on my first bulk sub, so I sent in a few evolutions holos. I didn't really think I'd ever sell them. I was just using them as fillers to hit the limit. People bought them though, so I guess that's why people are grading almost everything. Doesn't make sense to me but whatever, money is money.

Kanto boxes and Hidden Fates were going for about 3x MSRP, that's mostly what people are after.

I'm not following how that really ties into what I was saying.

I could be completely wrong here but I'm going to hazard a guess. I imagine when they open a package, it's probably their policy to log all the cards in that package to reduce the chance that anything gets misplaced. So when people send WK/EX the rest of their order is logged as well. It probably goes to the back of the line for that particular tier at that moment. In the case of standard the actual turn around is probably roughly 20 some odd days once your package is opened. Due to it going into the back of the line when your box is opened it essentially cuts down the waiting period for them to open your package at puts you at the back of the existing queue for that moment. In essence your 20+ days starts then. Problem is that the time spent on them logging those orders with the higher tier is that it's taking the place of another order that's been sitting there for X days unopened and that the orders with a priority tier get moved ahead of everyone else. If they open 3000 packages a day, and for that given day 300 Ex+ packages with standard roll through they spend a certain percentage of that time logging the orders that came with the Ex instead of the packages that were already sitting in the line. It ends up fast tracking the entire order instead of just that tier. These numbers probably aren't realistic but are just an example. There are only so many hours in day so it has to have some impact on the existing unopened orders. I may be overestimating the impact but it has to slow the prior orders to some degree. I imagine pulling the priority stuff and resealing the box is seen as an unnecessary liability so the only solution would be if they required submissions to be sent separately by tier. If there wasn't a massive backlog on getting packages opened the difference would most likely be negligible. With the current backlog being months it can end up making a huge difference in the time it takes to get back to you.

Express since 4/29? 😕

It's irritating as hell to see someone else's mess get delivered a month later and rammed through when the backlog has gotten this bad. Under normal circumstances it probably wouldn't matter much, but when you're talking months just to get stuff opened it's pretty questionable. Shaving off a few days is one thing, months is a different story.