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8 hours ago, Mephisto said:

I kept reading before they launched how CGC was a great opportunity due to turn around times of other card grading companies. I saw a lot of people who trumpeted that CGC has a long established company for grading comics and are associated with another company that has graded currency for years when people questioned using CGC to grade cards. 

Many months ago I had to laugh and mentioned to a few people in the CGC comic community that people were going to be in a rude awakening because the CGC card grading turnaround times would balloon in no time...just like the turnaround times for comic books have over the years. Everyone I mentioned this to agreed it would happen. 

Over the course of the 17 years I have been on these message boards I have seen countless threads regarding burgeoning turnaround times for graded comics. I’m honestly surprised the card grading has this many complaints this soon but at the same time I’m even more surprised more people didn’t see this coming. 🤷‍♂️

The surprise isn't in times going up. It's the amount of time at once, and with no prior warning. Not notifying anyone with submissions, or increasing projected turnaround time until after it's already there is surprising. Surely they could see they were getting backlogged or would be shortly based off of the number of submissions. Highly doubt it was a magical revelation that struck them one morning as they walked into the building. Sixty day turnaround isn't the issue so much as being told thirty, then having it double after they have your money and product. A full 100% increase in turnaround time without any indication they were delayed. Seems less about the actual turnaround time, and more about how they decided to inform.

8 hours ago, alohaboyz said:

Perfectly said.  I dont think the younger staff in the CGC department understand owning their own Business.  Cash flow, customers service, problem solving and business ethics.   I truly wand CGC to be a major competitor in the grading card sector, but they are making the same mistake SGC made this summer.  This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for CGC to take advantage of,  This type of opportunity does not happen every year.    Please CGC,  do it right.

You mean where SGC pretty much said send everything you have even though they couldn't accommodate? I sent 10 '59 baseball cards to be graded there and the turnaround time is like 75-80+ days, which to me is absurd. Luckily those are PC so turnaround time doesn't matter. What I sent to CGC isn't, so time does play a huge part in it. I was on the fence between selling them raw vs grade. If I knew it would be double I probably would've just sold raw. I'm not necessarily mad about it being 60 days, as much as it saying 30 and within a week becoming 60 right after they received it. Understanding that it's not guaranteed, but assuming it'll be close to a month and half total time is a lot different than 3 months. Throws a massive wrench in the schedule for other cards being shipped and what I was going to sell graded instead of raw. I'm sure many others are in the same boat at this point, but doesn't make it any less frustrating.

8 hours ago, DB Cards said:

This is unfortunate. The fact that times doubled upon being "reflective" of the time submissions are shipping out makes me wonder if they held out as long as possible before changing them. As their turnaround time gets closer and closer to PSAs they will almost surely have less customers for Pokemon (not sure how the YGO community feels about them). Hopefully they find a way to keep up with this increase in demand as they had that as a true selling point when first entering the scene. If you want to run a business successfully you HAVE to solve a problem that the companies already in that space don't.

I feel like it's somewhat deceptive and counter productive. They charged me soon after it was received, vs PSA when it's more or less on the way back. So for a bulk submission that's roughly $500 sitting in limbo. As far as times being reflective instead of predictive, seems like a way to bamboozle the people that sent submissions in last. I'd much rather it say 60 days and have it come back sooner than to plan around a 30 day mark and suddenly it's double. If I have to pay up front, and then they tell me it will take twice as long what reason would I have to use them again after being burned to that extent? Not that 60 days is atrociously bad, but as a contractor if I told someone their kitchen renovation would be done in a month +/- few days, then double the time they would be beyond livid. Value starts to falter when you can't be consistent with your schedule. Over promise, under deliver isn't the way to go.

I'm wondering the same thing as op. The turnaround was 30 days when I sent mine in, which was the entire reason I used this service. Wondering after what date the new time is projected to be 60 or if everything they've received within the last few weeks is 60 as well.