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How could anyone possibly help you when you didn't attach any pics or give any info beyond "boxes of Yu-Gi-Oh cards?"

What you have is an Unlimited Base Set Charizard. If you want to sell it, definitely get it graded. From the pics, it looks like it would probably get a 9, which is worth ~$800.

Post pictures. Given that you acquired them in 1995 and they're white-bordered, they're going to either be Unlimited, Revised, or 4th Edition. In all likelihood, they're Revised or 4th Edition because the print runs were multiple orders of magnitude larger than that of Unlimited.

Also would like to know this. It seems weird to have in-print sets available in the registry but not have registry support for literally any of the sets released between 2003-2013 (which, notably, includes e-Series and the entire EX series -- two of the most collectible, popular eras). There's also no registry option for many of the most popular types of cards to collect (i.e., shinings, gold stars, exs). The MTG creature type registry options are also bizarre. You have registry options for tribes like efreets, atogs, dauthi, riggers, and scorpions, but don't have registry support for angels, demons, dragons, goblins, elves, etc. Just bizarre. (Note: I'm not complaining -- I like the registry. It's just lacking some of the most basic, common-sense inclusions.)

Genuinely curious: why did you add certs of cards that weren't yours in the first place? I don't even understand why anyone would enter in certs of other peoples' cards. If CGC were offering actual rewards (i.e., cash) for out-competing people in the registry, then I could understand why an unscrupulous person would want to take advantage of that. But there's literally nothing to gain by lying... So, again...why?

Pathetic as it may be, it's the reality. Many people collect slabs in order to complete registry sets. And because there's no registry that allows both PSA and CGC slabs, there are a number of PSA collectors who would never add a CGC slab to their collection (which is a shame).

Awesome; thank you! I know people who have been hesitant to cross-collect CGC slabs specifically because they're working on PSA registry sets (and PSA only allows PSA slabs to be part of registry sets). If CGC allowed PSA slabs to be part of registry sets, I'm 100% serious when I say I know people who would start cross-collecting CGC slabs. There are enfranchised PSA collectors out there who are hesitant to cross-collect CGC slabs because of the current lack of a registry option. The suggestion might sound counterintuitive, but I genuinely think it would go a long way in encouraging PSA/BGS collectors to branch out and add CGC slabs to their sets.

Registry interface looks awesome, just had a couple of questions regarding it: 1. Why are some Pokemon sets not available in the registry (i.e., EX Series sets)? 2. Has there been a consideration of having the registry allow "hybrid" sets? My sets have a combination of CGC 9.5s and PSA 10s, and I know others who also collect in this way. If the registry system allowed hybrid sets, there are way more people who would be interested in participating. I suspect that very few people would be interested in crossing the few non-CGC cards in their sets just to be able to participate in the registry system. Allowing hybrid sets would also entice PSA collectors to cross-collect CGC. You could even stipulate that x% of the set has to be comprised of CGC-graded cards. Anyway, just an idea. Keep up the good work.

Better late than never lol. Seems to function well, overall. Is there a way to report cards that have been cracked out of slabs and/or lost/damaged in transit?

It's not almost pathetic -- it is pathetic. CGC had so much potential to really revolutionize the TCG grading space, and they totally squandered it. It's such a shame because the product CGC puts out is good (if not great). The slabs have exceptional clarity and provide an overall superior viewing experience. There are some issues with grading consistency, but that's (to some extent) inevitable with human grading. But not releasing a pop report for two+ years? There's no good excuse for that. As I see it, there are two possible explanations (neither of which are good excuses): 1. CGC is profoundly mismanaged. or 2. The release of the pop report was intentionally delayed (for what reason I'm not sure).

I'm still holding out hope that CGC goes the CSG route. It's a humungous mistake not to make the gem mint grade exclusively 10, IMO. It's what the market wants. It seems easy enough -- legacy Gem Mint 9.5s can be reslabbed (for a fee) as gem mint 10s, and everything else would remain the same. Also, where are the vintage English CGC 10s on eBay? I'm seeing almost none being listed. Hell, I'm not even seeing that many 9.5s (outside of non-holos).

Thank you for the update. I am eagerly looking forward to it, as are many others!

Any update on this? Is having it released by early February still the plan?

76 is impressive! That's a super cool goal. I'm collecting gem mint (CGC 9.5 and PSA 10) English sets of both holos and exs for the first 5 EX Series sets (plus TRR). I currently have 13 CGC 9.5s across those sets as well as a couple stray 9.5s (an Arcanine ex and a Deoxys ex #97). I also have many dozens of PSA 10s. Simply put, my CGC 9.5s put my PSA 10s to shame in terms of card quality. The vast majority of my PSA 10s wouldn't cross to CGC 9.5, IMHO. CGC 9s can be insanely strong. I have a giant stack of my strongest CGC 9s that I'm planning on crossing to PSA with the hope of getting 10s. If they would've gotten 9.5s, I would've happily kept them in the CGC cases. But CGC has made 9.5s on these sorts of cards laughably difficult to get. I get wanting to have tight standards, but making 9.5s ten times harder to get than PSA 10 is insanity to me! I share your hope that more people will grade mint English EX Series with CGC! I'm always down to spend less and get higher quality cards :). That's a winning combo, in my book.

CGC cases are exceptionally nice. The clarity and feel is superior to PSA, IMHO. Personally, I'm done grading with CGC, but I will continue buying CGC slabs I need when they come up for sale (which is pretty much never lol). People need to start submitting more mint vintage English holos to CGC, pls.