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zorloth

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  1. How could anyone possibly help you when you didn't attach any pics or give any info beyond "boxes of Yu-Gi-Oh cards?"
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.)
  5. 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?
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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?
  10. 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).
  11. 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).
  12. Thank you for the update. I am eagerly looking forward to it, as are many others!
  13. Any update on this? Is having it released by early February still the plan?
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. I've experienced similar to this guy. I had a submission of somewhere around 150 EX Series reverse holos, most of them pack fresh (10-15 of which I pulled myself between 2019-2021). I didn't get a single 9.5. Literally not even one. Compare this to my PSA sub where 80%+ of my pack fresh holos/reverse holos get 10s. Like the guy in that video, I submitted cards from 2003-04. The card quality of pack fresh cards from that era is god-tier. Until CGC starts making it reasonably attainable to get 9.5s on vintage English holos, I'm done grading with them. There's no reason why CGC 9.5s should be that much more difficult to attain than PSA 10s.
  17. That's not the issue. The issue is that CGC is grading both pack fresh cards and regular NM cards as 9s. If they were grading NM cards as 8s and pack fresh cards as 9s, then there would be zero issue at all. The problem isn't that CGC is too harsh, it's that cards of vastly different quality are getting the same grades.
  18. You put it perfectly. CGC's grading scale is incapable of distinguishing between mint cards and NM cards. I learned my lesson with this after I submitted cards to them that I literally opened from packs the same day. Out of the 7 cards in that submission, 6 of them got 9s: And one lone 9.5: These aren't cards from Neo Genesis or Jungle -- these are cards from sets with extremely high print quality. I'm fairly confident that all of these except the Manectric would be likely to cross to PSA 10. I obviously wasn't expecting CGC 10s, but I was hoping that at least 4 of the 7 would get CGC 9.5. But nope, only a single one did. This wouldn't be at all an issue if CGC was universally harsh. But the issue is that they're NOT. When I submit NM (PSA 8 quality) cards I purchase off eBay, TCGPlayer, or Troll & Toad, many of them ALSO get 9s . CGC has proved incapable of distinguishing between mint and NM cards. As you stated, the grade range is squished, in effect. When I buy a CGC 8.5 or CGC 9, I have no clue whether to expect a PSA 8-quality card or a PSA 9 or 10-quality card. CGC is a great place to grade NM cards, but I will never send them my pack fresh cards ever again lol. That said, I will continue to buy the s**t out of CGC 9.5 vintage English holos when they pop up for reasonable prices.
  19. I've had pretty much the exact same experience. But in my case, everything gets 8.5s (or 9s) regardless of condition. For example: The top two cards I literally pulled from packs this year. The Mudkip has very bad centering, but the cards are otherwise obviously mint. The bottom two cards aren't even close to pack fresh -- they're in PSA 8-9 condition but have subtle surface wear that clearly isn't factory damage. These four cards are objectively not in the same condition. The top two are mint, and the bottom two are what I'd describe as NM. The fact that all four cards got the same grade is utterly bizarre to me. I have tons of other similar examples I could give. My conclusion is that CGC's grading scale is unable to distinguish between mint and NM cards. They are either being too loose with NM cards or too strict with mint cards (or both). CGC 8.5 encompasses the entire PSA 7-10 range. And then CGC 9 encompasses the PSA 9-10 range. And then CGC 9.5s are basically unicorns (for pre-2008 English holos -- of course, modern and/or Japanese cards are a different ball game).
  20. Six months? We're talking about a pop report tool, not an MMORPG lol. A lone competent programmer could set it up in less than a week. I'm a huge fan of CGC, but the fact that they haven't released one yet is pathetic and inexcusable. It's genuinely confounding that an otherwise competent company hasn't put any priority whatsoever on something as important as this.
  21. Hi all! I'm looking for the following cards, all in CGC 9.5: (offer prices are in USD. I might pay extra depends on subgrades) 1x RS Blaziken holo 3/109 (2003 copyright date) - $400 1x RS Mightyena holo 10/109 - $175 1x RS Wailord holo 14/109 - $175 1x RS Hitmonchan ex holo 98/109 - $700 1x SS Cacturne holo 2/100 - $210 1x SS Jolteon holo 6/100 - $280 1x SS Sableye holo 10/100 - $200 1x SS Solrock holo 13/100 - $225 1x SS Zangoose holo 14/100 - $195 1x SS Aggron ex holo 95/100 - $320 1x SS Raichu ex holo 98/100 - $400 1x SS Typhlosion ex holo 99/100 - $400 1x SS Wailord ex holo 100/100 - $600 1x DR Absol holo 1/97 - $275 1x DR Altaria holo 2/97 - $160 1x DR Flygon holo 4/97 - $225 1x DR Minun holo 7/97 - $175 1x DR Salamence holo 10/97 - $325 1x DR Golem ex holo 91/97 - $275 1x DR Kingdra ex holo 92/97 - $275 1x DR Latias ex holo 93/97 - $750 1x DR Magcargo ex holo 95/97 - $275 1x DR Muk ex holo 96/97 - $275 1x MA Team Aqua's Crawdaunt holo 2/95 - $110 1x MA Team Aqua's Kyogre holo 3/95 - $200 1x MA Team Aqua's Sharpedo holo 5/95 - $150 1x MA Team Aqua's Walrein holo 6/95 $95 1x MA Team Magma's Aggron holo 7/95 $95 1x MA Team Magma's Claydol holo 8/95 - $140 1x MA Team Magma's Groudon holo 9/95 - $200 1x MA Team Magma's Houndoom holo 10/95 - $225 1x MA Team Magma's Rhydon holo 11/95 - $150 1x MA Team Magma's Torkoal holo 12/95 - $150 1x MA Blaziken ex holo 89/95 - $850 1x MA Cradily ex holo 90/95 - $600 1x MA Entei ex holo 91/95 - $800 1x MA Suicune ex holo 94/95 - $1000 1x TR Rocket's Entei ex holo 97/109 - $525 1x TR Rocket's Hitmonchan ex holo 98/109 - $575 1x TR Rocket's Mewtwo ex holo 99/109 - $850 1x TR Rocket's Moltres ex holo 100/109 - $550 1x TR Rocket's Scizor ex holo 101/109 - $550 1x TR Rocket's Sneasel ex holo 103/109 - $500 1x TR Rocket's Suicune ex holo 105/109 - $625 I'd also be interesting in buying any CGC 9 exs (2003-2007), but what's listed above is my high priority list! I'm very new to the CGC forum, but I'm active on E4 and Facebook, with countless references from both platforms. I'm also active on e bay (>2300 feedback score, 100% positive). If you have anything from the list above, please contact me and I'd love to buy :).
  22. Nope. My sub from 5/6 was charged on October 11th and there's been no movement in the 3+ weeks since then. Still G/E/I.