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On 10/30/2021 at 1:29 PM, Sluggo and The Radiation Children said:

CSG no 10's anywhere? EBay maybe 1 or 2. Meanwhile PSA 10's everywhere.

The same reason people send to BGS. A PSA 10 is Gem Mint, a CSG 9.5 is Gem Mint, a BGS 9.5 is Gem Mint. They are the same grades. A BGS 10 or a CSG 10 are in many cases a better card than a PSA 10. The problem with grading is people buy the grade not the card. And everyone thinks a 10 is better than a 9.5. When in almost all cases that isn't true. If you were to crack a CSG quad 9.5 or a BGS quad 9.5, I'd be willing to bet 9 times out of 10 it gets a PSA 10.

On 9/10/2021 at 7:55 AM, Shockmaster said:

And how many horrible times did you have selling CSG cards?

Just auctions ending way too low. I’ve changed all my listings to BINs and they are slowly selling. 

On 9/9/2021 at 1:52 PM, oluckydayo said:

This is great news if they've found it.

I've had both Fedex and USPS go through similar troubles where I thought the package was lost for up to a month and it eventually turned up.

Yep they did. It was delivered this morning. Even though it worked out this time probably a good lesson for others to learn. I’m sure I’m not the only person that didn’t notice the $100 insurance limit. 

Well with everyone's comments I guess I must be blind or something, because I absolutely never saw the info about the $100 insurance offered. Until a claims rep sent me a link to a page I'd never seen before.  But luckily that may be a moot point, because it looks like FedEx may have found the package after 10 days missing I got a text this morning that it was picked up and expected to be out for delivery today. So we will see. And thanks Rufuss for the Collectinsure info, signed up last night.

On 9/8/2021 at 11:54 AM, Benjamin Brown said:

Idk....this sounds like a shipper issue not a CSG issue. I always buy my own insurance with FedEx.

The fact that the package was lost was absolutely a FedEx issue, not a CSG issue. Thats correct. But the fact that CSG burries the fact that they only insure FedEx packages for $100 is a CSG issue. If that was made more clear I absolutely wouldn't have selected FedEx for shipment.

On 8/23/2021 at 7:55 PM, Wade McCurdy said:

Just had a 1998 Kobe Bryant Kick Start sell for $110.00 It was a 9.5 grade with a sub 10

Two Beckett 9.5's sold for $253 and $288 recently. Even a PSA 9 sold for $150+

I expected some difference, but not to this extent

Just seeing this. I bought that card from you. Probably will crack it and send to PSA once fees get somewhat reasonable. The thing about CSG that I've noticed is that like others have said, it's a buyers market. Maybe some day they will catch up, but I'd never auction a CSG card again. I've done that and its been horrible for me every time.

If you use the FedEx option for shipping. They put $100 insurance on your order. Nothing more. If you package is lost by FedEx then you can only file a claim for $100 unless you provide your on insurance. But if you request shipment with USPS they will insure your package for the full declared value.  I'm not sure this was always clearly noted on the page before the updated submission form was released, but it is there now. And of course FedEx lost one of my packages with 63 cards in it and CSG wants to file a claim on my behalf for $100.  I used to be the guy always defending CSG, but this fine print screwing me over is the end of it. If they can insure a package with USPS they can insure a package with FedEx.....they just choose not to.

The declared value that you put on the form only comes into account if your cards are lost or damaged while in the possession of CSG. Once they send the cards back to you they claim to have no liability and will only offer you $100 if your order is lost in transit on the way back.

3 hours ago, Warner85 said:

Anyone else have their submission order numbers recently turn unclickable (can’t think of the right wording)? It’s no longer green and now you cannot see your order info. If they have it ready that is. The only one I can click on is the order that has shipped and is on its way back to me.

Same. And if you put the submission number in the link and try to pull it up that way it says that the submission number is invalid.  I was hoping that meant that my order that was graded 10 days ago was finally shipping. Guess not.

14 hours ago, tmoore_25 said:

I'm thinking those cases with the inner sleeve are the larger cases they are waiting for. One of the CS Reps told me they were getting some in a little at a time so I believe there are some of the larger cases out there and those are the only ones different from the snug fit ones.

Maybe, the only cards that I have seen in those holders are the small like tobacco cards, or minis. I've yet to see any card pop up on eBay that is thicker than maybe 55pt like a Topps Chrome Auto.  Cards on 75pt stock and up is what I believe would be in the "thicker" holders.

Ya looks like someone jumped the gun. Would be nice to see a useable pop report before they worry about registries.

The national is 38 days away. Depends on when you subbed them. I already have 3 bulks back, and I have one scheduled for grading now, that I'm 99% sure will be back before the national.

13 hours ago, MountainG said:

That is strange. One thing I haven't seen alot of mention of is that the cards sit perfectly in the slab. there is no play to move around(which I like). I think that this might be why they have to wait for larger holders because the holders are very specific to size. While being a PITA for turnaround times, this has been one of my biggest gripes with psa slabs and other companies with the cards moving around in the slab and causing damage. In the long run, I think this will be good once they figure out the supply chain problem and the insane state of grading settles down.

Totally agree, the way the cards sit in the cases perfectly is the main reason I sub to CSG.  But I've also seen some cards where they do like BGS and put it in a sleeve, and IMO those look terrible.

13 hours ago, tmoore_25 said:

That is insane. CSG just doesnt like me or something. I just looked at my order again and I use to have subgrades and no overall grades. Now I dont have any grades at all and they are in grading/qc. They were already graded. Why are they going back through again? I did take screenshots of the original subgrades though just in case they change my grades.

It happens, if you have subs they dissapear for a bit then show back up. With the overall grades and imaging when it ships.

10 minutes ago, C. Yeager said:

Interesting. Thanks for posting this! So if I am reading this correctly, you subbed one bulk order on March 6th, and got it back on April 20th? 😳 That is pretty amazing, since that has not been the case for many others here waiting on bulk subbed in late February and early March. Also, have you received back your second bulk order that shipped on 6/15 yet? That is even more shocking since that was received on 4/16.

Also interesting with the 78 card bulk order, since CSG marked it as "shipped" and it shows it shipped on 6/21. Which is obviously a future date, since today is 6/19.

Ya not sure why it says 6/21 ship date. Maybe that was the anticipated ship date. Got it yesterday. The 6/15 order I have already recieved as well.  Not sure why everyone else seems to have issues. With the 4/16 order I also included an express sub in the same box, so it got logged quickly, but nothing moved on that one until about 10 days ago, then it went through quickly.  Almost everything I have subbed is modern baseball, nothing thicker than a Topps Chrome Auto.  So I can only assume, the combination of easy to grade and slab cards, plus sending with an express sub makes it quicker. Maybe.

On 6/17/2021 at 12:53 PM, tmoore_25 said:

Sorry, but I'm not comprehending this. Are you saying that you have shipped out (3) orders submitted at the Bulk level of 50 cards or more and that you have had all (3) orders graded and shipped back to you with all cards graded? If so, I'm going to have to ask for some sort of proof as you sir are a unicorn. There is not one person out there that I believe has gotten 3 bulk orders back from CSG yet. I will continue to believe that until someone can show me proof otherwise. This company is not touching bulk orders.

My bulk order was received Feb 26, mere days after they opened up and it is still there now.

I guess it is technically only 2. Since one was on the same order form, but it was still bulk so I call it 3.  78 card order, 50 card order (no subs on both) 5 card order with subs. Which was part of the 78 card order, but they processed, charged, and shipped it as a seperate order, so its seperate to me.

Edit to add: Yea all cards were graded in each order, I've never had a need for the thicker cases I guess.

I've gotten 3 bulk orders shipped so far. The latest one shipped yesterday and was entered on 4/16.

1 hour ago, MDBLAW said:

Hard to believe but I sent in an economy level group of cards to be graded and it was received in the shipping department on March 23, 2021.  Now, almost 3 months later, my cards are still in the grading department and I have no graded cards even to view online. This process has bogged down to the point of ridiculousness.

I've never done an economy order, but one of my bulk orders that was entered/received April 16th, was shipped today. Oddly I had 2 bulk orders that submission, one with subs and one without, and the one with subs finished first and shipped today.  Even though that is supposed to take another 5 days.

These two just showed up.