ProfessorCFK

This whole thing has been one long running joke it seems. CGC must have its own dictionary with different definitions of "soon" and "week" - it has been "Coming Soon" for almost a year! Just look at the timeline! March 31, 2022 (295 days ago) – “I am sorry but, we don't have a set time as to when the encapsulation delay will end.” April 27, 2022 (268 days ago) – “We will be making an announcement regarding this soon.” Comment from a member – “As in how soon? From my experience dealing with CGC soon could mean anything between a day or two or a few months. CGC Response - “I would guess next week at the latest.” June 6, 2022 (228 days ago) – “We are currently finalizing a solution and hope to provide an update soon. Once we have fully tested this solution, we will make an announcement regarding it and let everyone know their metal cards can be safely encapsulated.” June 29, 2022 (205 days ago) – “We still aren't grading metal cards. The solution that we tried last week did not work out so well, so we have one more part coming in that will hopefully remedy the situation. Will be at least another few weeks out.” July 25, 2022 (179 days ago) – “We are still working on this” August 11, 2022 (162 days ago) – “Still working on it. The solution we were hoping would work did not. So not we are working on another one, which should work.” September 6, 2022 (136 days ago) – “No certain ETA. But there's a concept in the mail to us right now. We should hopefully know how that works by next week.” September 21, 2022 (121 days ago) – “On a side note, the team is literally working on finalizing a solution to encapsulate metal cards as we speak.” September 22, 2022 (120 days ago) – “I believe we are getting close to be able to encapsulate these. October 3, 2022 (109 days ago) – “I expect hurricane Ian put a small delay into this. Not much, though. I believe the cards were test shipped last week, Hopefully, there will be good news by the end of the week.” October 7, 2022 (105 days ago) – “I doubt we will have an update until Tuesday at the earliest.” October 27, 2022 (85 days ago) – “We had promising results, but are still working on the solution.” November 12, 2022 (69 days ago) – “It will most likely be another 3 weeks before we have any new information regarding this.” December 16, 2022 (35 days ago) – “We are very close to making a positive announcement.” January 19, 2022 (1 day ago) – “The announcement is coming very soon, guys. Please be patient a little while longer.” January 20, 2022 (today) – “Please be on the lookout in the coming weeks for an article regarding this issue. Thank you for being so patient!”

Just a note - these cards aren't from 1996. That might be the copywrite date on the card, but YGO wasn't released in English until 2002. So at the earliest, these cards are from 2002.

A grading company publishing a price/value guide for cards would be incredibly unethical, and I imagine is not something that would happen.

These are not errors, they are fake.

Very cool, this has made the POP report 100% more useful. Thanks for the follow-up.

Great, thanks for the info!

@CGC Mike and @PaulS. do you have any insight? Even with the POP report, I can't tell what the actual population of my graded cards are because the report is ambiguous. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure these are the exact same cards, but for some reason CGC has split them into two variants. Any insight? It'd also be great if these could be broken out by year. Currently, it's impossible to tell what the POP is for each card as there is no date information. Are they all the same card? Are they different years? Who knows. And these cards need MUCH more detail for the POP report to actually be useful. What differentiates these cards?

I also have a mystery card that got a 6.5. Can't find anything on the card that would lead it to a 5.5 surface grade. No dents or anything. https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/3803167035/

They aren't faded - that's just the color of non-English cards manufactured in that time period. If it was sun fading, the other non-English cards would have also been dinged for having different colored borders, such as the 9.5 German card, 9.0 Spanish card or 9.0 French card - they all have the same lighter colored border. There is something else going on. Feel free to look at it up close - the cert of the Portuguese card is 3803167035.

Eh, I'd have to strongly disagree that the low score is for sun damage for a few reasons. 1 - I'm pretty sure those are just the normal border colors for non-English/non-Japanese cards printed by The Pokemon Company in 2003/2004. 2 - these cards have never been exposed to sunlight. They have been stored in 9-card pages in this zipped-binder since I was given them for participating in Worlds 2004.

Just got these back from CGC - my 2004 competitive season promo cards. One of the things that I love about the Charmander line slabs is that they call out the date of 2004. According to PSA, the Charmander line promos are all 2003 cards. While this would be correct if you went purely on the copywrite date and/or set (EX Dragons) release date, calling these 2003 cards is factually incorrect. The charmander, charmeleon, and charizard were all released in 2004 at their respective tournaments. I was worried that the charmander line was going to have the 2003 date, which would have messed up my competitive season display that I am working on. I also have no idea why the Portuguese Tropical Wind scored 6.5 - I really cannot find any flaws that would warrant such a low grade. I won't lose any sleep over it though because I won these cards in 2004 and never have any intention of selling them.