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!”

On 9/4/2022 at 1:13 PM, mcguirjw said:

Also these cards are from 1996 and I don't think CGC will grade them. . Since they grade only from 2002 and up

 

 

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.

On 8/2/2022 at 7:23 PM, Woodntip said:

Hopefully they can eventually incorporate a price guide in their service as well, guess only time will tell. Thank you cgc for doing a bang up job

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.

On 4/20/2022 at 4:15 PM, PaulS. said:

Years have been added with today's update.

 

Paul

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

On 4/20/2022 at 12:59 PM, PaulS. said:

Years will be added to the pop report soon. As for those World Championships and Organized Play fillers, I will look into that. 

 

Thanks, 

Paul

Great, thanks for the info!

On 4/8/2022 at 8:52 AM, ProfessorCFK said:

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?

@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/

9 minutes ago, Toybot said:

I thought about that to but it actually doesn't make sense. If a say Spanish version of a perfect 10 is faded still, then it wouldn't get dinged for it. It's the same thing with shadowless/1st edition base. Most of those cards are much more "faded"(not really, just less color during print or something like that) compared to unlimited. Shadowless/1st Edition do not get dinged for being more "faded". 

So one of 2 things- CGC screwed up and not realizing these cards are normally that "faded" compared to their counterparts, or as I said, sunlight.

I'm still banking on sunlight cause I have serious doubts that these specific cards were all made in completely different factories. Extremely limited run Promos like this would very likely be made in the same factory thus there should be no difference in the standard out of factory quality and normally cards don't come faded from the factory, it's extremely rare.

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.

On 4/27/2021 at 12:45 AM, Toybot said:

You can even see the Fade with the 8 Card too.

Likely exposure to sunlight. It doesn't take long for UV to do serious damage to almost anything. Likely was left somewhere that sunlight hit it for extended periods of time.

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.