CGC Changed Their Grading Scale & Label

The more i look at the new label the more i agree with opinion that it looks a bit cheap, but i still stand with opinion that it’s better than the previous one, not just sure if it’s good enough. When you completely trash your identity you better do it perfectly without second time changes. If they would have stayed with the blue colour and just redesign the label otherwise i think people would have been more open to changes even with people disagreeing if it’s good direction.

I do like the pristine label a lot, i wonder if that label as a standard but more subtle colours while pristine being that banger would have been more pleasing to crowd eye. Then again, that would have made their choices more like BGS where the colour matters which they apparently try to avoid.

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I wonder why it took them a year to change CGC labels instead of just unifying when they changed the CSG stuff.

Love the slab, but none of their labels have been that great to me.

Wish they kept cheap sub grades and came out the gate with a solid label. Probably would have been best to unify CGC and CSG from the get go too.

Between CSG/CGC there are like 5 different labels out there.

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Ok got an answer.

Wait so they are keeping the 9.5 now? Wtf is going on?!

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9 mint
9.5 mint +
10 gem mint
10 pristine

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This sounds similar to what BGS was going to do except without subs.

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Wait, is the new label design just for trading cards or are they applying it to comics as well?

Just cards I think, I didn’t mind the blue but I do think it’s odd to having everything else they grade be blue

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Not for comics, VHS, PMG or video games

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And now it looks like they aren’t trying to take those second time changes, doesn’t seem like a good idea. When something like this has been planned for a long time quick changes like that sudden 9,5 mint+ don’t look like well thought things

Cgc is way cleaner and way less disruptive. Should’ve done this in the first place. It’s now a copy and paste psa with two trump’s on them.

I wonder if they will pull a BGS and say “just kidding” since their social media posts are getting pooped on

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I doubt it. There’s good in there aswell way more than bgs had. It’ll go through. I’m looking forward to bgs next attempt it’ll be v interesting.

CGC > PSA UwU

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So my gem mint 9.5 1st edition base set raichu is now a 10 overnight? That’s a result

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Its still unclear which cards will upgrade. The initial release said they would upgrade, but the social guy said there is still a 9.5 grade (mint +). Logically it would be weird to upgrade all 9.5’s as some have multiple 9 subgrades.

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It sounds like they will upgrade all current 9.5s but after the transition to the new system, you can still receive a 9.5 on a newly submitted card

So basically until they transition, there are functionally zero 9.5s in the pop report

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This makes my head hurt.

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Go lay down grandpa :older_man:

Edit: 200th post is below :point_down:

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