I’m just saying all of their labels should be white instead of having one that is gold. I’m not saying there should be three different 10 layouts.
I also think they should have kept 9.5s as 9.5s and just said they are now mint+ instead of gem mint, but then they wouldn’t make as much on reholders.
Is there a higher reslab charge for cards above 10k usd? My cards were slabbed before the price increases so im not sure how to proceed.
This is how I wished they did it (old → new)
Gem mint 9.5 → 9.5 mint +
Pristine 10 → gem mint 10
Perfect 10 → pristine 10
(Using their new labels)
Their thinking and my thinking align. Collecting a gem mint set with some better than gem mints in there which is exactly what I’m doing. People that collect 9s can do the same with 9.5s as extras. It gives a little extra fun when set building.
Yes, the reholder cost for high value used to be $30 so the assumption is it will be $15 now
Effectively wipe out the gem mint pop that’s suicide.
The pristine 10 looks like a traffic sign. I actually don’t mind the gold. It’s the rounded square black blob and the larger text size on the 10 that doesn’t look good to me. They shoulda just kept the gem mint 10 design and added gold to the background and golded the 10.
Isn’t this similar to what BGS tried to do? Ppl were upset at condition of their slabs being down graded. But it at least would’ve been better than what CGC is doing now.
I’m not sure. Idr what bgs did. It’s just imo, my idea wouldn’t change anyone’s grades. The number would be the same. It’s just the word next to the number would change.
Wow I’m glad I never graded with CGC. Their whole time with grading cards so far has been a disaster to watch! How is a company going to change their grading scale twice and label in what a year or so time? Two? I lost track but this move might send them packing
Some people have mentioned here how this is a sort of betrayal to CGC’s loyal customers. I’ll counter that with: as a pretty heavy CGC collector, this change makes me very happy haha. I’m pretty excited to switch to the new labels.
Of course, these poor souls are sad:
But overall, I’m pretty excited about this lol, not going to lie.
They mentioned in the live feed if you have lots to change you can contact them for a better deal than $5 each. It is exciting. I’m really not sure what all the hates about albeit expected as they always get slammed.
Don’t even look like the same company. 
People will always hate change, especially change to this degree. Just feels kinda unnecessary & very high risk low reward tbh. They already had a loyal customer base that was growing by the day & gaining brand notoriety. This change obviously won’t kill them but definitely kills a lot of the traction they were building. On top of needlessly complicating their grading, could see a lot of ppl losing interest in CGC.
they changed their grading scale after charging money to “objectively” grade people’s collectibles for years. Its not too hard to understand. Its not life altering and people will forget in a week but to claim it is no big deal is just wrong
Just casually holding three illustrators
It’s a numbers game I’d have done the same. Net positive. For @lolzicost aswell.
