Anecdotally, almost every 9.5 I was watching or following on ebay has sold out or increased in price since the announcement. Time will tell whether this was smart or dumb
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Yep, Iām enjoying the show. 
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Not just smart it was super smart. Uplifting the entire market overnight. The people are speaking with their wallets and that says everything.
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Now Iām wondering if I should just sell my 9.5 Lugia or get them switched firstā¦
bro you should be paid by cgc
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In a market upturn itās when to cash out. Do it now or pay the max grading fee those are the two choices. Youāll make a tidy sum even if not the max so be happy.
This could be psa or bgs making the moves. I enjoy seeing the clever moves being made by whoeverās doing them. I love numbers and patterns and this is very similar. I have this horrible feeling bgs is about to fumble the ball again. Wonāt be long til we find out lol. I actually want them to get it right itās good to have 3 choices.
Yeah Iām really trying to decide. I was actually trying to win the 10 on rare candy and was going to sell them regardlessā¦
These are actually from PSA 9s that I cross graded and got CGC 9.5s on.
I was also going to send in my 9.5 Vaporeon
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Ive just had a quick count and we are 3 and a half hours into the 21st of June over here in the UK and more 9.5s have sold than the whole of the 19th. The 20th was when they announced and the sales have been about 3 times the amount of the 19th. I expect today will be higher as itās a full day of sales after announcement.
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CGC better have cheaper subs than PSA if they want to compete with PSA. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
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Price changes are coming they hinted at that bit. They said thereās a lot to come. Your IG post made me feel sad for you. Why are subs so important to you personally?
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It made you feel sad for me because I said itās not too late for them to undo their change? 
My entire collection has subgrades which I had to pay a 2x premium for. Iām not going to pay $5 for every card in my entire collection to switch to the new system, have my entire collection in limbo with the risk of something happening in transit, and be paying to lose value in the process. It just doesnāt make any sense.
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Yes I felt your emotion reading that. Keep them as is as they are now limited editions. Iām only sending in a hand picked selection and Iām in no rush to do it.
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The most devastating thing is that my collection is quite literally impossible to complete now. Since I collect Oddish and nobody grades Oddish the cards arenāt on the market for me to buy even if I wanted to.
Iām left with the choices of accept their new system and pay an assload up front to CGC, switch to PSA and pay an assload to crossgrade, or crack all of my cards and put them in binders for free. I love slabs so the last option is not one that I desire. Iām left with super shitty options.
I think Iām one of the few who truly paid double for subgrades because my individual cards are only worth submitting at bulk pricing, and every Oddish card is like that. To have your collection cost drop 50% overnight because of a change out of my control doesnāt make me want to support them at all and makes me super bitter. Itās a collectorās worst nightmare.
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Iāve just had a look through your collection thread to see what sort of subs you go for itās a real mix. Good news is you would get some 10 and 9.5 mint + because you have good subs. Only you can decide what to do. X
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CGC is just trying to help. They knew you liked Oddish, so theyāve provided a bunch of Gloom for free.
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Says more about the absurdity of grading than anything imo
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BGS back track on their change. Letās see if CGC will back track with the amount of complaints from peopleās reactions so far.
Agreed. This could happen with any company and people would chase the free 10s and perceived increase in $$$.