Time to scramble to buy some CGC 9.5s chads
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Iām just impressed they managed to center the grade number with the text above - on their first try even!
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People just wanna bitch about CGC, not the label lol
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I canāt speak for all CGC collectors, but I can speak for myself and say that none of those things resonate with me.
The only thing that is slightly annoying is the $5 per card recase. But if weāre assuming someoneās collection is worth an average of $200/card, then that effectively amounts to a 2.5% decrease in the value of oneās collection. Not a huge deal in the scheme of things.
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I dont really grade cards so all is fine. But this is a really big update, basically CGCās entire identity is gone. At least publically changing your grading is better than what they did before, but what is the reason to grade with CGC now?
Just a label change would have been fine for them, but this would be too rigorous for my taste.
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no idea what the other parts of this announcement are ā completely fixated on the basement grading service label redesign. maybe itāll grow on me?
I summarized it in the OP!
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A lot of people itt seem to have known about this ahead of time or have already seen these new slabs. 
I know and bless you, Iām just being dramatic. Not even reading the updates because I canāt look away from the car-crash-label, etc.
in my personal opinion
So Iām genuinely curious: what about the PSA label looks better to you? Maybe itās just me, but I really like the new CGC label.
It seems appropriately neutral and aesthetically pleasing to me. Looks much better than ābasement grading companyā logos, IMO.
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Not really sure itās that modern, but honestly all the existing labels PSA/CGC/BGS are pretty awful and dated.
PSA canāt change now but the amount of abbreviations they are forced into is a joke.
These new CGC designs are better than the blue ones though, and if they hope to last, they needed to do this. Could have done it sooner, but better late than never.
I assume they wonāt roll back like BGS did, but then BGS was a mess of an update whilst this is a streamline.
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This is such a frustrating statistic to use as justification. If subgrades hadnāt increased to a whopping $15/card, Iām sure more than 5% of recent submissions wouldāve requested them.
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Loved my cards with the subgrades and tbh it doesnāt feel right to me that my 9.5s get a free upgrade 
I also donāt want to resubmit my cards for a case change as every shipment is a small risk and Iām happy to have them all in one placeā¦
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Nope, I think the only remotely good looking labels are BGS and ARS (compositionally and with respect to the slab/plastic). CGC has great plastic. PSA is just PSA.
If youāre going to redesign one of the most fundamentally important parts of your service, you really need to go for it. Just my 0.02.
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Tbf you are using an old psa label.
Regardless, The key thing with labels is brand recognition. PSA has a simple label that is easily identifiable a mile away, and now because of inertia itās the market standard. Cgc had that with the blue label, but needed more time. Where this new one feels less distinguishable imo.
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With these changes, I wonder why anyone would choose CGC over PSA?
Also no more upgrading of 9.5s to PSA 10s due to a lack of half grades and sub grades (which was the only reason why CGC was remotely interesting for me).
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Appropriate as grade labels are basically price tags! 
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I personally like the layout of the new label. Smaller font for the cert number on the front was a good choice as I always felt that info was less important.
As someone who only owned a handful of CGC slabs, the one thing I felt they did better than PSA was their cases. The plastic was much clearer and it was easier to see your card so I hope that aspect remained the same.
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