CGC Changed Their Grading Scale & Label

What ho-oh did you get?

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Could be the wine spritzers talking but they look perfectly normal to me!

Unfortunately I’m completely unable to understand if something is sarcasm or not over the internet. Wish I didn’t have this issue. Would you like me to point out / explain the error?

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As much as I enjoy a nice wine spritzer once in a decade, I was not being serious lol

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Okay that’s really cool. Congrats!:partying_face:

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@Dyl i didn’t know what thread to ask this but as a dragonite fan. What is the grail/king of all dragonite cards?

Definitely not the right thread to ask it haha, but my opinion would be the EX Team Rocket Returns Dark Dragonite Reverse Foil.

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Lol I figured I was wrong. What makes that one the best?

To my knowledge, Dragonite hasn’t been in a major trophy card or an illustration contest, so the ā€œgrailā€ tends to depend on personal preferences. I think it’s the best artwork, from the best EX-era set, and is fairly rare because the reverse foil slot could have been any of the 95 commons, uncommons, or rares in the set.

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Dragonite definitely needs more love. I remember how hard it was to evolve him in red/yellow. Grinding a dratini to level 56

Agreed…

To get this thread back on topic, it’s unfortunate that a Perfect 10 TRR Dark Dragonite Reverse Foil doesn’t exist and will now never have the opportunity to be graded. :upside_down_face:

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What a coincidence—neither can I!

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Ooo

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So this new grading scale isn’t taking place until mid July. Can’t people take advantage of this opportunity to crack and send in strong psa 9’s in hopes of getting cgc 9.5s to later send in to be bumped to cgc 10s? Or do you think CGC is already taking this into account with grading cards from now until then?

No, because the post-change 10 grade is going to (according to CGC) have the same standard as the pre-change 9.5 grade. So in theory, it should be no easier to get a 9.5 pre-change than a 10 post-change.

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Pop report on Lugia 1st just changed over night. One 9.5 and a Pristine 10 added. Assuming these are crossovers. No clue why the report would update on a Saturday but :man_shrugging:t2:.

Have whatever thoughts you want on the change but from a business perspective I have a feeling this is going to work out well for CGC.

Sidenote; Almost lost my mind because I actually submitted two that I was expecting grades back on Friday lol. These were graded without subs though so definitely not mine.

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Where should the average price of a cgc 10 gem mint be compared to a psa 10 gem mint?

  • Cgc 100% higher
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  • Cgc 20% higher
  • Cgc 10% higher
  • Cgc and Psa the same price
  • Cgc 10% lower
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  • Cgc 40% lower
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  • Cgc 100% lower

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When we get past 50 votes on the price I’ll work out the average.

In utopian world where everyone trusted all graders it should be within 10% + and - margin of error. Being we are not in utopia, I voted for -20%.

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