Doesn’t seem inevitable to me. Not all grading companies have to be run as incompetently as PSA. There’s no reason that, if CGC had an influx of submissions, they couldn’t just scale up accordingly. It’s what any business with competent leadership would do.
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3 years of “Whinging” it lol. I literally yelled when I finally got the OK.
Anyone here from Canada submitted cards to CGC? Curious if customs would come into effect.
I’m not so sure that’ll happen. I don’t know how large CGCs staff is, but all of the other companies turn around times are insane because sports cards are booming, not because TCGs are booming. CGC not being in sports cards is going to keep the turn around times low for that reason alone. (This is also assuming CGC is going to keep growing in their market share, which also isn’t guaranteed).
I sent cards, I contacted CGC customer support before sending the items because I dealt with that before when submitting with PSA and this is what I was told:
Hello,
Thank you for your email,
All goods shipped to the US that’s over $2500 in value are subjected MPF- (Merchandise Process Fee) which is .3646% of the declared value that needs to be paid to US customs.
The only way is to do a TIB (Temporary Import Bond) FedEx does not do them. But you need brokers on both sides to do this.
Have a nice week.
Regards,
Dean A. Martin
Customer Service
Certified Guaranty Company
p. 1-877-662-6642 | f. 941.360.2558
Thank you very much for that info @seeingdouble 
Anyone’s who’s done a submission so far, what’s cgc’s position on dents? I have a dark Charizard with a micro dent on the back, auto 6?
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I should hopefully be able to update on that soon. I have some cards there now and one apparently has an indent from Ludkins pregrade. Seems to be taking longer then the estimated turn around times. They haven’t replied to an email I sent a week ago so Ludkins must be very busy and it could be sitting with them already for all I know.
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Yeah must be really busy, good for Ludkin and CGC. I opt for the 20 day submission, send in late July, and I believe they send out early August. So real soon I hope for us 
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Has anyone experienced this with CGC yet?
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My 30 day bulk order from end of July through ludkins is on its way back via UPS as of today and should be in my hands tomorrow. Charlie said they took a few extra days registering but in all reality we were at like 32 business days at most so not bad whatsoever lol
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I think this was discussed a few posts back.
Too early to expect this to be a mass occurrence.
I’ve seen this with PSA cases too though, not properly sonically welded.
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Wow, I’m supposed to get a huge submission the end of this month, we’ll see.
Edit: Yeah people make mistakes. CGC has a long standing track record and I know some may just pass them off but as other’s mentioned, other grading companies have done the same. I don’t care for subgrades but I’m looking forward to those cases. It’s a love hate relationship for most people.
I seriously wouldn’t worry about it. They’ve done over 20,000 cards and this is the 1 time we saw it. Company already apologized for human error and comped.
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A minor indent was not auto 6 with CGC found out today the card got a 7. It was pretty clean otherwise but had bad centering probably 8/10 and the minor indent so feel they are doing a good job at giving a fair overall grade.
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I agree. CGC has really created a fair market for cards graded 2-6 specifically in my opinion. I would say the 9,9.5,10s are usually pretty good between psa, bgs and cgc but having a perfect card with one large crease get a 1 was always silly to me from psa and literally not knowing why a card got 2-5 was also strange
I really dig the CGC cases… if only they made their labels look better lol
The labels look great with water types though
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Lol speaking of the devil, I received an email this morning. So I should be getting my submission back soon too.
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FYI, I shipped 6 cards to CGC with a 20 day turn around 6 days ago and will receive it next week*
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