May be a silly question, but you differentiate between surface and scratching – can you elaborate?
They deny it and do not provide an explanation.
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When I say surface, I mean more like dents and bends
Awesome results. I agree with you, first gen (all blue) CGC 9.5s are easily the best value in all of Pokemon!
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Actually, A good 40-50% of the 9.5’s were the newer white-Blue label as shown in my YT videos of my cracking them.
But in general, yes the old blue labeled slabs were much more stricked.
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Newest Cross Success:
Mewtwo Legendary Collection CGC 9.5 —> PSA 10
Purchased on Ebay: $1,177 after tax
Current Market Value: $3,000-$5,000
Increase: 254% - 424%
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Congrats, you’re a smart man.
Now you have to change your profile picture though :)!
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I still have this card. I owned 3 CGC 9.5 Mewtwo’s lol. I still have 2 more.
Cracked two slabs to send out for autographs then grading, one was a CGC. The other was a BGS 9.5 gold label and it got a PSA 9, but since this is a CGC crossover thread I won’t post it.
Graded to a PSA 10! My first time getting a PSA 10 from any submission actually.
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Cgc 8.5 to psa 10 to bgs black label? Great result.
I’ve got old cgc labels of 3rd print fossil dragonites and a gengar this constantly happening inspires me to do the same at some point.
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@jac2357 just the 8.5 to PSA 10. The other card I was talking about was a totally different card. That was a BGS 9.5 gold label and it got a PSA 9. This one:
The only reason I cracked them in the first place was to send them to get autographed, and then I planned to have them graded PSA. I just wanted them protected more than anything.
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Yeah I understood soz if my message wasn’t clear what I mean is you’ve gone from cgc 8.5 to psa 10 so next move is psa 10 to bgs black label. Just joking really.
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Oh, haha I got it.
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It would be one hell of a story lol.
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When you submit that huge lot, are you submitting in one submission or splitting it into different submissions? What tier?
So Theirs don’t mean higher grades.
I submitted in $15 a card tier. The grader doesn’t grade “harsher” because it is a higher tier.
I usually don’t like to go over 100 items in a submission due to the different graders I may get.
This submission they were nice but others they maybe more strict.
I tend to chop all my submissions up into 50-100 card submissions to have the “average” grading experience with PSA.
It has worked pretty well for me 
Plus being your own harsh grader is 80% of the “luck” you will get with grading cards.
Did you get upcharged on these cards? 15$ sub has 199$ value. I have gotten away with no upcharge before so im curious if yours were flagged or not
Oh 100% I was up charged lol
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I’ve never successfully converted a CGC 9.5 or BGS 9.5 to a PSA 10 unless I had at least two 10 subgrades. I don’t know how you monsters do it with quad 9.5s