Welcome and thank you for sharing your experience with CGC. It’s helpful because I’m considering where to sub my mix of vintage and modern NM.
I won’t be resubmitting to CGC Germany since I already gave them 3 chances. I already cracked open some slabs and submitted them to AOG here in Germany. They have really good reviews and the slabs look similar to CGC slabs. Let’s see how that goes, can’t get worse than this. 
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Hi! Welcome to the forum!
Sorry to see how badly they butchered your submission. It also looks like they have incorrectly labeled your Venusaur as Shadowless instead of 1st Edition.
eBay example of correct designation:
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2 down, 1 to go. I wonder how bad PSA deutschland is going to be.
I didn’t even notice that mislabel, well spotted!
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Maybe it’s just that German graders are super harsh graders? 
As a sub-question, why are both CGC and BGS basing their EU operations from Germany, and PSA is following soon? What makes Germany so attractive to open up a facility?
I think Europeans are definitely harsher graders, but I think a lot of them haven’t seen much vintage - especially higher end cards - therefore either have a greater bias or jealousy(?).
Let’s remember they aren’t typically high salary jobs either.
BGS took over cardmarket grading believe.
CGC had their original hub there so I imagine they just expanded that.
Well here I am making another submission…
BGS EU is closed so CGC Germany here we go.
Let’s see how they shaft these Naruto Mythos promos…I like pain.
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I think this should basically be the main reason (Germany has not only by far the highest GDP in the EU, but even the 3rd highest in the world). Besides that Germany is basically the heart of the EU and has the 3rd biggest population (Russia and Turkey have higher populations, but wouldn’t make for political and geographical reasons).
I don’t have data on that, but I would also suppose the biggest percentage of collectors (target demographic) lives in Germany or the neighboring countries.
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