Now we’ve got the new cgc gem mint 10 what’s next?
Probably when I drive back Saturday. But I just did the relabel. CGC definitely handled on site grading a million times better than BGS. Beckett had “appointments” you could sign up for to drop off but they didn’t have many openings and the line was massive, plus you have the paper form you have to actually fill out.
CGC basically tells everyone to do the form online and bring it ready and there was essentially 0 line because of it. They just scan your sheets while you put your waitlist info in a tablet and off you go.
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Bgs does not know how to scan a qr code. That’s a bit unfair
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It’s such a weird company. I was grading sports cards with them going back to the late 90s and basically the only thing that has changed is that you can prefill the mail in form lol. Bizarre how you have to manually fill out a form for on site.
Also, unrelated, but for the second time now since the change CGC is sending me a card back with an altered grade and they are claiming they were “polished”.
Except…this card was pack pulled and immediately shipped off to BGS and got a 9.5. And stayed like that until I just cracked it and sent it in last week. I don’t know if this is some weird population control nonsense or if they just have no idea what they are looking at.
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I’d be curious which part of the card they are referring to as being polished. I know there have been issues with those third party services polishing cards to make them look more mint so you can thank those services for the extra scrutiny 
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I have no clue. It has scratches hence the 9 sub grade with Beckett. Literally my only concern was that maybe they graded the surface harsher than BGS. It makes zero sense.
The other one they sent back was an old label CGC 9 I cracked and sent in because I thought they were too harsh on the centering. 
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You mention cracking it, I wonder if it would have been considered altered if you had done a cross-over instead 
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I’m legit considering sending it back to BGS, Then trying to crossover in the slab to CGC again to see what happens. If anything so I can tell them they are stupid.
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Lawful evil says
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$1000+ card turned into a $50 card, that’s the magic of grading with CGC!
In all seriousness I were you I’d do exactly that. No use in keeping it like that & maybe CGC would be encouraged to get it together.
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I’m trying to figure out from them what exactly they are seeing but I doubt they will tell me much. Both cards they’ve sent back to me like this were ones that are super hard to grade in a 10 with psa. They just claim that it was confirmed by their “head grading team”.
Zero chance I’d leave it and not crack it regardless.
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AA grade makes total sense if you can confirm a card is real but not confirm if its definitely not altered. I think @Dyl charizard caused this lol.
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That doesn’t make any sense though.
How can they give it an altered grade because they can’t confirm it’s NOT polished lol. This card doesn’t even have a clean holo. You can see the scratches in their own scan.
Also someone graded a full art No.2, 3, and 4 trainer cards with CGC. I saw them in person but they also just posted it on IG.
For all the doomposting and clickbait videos about the demise of CGC they sure are getting a lot of big hitter cards
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Grading fees on high end cards are way cheaper through CGC vs PSA. Probablt why CGC gets some of these
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People keep saying this, but when someone has a five-six figure card they aren’t grading with CGC over PSA just to save 1-2k in grading fee up charges. Especially when the PSA equivalent is definitely going to be worth more than that much more. (For now).
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Grading the card for their own collection is what comes to mind. If I was lucky enough to own a raw Umbreon PLAY gold star and wanted it authenticed, grading fees would come into play
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Nah. When you’re talking about cards that high end there has to be more than just a couple of grand causing you to grade with CGC over PSA. I literally have a thread where I asked if I should cross my CGC Lugia over to PSA. It would have cost me 1-1.5k if it did and it’s for my personal collection. If I preferred PSA that much more that amount of money is nothing in relation.
Keep in mind the people who own these cards didn’t get them first hand and grade them. They already invested a ton into them.
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Any doubt stick it in an AA. Psa just returns. It’s better to have a genuine unaltered card in an AA than the other way around. Looks like a safety precaution where the card can still be graded.
Did you pull this card from a pack yourself? It’s unclear.
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I mean…I’d prefer they just grade the card as unaltered. Because it is. But I guess lol
I didn’t pull it from a pack but I know the person who did. I bought it from the original owner/grader. The CGC one I cracked and resubmitted I bought from eBay and even sent the original label back with it so they could deactivate the cert (and they did).
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