if its a charizard, its almost guaranteed bump. if its a 1st edition base ponyta you can send bulk and wait. Just depends on if you want to submit, wait a long time and still pay the faster turn around time pricing.
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Not often I get to add to my personal collection but today’s return was hot. it feels good to move on from doing the wotc subs into the nintendo ereaders. For those who don’t know I am working on every ereader holo in BGS 9 flat. I would have done 9.5 but some of those wotc ones get pricey so 9 it is (maybe if they didnt change the label on me at 9.5)
Wailord may just have to stay though even though he isnt that silver label to start a wailmer/wailord sub collection.
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Did Ludkins get rid of their tracker? My pending orders (and all others) are no longer showing.
My completed orders were removed, one order updated to grading this week, the others still in research and ID.
I’d email Ludkins if your unfinished orders are no longer there.
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My October 2020 order has moved from RID to Grading as of this morning as well. Some good news finally
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Some more official word regarding the CGC pop report:
TL;DR - early February at the latest.
I think it was clearly just an issue of priorities. Even if it made sense from an HR perspective, it seems insane to me to have invested in the R&D necessary to add 11 flash-in-the-pan TCGs to their repertoire before having even released a pop report for Pokemon/MTG. Not a good look, IMO, though I’m happy the pop report finally appears to actually be on its way.
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It will be interesting to see the pop reports, @zorloth. I am particularly curious about the MTG cards as well as the 9.5+ WOTC era Pokemon cards, mainly to compare to BGS pops and to a lesser extent the PSA pops. I’m pretty confident that in regards to higher grade MTG cards that most are under 10 pop if not less. I say this simply because I’ve bought several MTG CGC slabs over the past year and the ones I have bought have been the only ones I’ve seen for sale ever and I tend to look almost daily. I actually plan at some point to send the CGC slabs to BGS as I feel they will either easily cross-grade or possibly go up in grade (I just much prefer the BGS slab with MTG cards). Also I have to admit, the blue CGC label with my red back Charizard looks a little tacky as well all though I love the clarity of the slab itself so I may cross it to BGS as well once things become more opened up.
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BGS has the best labels and CGC has the best cases – I wish there was some hybrid of the two haha.
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For sure - I’m probably be a little unfair towards the CGC slab. I like the label with some cards, but it can definitely clash with certain cards overall. Anyway, not the end of the world and it’s been discussed to death at this point. The main thing is, I feel that once the grading backlogs clear that CGC should remain as a 3rd option as they’ve seemed to have built a pretty good rep overall so far and the pop report will give some confidence and help build markets better for these cards going forward.
I prefer the BGS case to the CGC one by far, I love the bulkiness and the sharp edges. It’s that horrible fucking inner sleeve I can’t get over but seeing this ridiculously epic display by @wisewailmer almost makes me forget about that for a moment.
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Comparing the 2009 Design Contest, 2010 Design Contest and 2015 Art Academy contest cards graded by PSA since January 1st 2020:
- 5x 2009 Design Contest cards have been graded (9.8% increase);
- 62x 2010 Design Contest cards have been graded (15.31% increase)*;
- 130x 2015 Art Academy contest cards have been graded (44.07% increase).
Looking at the total number of copies graded by PSA vs card distribution, where the distribution is believed to be 100 for both the 2009 Design Contest and 2015 Art Academy contest and 200** for the 2010 Design Contest:
- 4.31% of the 2009 Design Contest cards have been graded (13 cards; 56/1,300);
- 23.35% of the 2010 Design Contest cards have been graded (10 cards; 467/2,000)*;
- 19.32% of the 2015 Art Academy contest cards have been graded (22 cards; 425/2,200).
Finally if we then consider the lows and highs per card in the set:
- 2009 Design Contest: 3 low, 5 high (4 median);
- 2010 Design Contest: 41 low, 63 high (45 median)*;
- 2015 Art Academy contest: 0 low, 62 high (14 median).
* Note that the 2010 Design Contest figures excludes the Chosen Entry cards which also belong to the set. These were awarded individually to the 660 top participants and weren’t exclusively awarded to the winners of the contest.
** The official distribution for the 2010 Design Contest was 100, but recently it came to light that one of the winners received 200 cards of featuring their design (see Winners of the 2010 Design Contest received 200 cards).
It’s also worth noting that since January 1st 2020 I’ve graded 2 2009 Design Contest cards with CGC and another was graded with BGS. However without access to a pop report (CGC) or a working one (BGS) it’s unknown to me if any other 2009 Design Contest cards have been graded, or how many 2010 Design Contest and 2015 Art Academy cards may have been graded through those companies in the same timeframe.
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Haha wait till you see all 6 ereader sets in their display case! (probably will take me forever though)
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Do you remember when your went into RID? Just wondering if there is light at the end of the tunnel for me haha
I want to say February? But I’m not sure. It took a long time to get there lol
Anyone remember that announcement that PSA was going to start using inner sleeves? Or was I dreaming?
I don’t think they’ve started doing it yet. The wording was specifically internal sleeve, but I’m not sure if it’ll be an actual sleeve or something similar, like what the sports guys refer to as the “card condom” (lol), or maybe something akin to the sheets that DSG use inside their slabs.
Yes, and it does not impact Pokemon TCG items. They do now use an inner plastic backing for thinner cards (96/97 Carddass, YGO, etc).
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Can confirm. Have a newly graded Pele sticker and it has the inner sleeve and a whole bunch of newton rings
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This week was another one where PSA graded over 70k cards. Not quite the 78,175 from 3 weeks ago, but 71,276 still puts this way out ahead in second place for the most Pokémon graded in a single week (pokemetrics.org/stats).
With 2,726,544 Pokémon in total now graded by PSA, the entire Pokémon pop report has almost doubled (+99.74%) from where it was 12 months ago at 1,365,013. If we compare that to the 12 months prior to that where the yearly increase was 321,387, PSA has graded over 4 times more Pokémon this year compared to last year. In fact, more Pokémon were graded by PSA in the past 7 weeks alone than in the entirety of 2020.
The Japanese Illustration Grand Prix Charizard was the most graded card this week with 1,478 copies graded and 1,299 of those achieving PSA 10 grades (pokemetrics.org/sets/3rot/2d1zt).
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