The Giant Professional Grading Thread

this is wild to me, my submission from march 2021 (230G-H) went into grading 3-4 months ago

Yea I had a 3 bulks I sent in January and February of 2021 come back last few weeks. That backlog was nuts…it was like 13 million cards at one point which to put in perspective - I don’t think BGS has even graded 13 million yet total since they been but bulk is the cheapest and typical wait times were always 3-6 months.

They are fairly caught up now….you can get them back in 7-10 days but gotta pay for it :wink:

Double post by accident (trying to figure out taptalk)

Anyone have an estimate of how long it takes a PSA order to go from “shipping” to my door if I’m using Ludkins Middleman service? It was listed as shipped about 2-3 weeks ago from PSA and am just waiting for some sort of email from ludkins to confirm that they at least got the package and that it wasn’t lost in the mail. Thanks!

Can we make a thread for “help me predict a grade” and keep this thread more focussed on PSA updates, CGC shills, Middleman ETA, ect… this thread was formed due to the ludkins thread closing, now its a lot of pictures of people wanting internet wizards to predict grades. While i know the knowledge we wizards possess is valuable and should be shared, i would love to see a thread specifically for that!

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My last order was marked as “shipping” in the Ludkins tracker 2 weeks after I got it. Other CGC orders or my order with Polaris (uses same order tracker) were 4 days to 2 months, but there were staffing issues for a while earlier this year. In other words, there isn’t really an answer, depends on a lot of factors, including whether you’re US or UK.

They’re very responsive usually so just send an email and see if they have an update. Personally I’d probably wait until the 1 month mark.

Seconded!

@parkermrparker, @kazambolt Done!

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My Ludkins bulk order from December 2020 just shipped from PSA. Finally.

Now to wait for the Ludkins returns email.

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So is this supposed to be an OC error that wasn’t labeled or did they give this card at least a 9 on centering?

www.cgccards.com/certlookup/4026537017/

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Rip

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Beckett has upgrade his service price and turnaround times.
I found it on Instagram post.
no post from Beckett or notice, why is he on social media if he doesn’t even warn for such important news?

Standard
no sub rise from 30$ ->40$ ( Beckett probably notice a lot of collectors submit without sub because their goal is pristine 10)
Turnaround times decrease from 3-6 months to 20-30 business days.

Economy :

35$ sub
25$ no sub
90-120 business days turnaround time (as the previously standard)

Thoughts?

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They have been extremely fast recently for me. Not that it really matters in this market

Pretty decent to be honest, compared to PSA prices…

They have basically same price.

50$ 3 months turnaround times. This turnaround times could be less, but officially is 3 months.

if PSA will follow the same model as BGS I expect :

Economy 50$ 1 month turnaround time.

Value 30-35$ 3 months turnaround times.

Am I missing something? Last time I checked it was 100$ regular service on PSA, no economy service, and 50$ economy service for collectors club subscribers on special events. Did they lower the prices? I thought the cheapest available service was regular for 100$, the cheaper services were not available anymore

Yes, you missed their announcement a week or so ago. $50 Economy open to all with no limits. Browse their site direct, middleman sites likely don’t reflect that yet.

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Nice really nice thank you!! Have a few cards waiting for this to submit

If you mean the name of service you are right.

But what I mean is turnaround times/price.

You can call it express, super express, mega, iper, whatever. I don’t care. I just care about turnaround times.

PSA 3 months turnaround times cost 50$.
BGS 3-4 months turnaround times cost 50$-40$


For all Collectors club members or even those without it?

How grading companies will grade this card?