The Giant Professional Grading Thread

[explorer]

@azulryu

New potential Grading opportunity for people in the UK: majestygrading.com or MGC. Saw them on my insta feed and thought the logo looked nice and the case wasn’t bad upon first look. I don’t see sub-grades though. Haven’t attempted to give a thorough look so I’d suggest digging deeper than I did. They launch apparently in May so we’ll see how they look once their first few cards go through. They just finished 500 trial cards through their services.

Logo looks familiar…

I also saw slabs from another UK company called “Getgraded” start popping up on eBay lately. Competition in the industry is obviously a good thing, but will be interesting to see how many of these new companies survive long term.

[pokematt]

@pichufan Okay yah it makes more sense to go off the registration date and not the arrival date lol. So the CTD still could be somewhat accurate then… Hopefully they are done soon then!

[pluckles]

Is there a list of languages BGS and CGC accept? I’ve got some more modern cards that I want to look into grading.

[kingboo64]

@pluckles

Is there a list of languages BGS and CGC accept? I’ve got some more modern cards that I want to look into grading.

CGC accepts all of them

[quibble]

@explorer

@azulryu

New potential Grading opportunity for people in the UK: majestygrading.com or MGC. Saw them on my insta feed and thought the logo looked nice and the case wasn’t bad upon first look. I don’t see sub-grades though. Haven’t attempted to give a thorough look so I’d suggest digging deeper than I did. They launch apparently in May so we’ll see how they look once their first few cards go through. They just finished 500 trial cards through their services.

Logo looks familiar…

I also saw slabs from another UK company called “Getgraded” start popping up on eBay lately. Competition in the industry is obviously a good thing, but will be interesting to see how many of these new companies survive long term.

So that’s five UK grading companies for me to know of now:

GetGraded
MGC
PokeGrade UK
Noble Grading
UK Grading

GetGraded are the only ones currently trading, and they did have a very bumpy start, but things seem to be getting better with them.

They’re currently doing a “Butterfry” giveaway to help support children’s cancer charities and recently announced that they’re hiring more staff and doubling up on machinery to expand output.

It will be interesting to see who manages to sink or swim out of the bunch by the end of this year!

[pokestop702]

@pichufan

As a weekly update: I’m still waiting on my May Ludkins submission (June at PSA) to be graded.

In the past week PSA have graded over* 18,996 Pokémon cards bringing the 5 week average to over 99,958. Usually the PSA 9 and 10 grades are pretty level with each other, but this week over 2,000 more PSA 9 grades were seen (5,257 PSA 10 vs. 7,298 PSA 9).

To continue the usual trend, the 3 most graded cards this week were:

• Base Set unlimited Charizard #4 - 346 copies graded (1 PSA 10);
• Champion’s Path Charizard VMAX #74 - 235 copies graded (165 PSA 10);
• Champion’s Path Charizard VMAX #79 - 215 copies graded (121 PSA 10).

In terms of sets, again nothing abnormal here in the top 3 for the past week:

• Hidden Fates - 1,191 cards graded (674 PSA 10);
• Base Set unlimited - 991 cards graded (11 PSA 10);
• XY Evolutions - 791 cards graded (142 PSA 10).

There were 3,211 Charizard cards graded by PSA in the past week (16.9% of all the Pokémon cards graded in this time), of which 1,101 received PSA 10 grades and 1,024 received PSA 9 grades.

* As mentioned in previous posts, PSA’s pop report search indexing is broken and hasn’t been updated in months. A lot of newer sets are missing and need manually adding, and there will be a fair amount of sets which have been missed. If you know of any sets which do not appear when searching for “Pokemon” on PSA’s pop report which PSA have graded cards from, please link me to the set or share a certificate number with me - I’d really appreciate it.

Crazy only 11 psa10s out of 991 base unlimited cards! I knew It would be low but not that low haha

[KingPokemon]

Recorded this order on September 22, 2020. It was the 15 free sub order. Just today moved to assembly.
Only 15 cards but some heavy hitters. Can you spell UPCHARGE:(

[way2slowbro]

@pichufan

As a weekly update: I’m still waiting on my May Ludkins submission (June at PSA) to be graded.

In the past week PSA have graded over* 18,996 Pokémon cards bringing the 5 week average to over 99,958. Usually the PSA 9 and 10 grades are pretty level with each other, but this week over 2,000 more PSA 9 grades were seen (5,257 PSA 10 vs. 7,298 PSA 9).

To continue the usual trend, the 3 most graded cards this week were:

• Base Set unlimited Charizard #4 - 346 copies graded (1 PSA 10);
• Champion’s Path Charizard VMAX #74 - 235 copies graded (165 PSA 10);
• Champion’s Path Charizard VMAX #79 - 215 copies graded (121 PSA 10).

In terms of sets, again nothing abnormal here in the top 3 for the past week:

• Hidden Fates - 1,191 cards graded (674 PSA 10);
• Base Set unlimited - 991 cards graded (11 PSA 10);
• XY Evolutions - 791 cards graded (142 PSA 10).

There were 3,211 Charizard cards graded by PSA in the past week (16.9% of all the Pokémon cards graded in this time), of which 1,101 received PSA 10 grades and 1,024 received PSA 9 grades.

* As mentioned in previous posts, PSA’s pop report search indexing is broken and hasn’t been updated in months. A lot of newer sets are missing and need manually adding, and there will be a fair amount of sets which have been missed. If you know of any sets which do not appear when searching for “Pokemon” on PSA’s pop report which PSA have graded cards from, please link me to the set or share a certificate number with me - I’d really appreciate it.

Can confirm I am also waiting for Ludkins, June, July, August.

[yellowgameboycolor]

Man I have had a 20 day submission stuck in “grading” since 10/30/2020 through ludkins. Gettin kinda anxious I’m just wondering if anyone has any submissions from back in August under the same submission level still stuck at the same spot. Arrived at PSA 8/28, Research and ID 9/30, Grading 10/30. It’s only 5 cards too but they’re my favorite 5 cards

[gengarguy]

@awsmofo

Does anybody have any non express subs from Beckett they have submitted / received in past 6 or so months?

I have a 20 day, first time submitting with Beckett, back from October and have no idea if I have another 6 months to go or what to expect lol

I submitted a 20-day with them at the beginning of September and I just got the grades on March 19th (through their website). I’m not sure how long they take to actually ship the cards back to you after they have been graded, but I am expecting another 1-2 months until I have them in my hands.

[smokemon]

A buddy of mine had something sketchy happen today where he was given an offer to buy a base set Blastoise and Venusaur. What was off was that they were removed from a PSA case where they received a grade 9. We looked up the certification number on the PSA registry and both cards came back with this:

The certification number provided, #XXXXXXXX, has been intentionally DEACTIVATED in the database.

I’ve never see this before and from my research I found that a deactivation can be issued from PSA when a card was deemed to be altered.

Has anyone seen this before or provide insight into how this might happen?

[qwachansey]

I’ve seen that when a card is regraded in a graded card review, it is given a new serial number and the old one deactivated. Supposedly if you crack cards out for your binder or to regrade and send in the labels they also deactivate serials.

[mertz]

This is a BGS 8.5. (9.5 edges, 9 corners, 8.5 centering, 8.5 surface) Do we think this is worth cracking to try for a PSA 9?

[magicrap]

@mertz

This is a BGS 8.5. (9.5 edges, 9 corners, 8.5 centering, 8.5 surface) Do we think this is worth cracking to try for a PSA 9?

I would not take that risk.
Main reason being that it is very difficult to see the corner indentation from the envelope (bottom left and top right) with the case. I graded myself several masaki that got 8.5 WITH light indents and would probably get 7 with PSA.

[casual]

@magicrap

@mertz

This is a BGS 8.5. (9.5 edges, 9 corners, 8.5 centering, 8.5 surface) Do we think this is worth cracking to try for a PSA 9?

I would not take that risk.
Main reason being that it is very difficult to see the corner indentation from the envelope (bottom left and top right) with the case. I graded myself several masaki that got 8.5 WITH light indents and would probably get 7 with PSA.

Hard agree, I cracked an 8.5 and it hit a 6 at PSA

[mertz]

@casual

@magicrap

I would not take that risk.
Main reason being that it is very difficult to see the corner indentation from the envelope (bottom left and top right) with the case. I graded myself several masaki that got 8.5 WITH light indents and would probably get 7 with PSA.

Hard agree, I cracked an 8.5 and it hit a 6 at PSA

Thank you guys so much, you just saved me a lot of money. In your experience, does PSA do a better job at recognizing the Masaki mark? Have you ever seen high PSA grades with a mark that was missed like you have with BGS?

[mertz]

@mertz

@casual

Hard agree, I cracked an 8.5 and it hit a 6 at PSA

Thank you guys so much, you just saved me a lot of money. In your experience, does PSA do a better job at recognizing the Masaki mark? Have you ever seen high PSA grades with a mark that was missed like you have with BGS?

Tagging @magicrap, I’m new and still learning how the forum notification system works.

[magicrap]

@mertz

@mertz

Thank you guys so much, you just saved me a lot of money. In your experience, does PSA do a better job at recognizing the Masaki mark? Have you ever seen high PSA grades with a mark that was missed like you have with BGS?

Tagging @magicrap, I’m new and still learning how the forum notification system works.

I think it is not specifically related to masaki but more on grading criteria.
Overall, indentations are downgrading cards more at PSA than BGS. From my personal point of view, I think PSA is too harsh on masaki as those marks doesn’t impact eye appeal to a point of getting a 6.

[smokemon]

@qwachansey

I’ve seen that when a card is regraded in a graded card review, it is given a new serial number and the old one deactivated. Supposedly if you crack cards out for your binder or to regrade and send in the labels they also deactivate serials.

That definitely seems like the simplest explanation. Do people usually confirm with PSA when they crack a case?

[traineramy]

@smokemon

@qwachansey

I’ve seen that when a card is regraded in a graded card review, it is given a new serial number and the old one deactivated. Supposedly if you crack cards out for your binder or to regrade and send in the labels they also deactivate serials.

That definitely seems like the simplest explanation. Do people usually confirm with PSA when they crack a case?

Most people do not send the labels in after they crack