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Originally Posted by KeltonB
Very nice! You are right, the SS labels/holders are (to me) the best in the hobby (along with the CGC Pristine label). The DC labels are recent, and CGC says they will only be around for a limited time (how long?). I'd love to get some reholders done, but at $10 for the reholder, then $8 for the DC label, plus shipping, probably not gonna do that.
I don't think I've had any orders regress, but I did notice something - if you download the submission detail at different points in the progress, there will sometimes be different statuses listed in the Excel file than what the web page indicates, and some are statuses that aren't part of the standard set of Received, SFG, GEI, G/QC, QC/F, Shipped. I can't remember what they were, but they weren't any of those.
Anyway, I'm thinking maybe they caught some debris in a holder or a label error or something like that?
Same. I grade for PC only and always graded with BGS (especially loved the 10/10/10 deal), but they just kept getting slower and slower and CS was terrible, so I was excited when CSG announced they were doing cards. I was probably one of their first 100 submissions and have subbed exclusively with them since. I love the holders, and if they had started with the labels they have now, I think they'd have a much bigger share of the market.
I've only had one or two submission issues, so not too bad. I've had to get probably a half dozen ME done for labelling accuracy, but other than that pretty smooth - knock on wood. Glad that in the end they seem to get it right though.
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Nice. I was hoping maybe they did the same custom label thing for Marvel but I guess not. Yea $18 is a bit steep for doing it on previously graded cards, but neat to take advantage of it on these while you can! Great looking cards.
Yep CGC does pretty well in nonsports and TCG…I wonder also if it would be accepted more in sports if they didn’t start with the different label and just started off with 10 = gem mint from the get go; which they always should have done. I also wonder if it would take some people to just hold a CGC slab in person just once to realize how nice they are, in order to convert them haha. But I get it that PSA 10’s have the prestige, and all the people set on the registries in PSA, they won’t be dethroned in sports anytime soon.
Agree about sig series and pristine labels being one thing setting CGC apart from some of the competition. The best is when they come together…did get one of these in that 10 card sub at least.
Hmm interesting about the status being called something different. Mine just changed *again* when I just checked it. So it went from GEI to Quality Control/Finalization, back to GEI, and now it is saying merely Grading/Quality control, without the encaps or imagine part. Sheesh. Wonder if these will ever get graded and figured out.