CGC and their partner company CSG (for sports) are now becoming a single entity. TCGs will be graded by TCG experts and sports cards will graded by sports card experts.
Cards previously graded Gem Mint 9.5 are now Gem Mint 10, 9.5s will still be given for future cards
Other .5 graded cards will remain unchanged
No more Perfect 10s will be graded, recases will be downgraded to Pristine
Pristine 10 is highest grade
Sub-Grades will not be offered
Recase option
CGC Cards will lower the reholder fee to just $5 until September 30, 2023 (cards under $10,000). Any Gem Mint 9.5 will be upgraded to Gem Mint 10 grade
New fees
Prices will be announced soon. Starting sometime in mid-July, the official change will happen and all cards received on or after that date get the new grading scale and label. An announcement will come.
Sub-Grades will also no longer be offered. While Sub-Grades have a small group of loyal fans, over time they have become far less popular with submitters. In recent months, fewer than 5% of submissions included a request for Sub-Grades.
I personally couldn’t care less about subgrades, but do they not realize that the reason they used to be popular was because they used to only charge a few extra dollars?
Of course subgrades become less popular when it’s literally double the normal bulk grading fee to add subgrades - especially when the vast majority of the cards they receive are cheap flips.
Woah color me surprised! This would destroy me if I had a significant collection of CGC. But I own only 2 CGC cards that I really want to keep ATM so I think I can spare 10$ to cross. I could see this being huge for 9.5 collectors they all got free upgrades! Though as always anyone who bought CGC 10s in the past get the shaft
CGC is putting all of their eggs in one basket, and this could be what kills them and alienates their fan base to go somewhere else. It takes major balls to go back to the drawing board, I like it personally, but then again, I have no position in CGC.
I always said the label is what stopped me from using CGC, so now with it being less colorful I will absolutely use CGC more. Plus bgs keeps screwing me and their customer service is ass
Very surprised and a huge disappointment for me. Almost all the graded Chanseys in my collection are CGC with subgrades (which I really like having). Any new graded Chansey cards will stick out terribly.
The label is also ugly imo. I preferred their first style. Getting rid of subgrades is shocking.
I complained about the label in the past (how the blue clashes with certain cards), but I think I dislike this even more. Now it really just looks like a junk slab backyard label to me. At least before it was very distinct and in line with the existing CGC comic label.
Even though I’ve been fine with collecting CGC slabs, I’m glad I don’t have a lot tied into it. The newer label before this was getting better, they really just needed to tweak the Pristine/Perfect label IMO.
