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I had the same issue my order which i sent 10 days later is on the way while the early order is ready for grading. I thought they worked on orders as they come in?

how long it stay in qc/finalized

Maybe I am in the minority but I like CSG strict grading and the price point at $12 buck a card is just right for the cards i am submitting. I got back about 500 cards back so far and 90% have been 9 or 9.5 and five 10s. The turnaround times are improving. In terms PSA, it still may be a while before Value tier opens up, based on PSA podcast they still have 5.8 million cards in backlog. The resale value is a concern but over time this should also improve. good luck with your submissions

I agree resell value for CSG is very low at this point however, turnaround times are significantly better than PSA and Beckett. I have 5 bulk orders returned from CSG and it is about 6 months however PSA and Beckett are over a year now. My PSA order from Jan of 2021 is still being researched. Price point also makes sense for some submitters.

thats really helpful, I didnt know the highest grade can only be 1 point higher than the lowest sub grade.

I haven't got the card back yet, so will post more when the card comes in. My issue is more with the overweighting of the surface category. the other 3 grades are solid at 9,9,7 but still only got a 4.5 overall.

Just got this Serena Williams card back from CSG. Sub grades are: Corners 9 Centering 9 Edges 7 Surface 4 The overall grade was 4.5. CSG seems very harsh on surface and there seems to be an overweighting of the surface category. With 9's for centering and corners I expected the overall grade to be higher. What are others experience on surfaces grading?

Just got this Kobe card back from CSG with a solid 9.5 grade. There are only 7 PSA 10 grades of this card in the pop report.

how do you save the CSG images, when i click on the image, it states the image is copyrighted.

I got my last bulk order which was received 9/27 and sent 1/27, which was about 100 business day. No bad turnaround time given it was listed at 165 days and PSA and beckett turnaround times for bulk are over 1 year.

eBay Launches Authentication for Trading Cards and they will be using CSG to authenticate cards. Some big news for CSG.

I got back 301 CSG cards back so far and 85% were 9 or 9.5 and 4 were a 10. All the cards were over 20 years old. Acceptable grade however CSG seems very tough on the surface grade.

I did a quick search to see the number of graded cards on ebay for each of the major grading companies. Below are the approximate results: PSA - 141,862 BGS - 23,705 SGC - 16,134 CSG - 4,004 HGA - 2,652 I was a bit surprised to see BGS number so low relative to PSA. Can any of these companies catch PSA in the next 5 years? .

The only reason why I submitted to CSG is because PSA and BGS services for lower tiers are suspended right now. The $30 price point for SGC is too high for the cards I am submitting so I gave CSG a try. So far I got back 230 cards and only got two 10s and 85% of the rest of the cards with 9 or 9.5. The cases look great but the low resell value continues to be a concern. And while there have been lots of complaints about turnaround time at CSG, 6 months for bulk is not bad considered PSA and BGS are over a year right now. For the cards I am submitting the price makes sense.

Below is the timeline for the 3 bulk orders I have received so far.