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Rufuss C. Kingston

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  1. New CGC case, you seal it yourself!! Now if I could just find my trusty old sonic welder hiding in the mess that is my garage! I think the tape accents the label perfectly!!
  2. Not sure if I did the best job at sealing it since I don't have my own sonic welder ;) How does this happen? And how come there are no pics showing on the Cert lookup?
  3. You submit them to SCG, BGS or PSA... CGC does not grade them... Is it worth it...... you would have to consider the condition and look at eBay sales to see values.
  4. Ask to have it graded as Authentic (you get an A instead of a number grade) Giving a kid a card graded a 3 would be a sucky gift once they get older and realize it is considered junk.....
  5. CGC grades pokemon of any language if it is an official release. if it is not auto-populated on the submissions form, then you just have to type it manually. https://www.cgccards.com/card-grading/cards-we-grade/
  6. Marvel Masterpieces Cards are not a game, they are just trading cards, and while CGC Trading Cards has Trading Cards in its name, the only cards they grade are all from TCG's.... Trading Card GAME....
  7. Ouch, what kind of cards did you send in.... Basically what ever you sent are fakes!
  8. Well I don't understand why you wouldn't still submit raw/ungraded cards to CGC unless they are $500+ value cards worth submitting to PSA at $150 a pop. You'll only be punishing yourself as now you have nowhere to send raw cards....
  9. I'm just dumbfounded that someone with a PSA 9 anything would ever crossover to CGC, as PSA has the highest value of all graded pokemon per grade. At the very least you should have specified a minimum grade of 9.5 before they cracked it (if you can, I know for PSA crossovers you can). A CGC 8 is worth somewhere between a PSA 7 and 8! And then they found out it was Inked, which PSA didn't notice. Figure this crossover cost you $200-$300 in value compared to just leaving it a PSA 9. A CGC 9.5 would have probably only netted you maybe $100 more in value..... I'd think that only people with BGS and SGC, and other oddball slabs are crossing over to CGC, at least without a min grade requested.
  10. We all know that older OPC cards have rough edges due to the method of card cutting that was used at the factory. Am I wrong to assume that like PSA and BGS (and I suppose SCG), that CSG has a semi-lenient edge grading method for OPC cards since they all come rough cut. As is known, most of the time any OPC cards that have very smooth edges is because they are sheet cut. So does everyone think that the edges on this 1980-81 OPC Gretzky #250 is really deserving of a 5.5 grade on the edges?
  11. The grader is the Authenticator. There is someone who checks submissions to make sure the card name/number entered is correct for the card submitted, but they don't verify if it is real, though it's possible they could tell, that is not their roll in the "workflow". We don't pay grading/authentication fees for random CGC employees opinions, only for random cgc grader employees opinions, which in turn represent the "secure" opinion of CGC, the company! And at the end of the day, it is not an "Authentication Only" service that you want CGC to start, because technically they already have that. What you need is for them to come up with an "Authentic but Altered" service/label which they don't have currently and is the reason for the lack of encapsulation of your cards. Paul was a little harsh in grouping your cards in the altered to deceive (clipped) category, but as mentioned previously, if your cards were encapsulated authentic, then there would be no way of someone other than yourself to know that the corners on the cards were rounded and are not original. (again, level of authenticity)
  12. You should never see a CGC slab with a AC designation because AC means Altered Card (or altered in a way that it prevents encapsulation), and AC cards don't get slabbed, only altered cards with a Green Label, but those would not be considered AC by CGC.
  13. You just don't get it. You asked them to authenticate the cards, however, because the cards were "trimmed"/dimensionally altered (not to deceive though), they are NO LONGER authentic as far as CGC is concerned. One of the standards for a card to be deemed authentic by CGC is that the card is dimensionally the same as it was when issued by the manufacturer, except in instances of mfg error/miscut. You basically handcut the card, and thus it is no longer authentic, because as I said previously, if CGC deemed it authentic, then they are deeming the modifications you made as authentic. CGC does NOT have a Green Label qualifier of "dimensions altered", so thus you can't get a grade of Authentic Altered. And stop talking about not paying for a graders opinion and paying for a 3rd party company's secure opinion. They are interchangeable and mean the same thing.... The title of you post is incorrect, they DO encapsulate authenticated cards, it should say they don't encapsulate Authentic cards that have had the dimensions altered by hand! Alas as I said, because the cards have changed dimensions, CGC does not consider them authentic from an official stance, only in jest if they tell you in email, but they will not slab it and guarantee it. Again, when you spoke with customer service on the phone asking about getting the cards authenticated, were you adamant in telling them that you had mutilated the cards dimensions by hand that you were going to send them? As it stands, you paid for and got a "secure" (in quotes because not slabbed) opinion..... The opinion being that the cards are dimensionally altered, thus NOT authentic per CGC's policies.
  14. This post is flawed as there is no mention of what types of cards this is referring to.... Like any WOTC era holo 8.5 isn't going to sell for under $20! We'll assume a $15 grading cost baseline.
  15. CGC does authenticate cards, cause they wouldn't encapsulate a fake card. But I don't believe CGC encapsulates cards where the dimensions are altered, or for the most part "hand cut" cards. I believe that as a matter of standards, CGC does NOT slab anything that has been trimmed or altered dimension wise. What you are asking for is a "grade" of Authentic Altered, but that is not a grade that CGC offers. Yes, other companies do, but just because they do doesn't mean CGC automatically does. When you called in, were you VERY specific that you were going to submit altered/mutilated (jk) cards? When you made your submission, did you put somewhere that you wanted them graded as Authentic altered? CGC could NOT just encapsulate them as Authentic because that would not imply that they were altered, rather that would imply that they were legit as issued cards, and again, they don't offer an altered authentic designation. As far as the grader is concerned, he was given cards to grade and during grading "discovered" that they were altered, thus you got back the cards with altered flips in card savers as they were not eligible for encapsulation, just like when PSA sends cards back as min size or not authentic. The grader took time to look and investigate/grade your cards, thus you got to pay the man!! Unfortunately you expected a service that CGC just does not offer and doesn't say on the website that they do. (Again, I don't know how specific you were with CGC on the phone, but in reality this is something that should have been done over email so there was a track record for recourse, if warranted...)