Recent slab pickups / grading

[George_Calfas]

@jmc855 855 nice


Some slabs from back in November 2022 not sure if I ever posted
Many sold many just shoved into my eBay store
Think November is when I went silent to handle health stuff
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Jeff, how goes it?
What’s going on with BGS and PSA for turnaround times. Heard you have an order(s) really delayed. Hope you can get it resolved soon.

 

[jeffv96masters]

Sorry George- been slow to respond as work has been low staffed due to lots of sick people, me making up lost time and training staff, and life being life

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PSA - quick once entered into their system. Use them of the top 4 if you need stuff back say within 3 months
Personally- I am behind by months just like every other PSA tier subber on poppages and on entries
As you are no doubt aware- cheaper pricing, longer wait times, but they come back in barrages

One thing I will recommend is high DPI scans pre-submission of your stuff in case of any claims
Seen lots of damaged items post sub from them that required CRC claims
Enough said there


BGS- nowhere near their publicly stated times- and I do mean nowhere near
Merely look at 9 of the first 10 posts on the below link
I am not employed there, so I couldn't care less the why behind it

Beckett Message Boards - Beckett Grading Services (BGS)

I've not been active on message boards due to work/health lately, but you can get the picture reading the posts
I don't know whats going on there at BGS, and I'm not in a rush anyways, so I just go with the flow
I sit and wait like the rest of the people waiting months on end for my subs to pop

I can say I have BGS stuff that was "supposed" to pop in 20 business days now in the hundreds of days
It's called "busy season" and it is no surprise to me they are that far behind, despite being the least subbed
to company of the major 4 right now.

As for the NDA violator you sent me going on that Facebook rant- no comment

I do not sub to SGC -may try them on a few vintage items in the near future
I do like their slabs on the vintage stuff. Not fond of the new labels

I also have not used CGC/CSG, but I do have a close hobby friend who uses them for Pokemon and other TCG stuff. Says the slabs look great and bring out the cards. His opinion of course. Too new for me to pass a judgment call on them, and I don't know if I'll try a sub -- yet. Still deciding. I have seen the TCG stuff in their slabs and it does look nice The labels- well, needs some adjustment. I think all 4 major companies really have poor label choices

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Some recent PSA slabs back. Put most in my eBay store
From a cheap Covid buy that cost me $25 delivered that I still have more to slab on
Already got my money back plus some on the buy
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[WizardofOz1982]

I do not sub to SGC -may try them on a few vintage items in the near future
I do like their slabs on the vintage stuff. Not fond of the new labels.

I'm using SGC almost exclusively these days. They're consistently turning cards around in 12 days door to door for me the last couple months for $18 a card.

 

[Tibor]

Last June I sent SGC 140+ T-206's plus another 10 pre 1970 cards. Subed them thru "Got Baseball Cards"
in Atlanta. Was supposed to be a 3 week turn around. Got them back in 11 days. Very happy with the results.
I will use them again. Not much price difference in commons that grade 3 or 4 between SGC and PSA.

 

[jeffv96masters]

@WizardofOz1982 and @Tibor thanks for some personal experience feedback on them. It will take some time for me to gather what I want subbed there to SGC as stuff is spread over 2 states
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More football and baseball back from the past couple months of bulks slowly returning. A couple pre-sold to my regulars off line, and a bunch on feebay, and in some now in my store
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[jeffv96masters]

More scanned slabs back- lots were football that never made it back in season- oh well
The Leaf Cert were pack fresh from 2018 breaks. Soft corner on the Mac did it in grade wise- otherwise it was spot on
Mannings are from my QB stash over the years
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[jeffv96masters]

Also @WizardofOz1982 I am looking forward to seeing scans of your Musconi ( amongst others) from PSA

Back at the inventory stuff for a little bit now that I am feeling better
At the same time I am addressing some issues that haven't been looked at for quite a while that were on my plate

I sent a few stragglers to BGS recently I came across, and what came back was surprising
I consider myself a Playoff / DLP junkie, the same as Michael aka @magicpapa does with Upper Deck

I had the below item just sitting in my grading pile from the 2003 Playoff Portraits memorabilia series, so I sent it in
While I frankly didn't go hard core into collecting this series, instead just plucking items here and there, I do know the series.
Maybe not as intimately as many who did all the autos and jerseys. But enough I'm not an amateur

It came back " card coming apart"

Um- yeah. They were designed to be pulled apart- it's why its called the "PERSONAL TOUCH" series
Collectors are supposed to be able to pull the memorabilia or autos out. Authentic ones have verification
And a bunch of other facts about them I'm aware of

So I now have an email into the powers who be there at Beckett / BGS to discuss the situation
I sent in the below backup and some comments and hopefully the sharing of info will assist me to learn more
Just because it's "loose" doesn't mean it should be discounted or downgraded- or not slabbed in this case
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And some more slabs from that series as well now scanned
I do have to locate more of my #141 Red Sox stuff and see about both # 15 Yanks and # 141 Red Sox samples & promos as well
I could swear I have a box full of stuff somewhere just haven't located it in the messes
Many of the Yanks versions are jersey # versions just worked out that way on eBay
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