Anyone else send shipments in to CGC that got processed almost immediately? My LCS owner sent a box 3 weeks and when I was in the shop the other day he noticed it was in grading. I told him it was probably just a fluke. Both he and I have multiple boxes that have been sitting for months like normal.
Well a couple days later those books had grades and are confirmed shipped back to him. Another shipment they received from him from 4 days ago went into grading yesterday.
I’m wondering if they have opened the new facility they bought and these new shipments are getting rerouted there and ending up with quicker turnaround times.
Maybe they got the warehouse packers and shippers to start grading books. I mean, with their reputation on actual grading, seems like anyone can do it!
One thought I had was that if it is a whole new facility not connected to the first one there might be a significant logistics in moving already checked in inventory to the new place.
I saw a post in another group where CGC is trying out a new production process (a trial) for quicker turnaround. I don’t know what it involves but I saw the memo from CGC to a customer.
Bottom line is there will be a few customers affected by this new production process and thus getting their books back in super record time as has been the case here and there.
Sweet… I need to make an app where you scan your book with your phone, it spits out a grade, if you like it, you pay for the slab and label to be shipped to you. I’m gonna be a billionaire with your idea… Thanks!
I sent in two comics for the first time ever in August and based on all other accounts I didn’t expect them until February next year. I read this thread yesterday and thought I should check just incase mine are back early. I got out of work and had a voicemail that same day that they were back.
I used to do a lot of prescreen boxes but after the price increase I quit doing them. Not only did the price increase but the turnaround for prescreen went from +10 days to +30 days.
I just do regular submissions now. Most of the time the 9.6 version would have been worth it or just a slight loss anyway.
I called them out on their last signing announcment and they responed saying that it is a different section/department within CGC that handles the siginings. To which I said…they are CGC employees who should have their labor allocated towards the extemely high backlog of comics that have been sitting all year in their warehouse. It should be all hands on deck to get caught up…they did not respond a 2nd time…
In all fairness, you wouldn’t bring in people from other departments to do a very specific job that requires training. There might be a few people, who, over time, could get the knowledge and training to do that job function, but more than likely they were hired for a specific skill or purpose. Operations, sales, IT, all have very different personalities and skill sets, and not always are cross functional.
I just see a lot of flaws in your plan to have “all hands on deck” grading comics. Now, if those departments are not supporting the operations group with everything they can do, improving their processes to better help that group, then we can call them out on that.
