Originally Posted by Zan (Post 2189351)

Heard the news through an SGC group.

Bulk sub prices are dropping from $25/card to $24/card

A $50/card 5 day submission is being implemented. Not sure how this will conflict with their service that takes 1-2 days, imo it pretty much makes it obsolete.

Idk, not that's excited about this one

Originally Posted by parkplace33 (Post 2189486)

A $50/card 5 day submission is being implemented. This one intrigues me and how much action they get. The knock on grading companies recently is turnaround times.

Originally Posted by YankeeHotelFoxtrot (Post 2188549)

Accurate grading? Compared with the other two of the BIG 3, SGC is by far the most accurate.

Originally Posted by BobC (Post 2188500)

One of the biggest problems in this hobby is that no TPG should have been allowed to determine their own grading standards, and then go even further and to then change them as they saw fit over time. One single set of agreed upon standards should have been set by the people in the hobby, and the TPGs should have had to seek approval and accreditation from whatever group spoke for the people in the hobby. Not the TPGs, not the dealers, and not the people/companies originally printing out price guides and other hobby publications years ago that often included their ideas of what the grading standards should be. And each and every TPG certified and accredited by the overriding hobby group setting the standards should have to adhere to those standards, be transparent in all they do in regards to grading (in other words, when a customer paying for grading asks why a card got a lower grade than expected, they should be given a complete, full answer), certainly not be able to charge grading fees based on a contingent percentage of a card's perceived value (doing so can cause the grading service to not be viewed as independent and unbiased, and it should take about the same time and effort to grade a '52 Topps Mantle as it does to grade an '87 Topps common, so why the difference in grading fees), and also be required to undergo some type of independent, periodic, third-party review of their grading, and if found to be deficient, their certification as an approved TPG should be subject to suspension, or even forfeiture.