Do you guys think surges in submissions and added delays hurt or help grades?

Curious any updates from submitting at philley in early March?

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I have one order back already and another that is still just "received"

I’m at 15 days after submitting on 3/14 at the Dallas show

Hoping the 20 days mean I get cards by next Friday

Yeah, my receipt from 2/12 states "5-10 days". And now this is business day #30 since it was marked received.

I'd email....but I don't want to bog down their time responding to pointless emails instead of getting to the actual grading...

How long
 

After entering "post grading" before you typically get grades?

Business day #38. I did end up emailing, and got a generic reply stating that "certain orders involve cards that require a bit more in-depth research to ensure they are accurately identified and meet the SGC Guarantee."

Granted....my orders often fall into this category. But I usually see *some* movement as items get shifted around, marked "do not grade," etc.

I am a month in today (22 business days) from when I handed them my cards at a show on March 22. Dead in the water status

Today is Business Day #19 for my 18-Card Order, and it looks like it just went to Post-Grading; I'm guessing It'll ship this afternoon or tomorrow. FWIW- the estimate was 5-10 days when I sent these.

Business day #24, still sitting as Received. I really don't like where this is likely headed for the hobby.

A SGC Facebook Group posted yesterday that they are receiving too many posts about SGC delays and have banned those posts for the time being. Is it really that bad?

I get the sense that yes, it is getting bad. Just no clue how SGC lets this happen given everything that has gone on in the last 12 months. But by God let's run a greedy promo in the midst of all this, be at every major show, and proceed to make it all wor$e.

This is what happens when people send one crappy card after another that shouldn't be graded. If I see one more 69 Clemente in an SGC 3 holder I'm gonna puke!

SGC isn't capable of handling PSA's runoff from now taking 65-75 business days. The holding company has clearly decided to not increase staff at either to handle demand despite huge submission numbers, so the customer will suffer, and we'll continue to see amazing craftsmanship such as this...

An SGC 3 Clemente is perfectly fine. Those are cards that collectors still want. It’s the 2025 shiny crap that is holding up the line. SGC Shouldn’t touch anything in a year that begins with a two.

Even a two month turnaround time is light years ahead of PSA. Guess we should be thankful, huh?

I just finished telling a friend of mine the same thing.

Mine's been all over the map. Sometimes it's 2-3 days, even though I've been told that's long/not typical. Once it was longer than that and I had to reach out. I think it's only ever been shorter than two days one time.

I have an order there now and it has been in post-grading for two days and counting. I was part of the 5-10 business-day times and on Day 22 overall since received.

I'm finally on day 2 of post-grading. Tomorrow will be Day 43 overall.
(and a few of mine they chose not to grade....part of me wonders if that was because it'd take more time to do so...)

SGC processing
 

SGC took a handful of cards from me at the Strongsville show, which were
back at their offices on April 11. I paid at the $15/card for 15-20 day
turnaround rate. I won't mind if they are a day or two off when the time
comes. It would be a bad thing if it gets to the "Will I even be alive when
these cards arrive at my home?" stage- that's PSA's claim to fame.

Trent King

This is the first SGC order I've had in a while where they actually graded everything. I usually have one or two that they don't.

The time I was stuck in post-grading hell, they told me it was because a few of the cards were odd shapes and required special cuts. Fingers crossed that I'm out of post-grading tomorrow.

I gave SGC 17 cards at the Chantilly Show on April 5th. The SGC rep mentioned that it might be well into May before I got my cards back. Especially as there were some "unusual" cards in my sub, I told the rep, "no problem," because accuracy is more important than speed to me.

My order is complete and shipping back to me. They must have saw my post 2 days ago haha j/k.. very pleased overall with my order, except for one shocker. My order was 30 standard cards, mostly pre war. I threw in a 1980 Topps Henderson rc and it came up as counterfeit.. why anyone would counterfeit this card or anything 1980s is beyond me. The card looked mint-ish to my eye and was hoping for a 8 or 9 ��

Hope everyone else waiting starts to see some movement

I had a group of 18 check in yesterday. Now I guess we'll see what happens.

Looks like my cards will end up coming back Saturday.

So 30 business days, or 6 weeks.

Honestly, still much faster than PSA and the grades came back better than expected, so no complaints here.

Hoping they will improve their times after the special that ran, but I’m re-setting my expectations to 4-6 weeks for now.

It's because that card is worth a boatload in a PSA 10. It's exponentially worth more than others in the set. Collectors are always looking for high-grade examples of it. In a 10, it's worth six figures.

Cards dropped off March 23 at the White Plains show, just got into post-grading today.

My cards were received 3-20 graded 4-16 and sitting in post since. Not sure if the blanket is holding up the order or what🤷🏻 just 6 cards total.

James G

3/25/25 received, 4/22/25 graded and arriving back on Monday. Hopefully they can ride this wave and get back to their bread and butter.

Argh. Another month goes by and still no grades. But at least it's in post-grade processing....

(submitted on 2/12)

Stuck in post-grading processing limbo. This part seems far longer than usual (it's been at least 2 weeks in limbo). The order is now on business day #56, still waiting to see my grades...

**EDIT** It finally shipped, and grades posted. Phew!

SGC processing times
 

Trying to keep up with the spirit of the original post. My cards submitted
at Strongsville are now a business week behind the "20" day part of the
15-20 day turnaround. Not great, especially given my track record with SGC
turnarounds. Still not a disaster yet. Hoping to see posted grades this week.

Trent King

PS- my submission was <10 cards with no unusual sizes or obscure sets.

My batch of 15 standard size cards was received by SGC on 4/12, and still just shows as "Received". As others here have expressed... very disappointing.

I submitted 9 standard cards at Strongsville, marked received 4/13, and they just moved to post grading 5/19.

I submitted six cards at the Strongsville show on Friday, 4/11. They were marked Received that day and nothing has changed 27 business days later. One odd sized card, but not oversized. This is annoying.

I submitted mine 4/4 at Chantilly, realistically they got them back to grade 4/9. Currently still in post processing.

SGC busier than ever? I thought they were dying and getting phased out lol.

Walkthrough Received and turned around today (Got a number of emails, all at the same time - receipt, refund, and tracking) - was too fragile to slab, so that more than likely influenced the turnaround.

SGC processing times
 

HOF Forever- You and I are in the same boat, my submissions from the
Strongsville show were also 4/11. Just today I got a note on my SGC account
that the cards were graded May 19. Neither the grades nor the photos show
on the dashboard yet, though.

SGC definitely exceeded their turnaround time on this one. I'd estimate I'll
have the cards in hand just after Memorial Day. Not a disaster, just out of
character based on previous interactions with them.

Trent King

Trent,

Looks like I spoke it into existence. My submission changed to Post-Grading yesterday. Still no pictures or grades but at least it's progress.

Re: SGC
 

My Strongsville submission was mailed back to me Monday.

That same weekend of Strongsville, SGC was taking submissions at 3 other Trade shows... so 4 total shows that weekend alone.

Must have hit them pretty hard, but my cards finally moved to "post grading" yesterday (still no published grades). At least it's a sign of progress. :rolleyes:

Mine are shipping out today, so only a day in post grading. 29 business day turnaround time total.

I'm still in recieved mode from the Dallas show drop off

Submitted 4/16, received 4/23 no movement.

Had 5 show received since 4-22-25, today, 5-23-25 went to post-grading. Went for the 15-20 turn around time.
So what would happen if someone pays for the immediate service? it shows 1-2 day turn around time. I'm guessing there is no way that can be accurate? I'd sure hate to pay all that extra and still wait days or weeks. Anyone know the true turn around time on their "immediate" service.

Immediate Service is meeting the stated deadline.

I can confirm. Immediate service is still fast.

15 card order
 

I submitted 15 cards...mixture of T206s and golden age vintage at Strongsville on April 12th. Received them today. So about 6 weeks.

Still months quicker than PSA.

I haven't looked at the grades yet since I plan on making a YouTube video showing them. Hopefully I'll get some pleasant surprises...

SGC processing times
 

I'm right on with Donmuth. Submitted April 11 and in hand today, May 25.
That's a 6-week total turnaround. About 2 weeks behind the stated time,
I'll take it though. One observation- once my submission got the "post
grading processing" status update on their site, things went really fast.

Trent King