CSG status

[Lorewalker]

Yet to buy a CSG graded card and it is not in my future to do so any more than I would buy a BVG card. I see the two companies as the same not just because the head grader association. Neither BVG nor CSG are used regularly, if at all, by any of the auction houses which should say something. I feel both companies fill a niche in the hobby but it is at the collector and flipper levels.

As far as the well documented consistent problems with SGC and PSA both grading large volumes of altered cards and alleged favors to higher profile submitters my gut tells me there is a better chance a CSG card is graded more accurately. At the end of the day it is about the hobby's demand and the prices for CSG material is still below SGC which means the prices are well below PSA.