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[HRBAKER]

Originally Posted by Steve D

Looks like Mo graded that Boston Garter Cobb!




You know.....


Mo Ron




Steve

That is the exceedingly rare die-cut parallel to the regular '14 Garter series. Anyway you cut it, still a beautiful card!

[bigfish]

Needed to pop this to the top after looking at all of the awful BCCG cards on ebay. If anyone from BCCG is reading this, you really are down grading your reputation with this crap. You are miseading people with the number grades and people are paying extra for your inflated label. Not a real smart move in the long run for you. Just a thought from a concerned pre war buyer/collector....... Could buisness development respond to this for me please....BCCG

[calvindog]

I'm lost here. I just got an oversized R309-2 Greenberg back from them. IS BCCG "Becket Grading Services?" The card received a 1.5 grade which I thought was pretty low (see below). And if not, what is BVG? Are there three different Beckett grading services, BVG, BCCG and BGS?

[Leon]

I think BVG is their vintage grading, BGS is their new card grading and the oft maligned BCCG is for mass merchants. Here is where we discussed this a few months ago..

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...highlight=bccg

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by calvindog

I'm lost here. I just got an oversized R309-2 Greenberg back from them. IS BCCG "Becket Grading Services?" The card received a 1.5 grade which I thought was pretty low (see below). And if not, what is BVG? Are there three different Beckett grading services, BVG, BCCG and BGS?

You are correct. There are 3 distinct services available from Beckett.

BGS - Beckett's Grading Service
BVG - Beckett's Vintage Grading
BCCG - Beckett's Collector's Club Grading

BCCG does NOT use the standard 1 - 10 grading range. Their grades are 5 - 10 only, with BCCG 5 being "Poor or Better."

It's a dumb idea, but apparently makes them money and they don't seem inclined to change it.

We have rehashed it out here many times.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by calvindog

I'm lost here. I just got an oversized R309-2 Greenberg back from them.

Jeff - great card - one of my favorites. Because of the thin paper stock, the issue is very prone to damage. If that's the one that was auctioned on eBay a few months back, I recall looking at and an thinking it potentially had some condition issues, though looking at your scan, I am not reminded of what they were.

The oversized holders were only produced with "BGS" on them. See here on an earlier issue:

[calvindog]

Ahh...that makes sense now.

[hunterdutchess]

I bought a few BCCG 9's for my son. They were a 93 sp Jeter and a 94 sp Rodriguez. We crossed them over to BGS and they came back Jeter 8 and A-Rod 8.5 so we paid rather lower than what those grades whould have cost us but with the grading fee's we broke even. It's almost like gambling.

[calvindog]

As big as a pizza box but the only game in town when it comes to issues this size: