Kill the suspense or get a surprise?

Swampboy

Spoiler alert.

I killed it.

I wish I had the patience to wait for a surprise but, sadly, I'm like the kid whose parents are out of the house and I know where they keep the presents.

This in my morning's emails.....

If you want your grades to be a surprise, don’t check them yet! Sometimes it’s more fun to ’reveal’ the grades when you open your return shipment. It’s entirely up to you.

I think that suggestion is kinda cool of PCGS to send along with the 'grades ready' email.

ChrisH821

heh, the suspense is too great. How'd you do?

TurtleCat

The only time I was “patient” enough for that was in the early 2000s when their order lookup tool wasn’t super reliable or easy to use. I’d rather know right away.

crazyhounddog

Alright, the suspense is killing me. How did you do ya teaser?

mannie gray

I just wait until they come to the PO box.

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ɹoʇɔǝlloɔ

I refresh my submissions page 1000x a day when I have coins out to grade 😅

Swampboy

I'm waiting for the TVs email but we had fun over coffee discussing hoped for grades before we looked.

This one was a foreign sub and the very colorful Saudi riyal I picked up on eBay from dcarr back in the aughts made 64 and I was thinking a 63.

My Cuba-URSS space commemorative graded 67. I had it 66 and it goes into my space collection and my Cuban coin collection. A little known fact is that the Cuban on board the Russian spacecraft was the first person of African descent to go into space.

Edit to add TV...

Hydrant

I go with surprise!

david3142

It’s still a surprise, you just get the info sooner.

TurtleCat

lol, even when you look you can have suspense and surprise. I submitted a currency note. Got the note back from them with it still saying “BEING IMAGED” for over a week. And it’s been about 3 weeks since it first went into BEING IMAGED. Of course, they estimate bank notes at 25 business days but this was more like 42 business days.

badger

I know this is a bit off topic. Referenced above was the typical lag time of TV vs receipt of coins. Was in manufacturing for 20 years. A counter-intuitive finding in mfg tactics is that the higher the work-in-progress then the slower/lower the overall output. Get TV timing to match shipment and output should increase.

BLUEJAYWAY

The anticipatory wait of ones graded coins return brings to mind, for those old enough to remember them, those cereal premiums we as children would send for with a 4 week wait. Remember the ones where you would send in box tops, or 50 cents for a decoder ring,game,baking soda activated submarine. Seemed like the wait was forever back then just as now.

ricko

@BLUEJAYWAY... I do remember those 'box top' treasures.... only got one or two...and the radio show 'Sky King' special decoder ring.... I think the decoder ring was foundational to my career in communications in the Navy... Code and Crypto.... Cheers, RickO

TurtleCat

@BLUEJAYWAY said:
The anticipatory wait of ones graded coins return brings to mind, for those old enough to remember them, those cereal premiums we as children would send for with a 4 week wait. Remember the ones where you would send in box tops, or 50 cents for a decoder ring,game,baking soda activated submarine. Seemed like the wait was forever back then just as now.

I remember something like that for a GI Joe which was supposed to be a custom design with your name on it. After 3 months I got an empty box with a receipt in it.