This is ridiculous

IlikeZARcoins

My coins were received by PCGS on the 19th of April and I am still waiting for the grades.

I realise that I am to wait for up to 60 days but this length of time takes all the fun out of it.

And we all know what coin collecting without fun is...........

MacCrimmon

That's nothing!! Wait until you get the results in another 4-5 weeks (maybe) and every coin is ~2 points lower than you expected, and they throw in 25% bodybags.

The 60 days are "business days", and you'll have to add blackout dates, such as the major shows. Just Long Beach would add 4 days to the usual 60. Hey, it's the evening in Eire; go have a Bushmills.

Steve27

"...but this length of time takes all the fun out of it."

That's part of their service.

ajaan

Were they entered on the 19th or just received?

IlikeZARcoins

Mac - heading of to college this evening.

Ajaan - 'Your shipment was entered on 04/19/2006. Further processing is pending.'

theboz11

I have never understood why anyone would want their coins undergraded and held in plastic. I want mine graded by the Standards that where originally layed out in the ANA grading standards. Now they have technical grades and market grades and they shift over time. I have some old rattlers from pcgs that were purchased years ago. When submitted for new holders, all of them received a point or more higher grades. That bites because had I sold them before reholder, my price realized would have been halved.

IlikeZARcoins

Well I think that I'll be of to NGC next time 'round.

Boz - yup - that sucks.

1jester

Hey, relax, sip the Kool-Aid, and enjoy the wait!!

Conder101

<< <i>And we all know what coin collecting without fun is........... >>


"Investing"

crito

Ouch, I was hoping those times were just for U.S. coin economy service. I just sent a batch in under world coin economy.

PCGS Order Status for Invoice # 3459954

Your shipment was entered on 06/20/2006. Further processing is pending.



I've got three 1931 Peruvian Soles in there -- Think they used cr@ppy planchets that year (great depression in US) as it's really hard to find nice examples... hopefully at least one of the three will qualify to be donned in PCGS armour. Also sent in a 1393/893 "error" date Sol -- technically not an error coin but a misplaced repunch.

Anyway, I'll post pictures when I get them back... sometime around September I guess. LOL

7Jaguars

I know this is a PCGS forum but I have about given up on them for grading - it is just too expensive and too inconvenient with too much time invested. I also think that people take their grading as though it is "delivered from the mount" when in fact, it is not perfect. I have many examples so will not go there when it comes to grading pieces like the English Matte series (either in the case of the 1902 coins or the various off year mattes) where it seems the size of the submitter in terms of business to PCGS is paramount and they get grades the rest of us will not.

I can imagine how higher encapsulated bits go for more within the "micro" environment of collectors in the US but that they do not hold so much water when it comes to the home country (ie England).

Not ment as a rag session, but these are valid points. I will buy encapsulated but does not especially add value. I do appreciate the protection of the slab.

crito

PCGS world economy service is substantially cheaper than ANACS or ICG and only $1.50/slab more than NGC. So yeah, turn-around time sux but PCGS seems like the best deal (resalve value/slabbing fee) out there at the moment. When ANACS was $10/slab I sent more there. But why pay first tier prices for a second or third tier TPGS? Doesn't make any sense to me.