18 day turnaround on economy submissions ?

deltadimeman

my coins have been at pcgs for 30 days, how about yours ?

JamesM

*Estimated Turnaround Times*

Tdec1000

I called twice to customer service. I have a modern submission running 19 working days. The estimate is 13 days. It just an estimate.

djm

The 18 days is working days it does not include weekends, Thanksgiving or the Day after Thanksgiving. If it has been there for 30 working days I'd call customer service and see if there is a problem or a receive hold on the order and they are waiting for you to cantact them to resolve the issue.

lusterlover

Last week they raised the estimate to 20 days. I'm on 23 business days with my submission. Perhaps they should increase it some more...

seanq

They announced a big price increase a few weeks ago, effective January 1, so of course they were going to get a big spike of submissions and turn-around times would suffer. Nothing to do but roll with it and be happy you're not paying the new prices.


Sean Reynolds

LanceNewmanOCC

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i submitted my coins in 2012 and i figure i'll get them in 2013
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coinsarefun

<< <i>.
i submitted my coins in 2012 and i figure i'll get them in 2013
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Are you saying that if I submit my coins in 2013 I won't receive them till 2014

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>Are you saying that if I submit my coins in 2013 I won't receive them till 2014 >>


why actually yes. i will submit coins in 2013 i will not receive until 2014, tough business this numismatics
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lava

At least if you submit in 2012, you pay the 2012 rates.

DeepCoin

I have always found a good rule of thumb to be a month after they arrive at PCGS. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Where you fall in terms of show calendars also has an effect on turn around times. My free submission arrived on November 28th and I expect that sometime after Christmas they will be graded and I will get them just before the New Year.

The question of everyone is, How often do you go online to check your submissions?

To answer my own question, I tend to look once a day in the evening as curiosity tends to get the better of me.

phnatacc

I laugh at your puny submission times. On the currency side I have a bulk (26 note) order that is 90 business days (not factoring holidays or shows) and counting.

And of course it will, at least briefly, eat at me as to whether or not I should have ever requested those two status updates when I finally see the grades.

MsMorrisine

finally some people to commisserate with



11 business days have passed on my 6coin modern crap express submission for SP with FS... that's 17 calendar days.


To make it worse a 4 coin order received the day before that one was done in 3 days





Thank you for therapy tuesday.

djm

MsMorrisine:

Weren't you told to submit your coins to TMZ ??

MsMorrisine

I was joking when I said:

"When I asked for a tour, DW said call TMZ"

after Charmy got a tour of the PCGS facility.

JustNeedCoins

I love how the good "its just an estimate" is already being used. I it is a true estimate, there should be an equal percentage of submissions that are returned faster than the estimate. I find it unlikely that is the case.

I anticipate some member will explain their anomalous story how they received theirs quicker than the so-call estimate but remember it should be a 1:1 proportion.

ianrussell

We're noticing faster turnaround on Economy, but I think it depends upon the submission. If you have complicated coins on the form, they take longer. A economy submission of generic Morgans will get graded much quicker.

- Ian

lusterlover

In fairness to our hosts, my grades were done today. I will back up off the ledge.

Two good , one bad. My first gennie in 4 years.

JCMhouston

If your estimate is +- 50% that's more of a WAG than an estimate.

WingedLiberty1957

I once had a Standard Service order (no vams) take 42 business days (nearly 2 calendar months) to complete
even though their website said 15 day turnaround (I think)

So if you get your coins back within 2 months you are doing pretty good

I would say something around or a bit over 1 calendar month for a turnaround is pretty typical

So if your coins checked in on Nov 20th ... dont even START checking the status website until Dec 20th
And they will likely finish around Dec 27th.

If you requested TrueView photos it adds about a week I think.

Holidays, Coin Shows, Vacation schedules all impact the turnaround.

Of course you can always pay for the very fast Express Service, but that's pretty expensive.

TwoSides2aCoin

They got my renewal fees faster than I got my coins, but I like 'em just the same.

DennisH

Mine went live in the system on November 30. I'm hoping for results by the end of December.

MsMorrisine

<< <i>Mine went live in the system on November 30. I'm hoping for results by the end of December. >>




I hoping for end of the week and they received it the same day.



anyone get grades yet?

djm

If you don't get grades tommorrow, do you really want to get grades before January 3? With all the holiday parties the next two weeks your grades could look like this:

PR22
AU61
MS47
SP38
MS64FB BN