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GOT GRADES TODAY, BUT NOT FROM DEC 3 BUT DEC 16

I got my order/grades today from PCGS.....The grades are ok, but the weird thing is that i have 2 orders in...
Dated Dec 3
Dated Dec 16
But the one i got today is the Dec 16th and NOT the Dec 3 (which is two weeks earlier) I called PCGS and there like no thats normal it does not matter when they come in,.......yea what ever...... Did this ever happen to anyone else???
Thanks David

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  • anyone?
  • Marty just posted grades that were recieved 12/18 and I haven't got mine graded at the same service level and they were recieved on 12/12....Go figure!!!!
  • relayerrelayer Posts: 10,570
    See this thread


    Why grading times seem random


    It's because they are.

    I sent 2 modern order on 10/28 and 2 on 11/18. First I received one from 10/28, then both from 11/18 a day apart. So I called to ask what happened to the other order from 10/28

    The way the guy explained it is they have two areas of the vault (actually the guy said they have two vaults, but that's another story).

    One area of the vault is for orders they track for time guarantees and the other half of the vault is not tracked. When a grader needs some boxes to grade, the vault manager goes and gets them out of the vault and brings them into the grading room.

    The timed boxes get priority and processed in order, but the other half of the valut is taken out at random. So if you have a modern or ecomony submission it's sitting on the other side of the vault. If yours is in a box that got pushed to the back, it's going to stay there awhile until they rotate them once in a while.

    So if your ecomony or modern order is taking longer than everybody else's, it's because your order is sitting in a box near the back of the shelf and hasn't been lucky enough to have been picked yet. It's not done in a first in first out order.
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  • misterRmisterR Posts: 2,305 ✭✭
    That happens to me every once in awhile. Been a long time since I have received any grades. The coins I submitted on 12/08/03 have still not been graded. image
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  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Still waiting on my two 11/26 orders imageimage
    When in doubt, don't.
  • cool, thanks guys... o yea at least one of the Lincolns came back MS68 1998-D pop 25 only 2 higher...
  • BigEBigE Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭
    Nice one Pow!image---------------BigE
    I'm glad I am a Tree
  • thanks BIG E
  • LincolnCentManLincolnCentMan Posts: 5,347 ✭✭✭✭
    I have four invoices in right now, all at the economy level:

    Received on:
    11/21/03 today is day 67
    11/21/03 today is day 67
    12/29/03 today is day 29
    1/15/04 today is day 12 ...whoo hoo!

    David

  • I feel your pain
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    I'm on day 75. Another couple weeks or so, and I'm going to start getting irritated.

    Russ, NCNE
  • TootawlTootawl Posts: 5,877 ✭✭✭
    I have two orders that were received on 12/08/2003. Still waiting. One of them was my membership 4 freebies.
    PCGS Currency: HOF 2013, Best Low Ball Set 2009-2014, 2016, 2018. Appreciation Award 2015, Best Showcase 2018, Numerous others.
  • RGLRGL Posts: 3,784
    How hard is it to assign sequential numbers to the non-guaranteed vault and remove/grade them in the order received?
  • thats true, they should assigned numbers, so it would ne fair, but o well

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