My Final Words On CGC Cards

Done and done Happy New Year!
#pokemon #pokemontcg #pokemoncards

[@Rocketsnail1000]

I’m gonna give this year a CGC 7.5

[@OpossumBud]

That’s a good comment lol

[@Slow_Burn_Cards]

I will go to my grave believing that card grading has without question done more harm than good for the card collecting hobby/industry. More often than not it will make you feel worse about the cards you use to value unless you get a 10, is wildly inconsistent, and tends to reinforce the terrible notion that the only cards worth collecting are the ones that can be sold for decent money.

[@keithkleparski4438]

I really hope there is a revault against graded card services

[@matttran7161]

Straight up homie. On a person plus side though, it made me realize if I like the art, I'll totally buy a scuffed back card. Because I'm not selling it and that's not the side you see in the binder.

[@E-A-Z-Y]

@@keithkleparski4438there won’t be though, don’t be silly. There’s a place for authentication, preservation and condition grading. Always will be.

[@catcrapinahat]

I agree, I've been in the hobby for many years. I don't just collect pokemon. I have tons of tcgs all over my house. My wife's favorite pokemon is jigglypuff and for Christmas I got her an 8.5 jigglypuff because it was a good deal and much cheaper than any other listing on ebay. It's the first and only graded card in my house.

[@markusbetts]

I don’t even care about the condition of any card that much unless it’s super bad, never understood why people put such a premium on it. It’s not that type of scarcity that matters to me.

[@xcyphs]

Anyone else woulda got the 8.5

[@OpossumBud]

I can’t help but think someone else would’ve gotten a 9 based of them edges man

[@Emperor_Pikachu]

CGC had amazing potential but they screwed up over and over and over again and ruined there reputation.

[@OpossumBud]

It’s just so hard to not look at crap like this and be like “bro 👀”

[@CTR]

Why doesn’t any grading company ask me to do content like this?!

[@kpsaltiss]

😂😂😂

[@OpossumBud]

Too much speed or velocity or something

[@CTR]

@@OpossumBud or I’d call them out and they’d never post it

[@PokemonRadar]

You don’t leave the house man 😂

[@LiaoCards]

@@PokemonRadar Perfect for CGC to advertise their shady grading standards with a shady person like you

[@jaderabbit8726]

Dude needs to move that card quick, no way that’s a true 10 in any means.

[@GrowingReality101]

I will never grade solely for one reason, the lack of objectivity, which I firmly believe should be one of the standards for said process.

[@OpossumBud]

That’s a fair point homie a lot of people are taking their hats out of the grading ring for this reason

[@Haveafastbath]

Spot on Nick! Grading is a complete joke. The sooner we the collectors all just snub grading, the better off we will all be. I have a binder full of perfect cards, I don’t need the opinion of a stupid corrupt company to tell me that.

[@jtr0625]

With a track record of messing up so many times, we all know these are not your final words on CGC 😂

[@OpossumBud]

What they do next for me to talk about them would have to be insane

[@CryptidKeeperTCG]

PSA and CGC suck. Always buy the card, not the grade

[@OpossumBud]

Buy the card, not the grade

[@marcos4239]

This reminds me of Logam's illustrator pikachu that was graded several times by its previous owner before it got the PsA 10

[@OpossumBud]

Very similar indeed 😎

[@cheese0069]

My final words on opossum bud Taco Bell

[@OpossumBud]

Yum 😎

[@hyperbeam9417]

Well said bro, have had a tough time with both CGC then PSA on pack fresh mint stuff. Thanks for sticking up for the little guys.

[@xoaudio]

Going to be a good year when opossum drops a CGC video

[@cyrillewiss]

Radar is a shill bidder

[@OpossumBud]

He was there 👀

[@ktcardz]

Honestly fr this is a great take

[@OpossumBud]

Mad appreciate that homie 🙏🏽

[@gabeowens151]

Had all the plans in the world to grade everything a couple years ago-now i love my binders with all the cards in order of the way i think it looks cool. Grading has taken a grand canyon dive in the past year and a half.

[@f1sherman52]

I have never been interested in card grading

[@nevercold808]

CGC shits the bed yet again. Happy New Year, Nick! Hope you know how much your voice is appreciated in the hobby! It's gonna be a helluva 2024!!!

[@OpossumBud]

Really appreciate ya man happy new year and see ya in 2024!

[@_BASIC_INSTINCT]

don't worry cgc gonna roll out cgc 11s

[@camelbalk]

Card get a CGC 8.5, video gets a 8.5, 2023 gets a 7.0, by new grading standards this post get a 10.0 pristine...... see how that works.... Happy new year

[@AndrewFalberg]

Happy new year brotha🎉

[@AreEsTee]

Not saying that PSA is flawless either, but contrast this with how PSA graded a 1 of 1 card (The One Ring from the LotR MtG set) as a Mint 9. Food for thought.

[@OpossumBud]

Respect honestly

[@The_Card_Father]

My favorite cards I got this year were my Japanese gold star mewtwo and my Thai tag team misty and lorelei. Happy new years big guy keep up the awesome content into next year.

[@mitchellpatterson5923]

Happy New Years man🤙🔥🎄🎅🎁, thanks for everything Opossum!!

[@BryanKeith01]

Same can be said for Logan Paul’s Illustrator… Bunch of shady scam artists. More people need to call this stuff out. Also Radar is a huge tool bag…

[@truckchuck5601]

Totally agree with this video. I’ve only been collecting since 2020 but haven’t sent one card in for grading. Too inconsistent

[@TheFriskySquid]

If I had the money I'd buy it off Radar and crack it and get it graded at PSA, and then crack that and send it to BGS. Then I'd send it to Rudy and see how his grading company does. (and then I would send it back to CGC to get it reholdered into the 10 by sending in the plastic and the cert even though I know they wouldn't take it back). Would be a fun experiment to see who is honest (none of them are, grading is subjective)

[@OpossumBud]

That would be a ton of money but yeah good experiment

[@viprdude]

Slick shirt. Happy New Year Opossum Bud!

[@OpossumBud]

Happy new year and thank you 🙏🏽

[@dark_antihero]

I'm not gonna lie the pristine 10 slab is sick but everything else the changed was super questionable. Like getting rid of sub grade and getting rid of the blue in favor of the boring looking black color

[@CatBack94]

This is why i dont really like grading, you are paying some rando to tell you how good your card is when in cases like this the grade is objectively not what it should be

[@XingCollectables]

I'll say it again for the people in the mf'n back... We as a community can value RAW cards just as valuable as we value 10s. If its Mint it shouldn't matter that it has a dumb case with a number on it. Mint is Mint PERIOD!!!

[@weetjijwel050]

I dont need others to value my cards. I value them myself and all my cards are Pristine Black Label Mine. HNY to all, lets make it a great one:)!

[@joshualongie2209]

Grading is a joke and I have been collecting for years and I am very reluctant to send my collection in

[@ClaysCollectibles]

Just wanted to share I’m pretty sure this was a CGC 9.5 that bumped to a 10. So could’ve been a 9.5 with 9 edge or corner subgrade and with the updated grading change was converted to a 10. If I’m wrong lmk

[@matt-tasticaus9565]

Whats your thoughts on paradox rift cards. The ancient and future style ones. I finally decided to get some Im actually liking the look of some of them cards, especially the two tone look.

[@OpossumBud]

I like them 👍🏽

[@matt-tasticaus9565]

@@OpossumBud iron jugulis reverse Holo and iron moth Holo. Nice looking cards. Iron moth has a cool beedrill feel to it. Also, Happy New Year OPB to you and the family, All the best in 2024.

[@C4TheDub]

This just makes CGC look worse than ever.

[@JN-X]

See you next year bestie!

[@madh0us3]

New years day virgin gang from UK thank you for a solid year of educational and drama content.

[@OpossumBud]

No problem homie see ya next year!

[@rackattack85]

CGC... Can't Grade Correctly

[@OpossumBud]

CGC: Cool Guys Club

[@rackattack85]

@@OpossumBud Crappy Grading Company

[@DevoFett]

This is honestly sad, cgc used to be my favorite grading companies. I stopped buying them when they changed the best labels (imo) to some standard looking cheap labels smh 🤦‍♂️

[@OpossumBud]

Same I was a big CGC fan boy back before 2023

[@GMoney_213]

Happy New Year OB and to the OB Gang!

[@OpossumBud]

Happy New Year Big G 😎🎊

[@theriptide27]

I just started doing some grading with Beckett and I like them for grading tough and having subgrades. I’m not grading to make profit, just to encase cards I really like in my collection. Plus the chase of a Black Label is fun/impossible

[@Hellscollect]

Pika zek tag team is the best pika card out there imo , it’s the last card I need as well!! Turns out friend was selling his bgs 9.5(pretty much raw mint) for great price and just picked up earlier today 🥰

[@germinal220]

I've never been a slabs person, but i've recently bought a binder that have 3 slots for slabs and i don't want to have empty slots in my binder so i'm now the proud owner of 3 graded melonys

[@OpossumBud]

That’s pretty sick 😎

[@Ornitier23]

Happy new year Mario & CGC also have massively screwed up with comics recently some huge drama with reholder scams the last couple of weeks so they may not be the go to for much longer

[@OpossumBud]

Happy New Year homie! I’ve heard about that a little 🙏🏽

[@shaneburcham2280]

Hey opposum bud. Love your content. Keep it real man and be you always. I have a question. What type of printer would be best to use if I'm using it for like basic grading and other basic uses?

[@OpossumBud]

My stance is ditch it entirely, but that’s just me

[@agbxlr447]

Hey opossum, happy new year bud 🙂, hope you’ve had happy holidays so far.

[@OpossumBud]

Hope your holidays are good too! Happy new year!

[@kartracerg3]

The reason why psa is better is they dont associate person submitting to the card. They grade all equally. CGC you get it personally graded. Thus its a biased grading especially since the ceo is standing over your shoulder.

[@ericstockman662]

You don’t really believe that do you? If you do, lol. All grading companies do this shit, especially PSA.

[@jasonfuller2734]

Holy crap. If you think PSA isn’t swayed by who submits, you are a moron.

[@OpossumBud]

Rev and Ryan submit under a different name to PSA, let that sink in

[@G_R_3]

The part where he says “this is an…..honest grade” lmfao dude couldn’t even believe it graded a 10 hahaha too good.

[@OpossumBud]

That was the part that felt like an advertisement to me

[@Meowtro]

I don't see the point in grading anyway unless you're a moneybro. Cards look so much better in a binder, especially if they're organised.

[@OpossumBud]

A lot of people here are money bros now

[@anthonybillera2929]

Your opinion. I like the look of a card in a slab, and Im not a “money bro”.

[@BeefyTacoCS]

Whats crazy is the fact CGC is also in the news for fucking up their comic book grading. At the moment, it seems like they have found out that an employee was reslabbing comics himself and putting whatever grade he wanted. What a shit show of a company

[@Hyfikz]

Just a classic quid pro quo. You get a 10, we get promotional content. They've been doing this since they did their influencer video on their new slabs. I hope it backfires when it sells for no different than a PSA 8 or 9, and just cements their reputation as dog poo.

[@OpossumBud]

Always been the theory, seems to be a tad likely with that edge whitening. Who knows I suppose but I mean 👀

[@Pokemon_mentalhealth]

No CGC for me

[@chriswills418]

Happy New year bro and fellow collectors I ended this year with a bang finally got a gold star gyarados was happy never thought I'd get one

[@OpossumBud]

Hell yeah congrats on the gold star and happy new year!

[@chriswills418]

@@OpossumBud ya I just focused this year on personal collection and gotta say was a blast met new contacts n my gyarados collection is on point will. Tag you in pics when it's set up

[@RocSandy]

Happy New years! And nice gorillaz shirt 👀

[@OpossumBud]

Happy New Year Roc 😎 More Roc content coming soon hopefully next year?

[@RocSandy]

@@OpossumBud definitely more roc content😈 I want more opossum content too

[@Emperor_Pikachu]

@@RocSandy yessir

[@Infinidisc]

This is why I refuse to buy PSA 10's at an insane premium. It's all a joke tbh. One guy is going to give a card a 10, the next guy will give it a 9. I don't fuck with CGC anyway. They got a lot of weird shit going on with them.

[@ShinyScarfy]

My favorite card I got in 2023 is probably either the Silvally GX FA from Cosmic Eclipse, or more recently the Blastoise ex SIR I got yesterday, both pulled myself, and both some of my favorite arts

[@Profshorebreak]

I miss the strict 8.5 CGC era… too bad that cost em customers. They went from being too strict to Halloween candy 10s. They need to find a balance.

[@OpossumBud]

I was one of the biggest CGC fans during that time 😐

[@GrimHorizonTV]

I love my PSA slabs and not defending them by any means because they have their fair share of issues too but CGC has completely fallen off the cliff. This slab should not be able to be sold on the market ever.

[@yanguscoins26]

It’s probably a CGC 9.5 before, CGC change labels and give every 9.5 a Gem Mint 10. This is one reason why I stop using CGC, they’re trash. Haha😊

[@persuasivebarrier2419]

If cgc didn’t have another level above 10 i’d agree 100%. We already know ppl hope for a better grade (one lvl higher at very least) going with cgc over psa. Do we know how many times they sent it in to get (re)graded? Slabbers are pretty notorious for 10 hunting.

[@PatManForever]

I wonder of a lot of these things boil down to damage during encapsulation, its possible that these cards would pass the graders and sustain damage in the step to getting in a slab, goes for all grading services, not pointing out a specific one

[@niklas8578]

Nice you finished your sun and moon tag team cards I gave up after the boom I was convinced I would pick up the super chase cards once the cards drop but they only ever went up. 😢 I m happy with S&V cards so i m not that sad about not completing SM but who knows maybe one day. Idk if you noticed but in japan lots of psa9s are actually sold far bellow raw cardprices and i ve even seen some psa10s being lower than raw versions of the same card( maybe it was just a listing mistake ). I wonder if we see something like that in the western world aswell soon. Grading modern feels weird especially japanese cards.

[@OpossumBud]

Best of luck on completing it yourself! SV rocks but Sun and Moon just has charm!

[@scottrulka6587]

I totally agree with you on your statement about grading. I myself would not want to send my cards threw the mail no matter what I use to work with UPS. I remember how we packed trucks with packages wasn't always a gentle thing sorry I was young and dumb but trust me when I say it hasn't changed just saying 😮

[@famicommike9014]

Harambe bless you and your pulls in 2024

[@OpossumBud]

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@realcokejam]

Long live Harambe 🦍

[@maod8516]

I’m sending my card with Pokevault as the name hopefully they give me all the expensive cards a 10, and all the bologna cards a 8

[@OpossumBud]

😂

[@AshutosJain]

Happy New Year 🎉 Leave it to CGC to start NY with a disappointment 😂

[@OpossumBud]

Happy New Year! 🎊

[@PokeRetroFan]

I love CGC and I use them for all my submissions. I’ve graded hundreds of cards with them and have got on average 75percent Gems mint / pristine 10s. I have never gotten a gem mint or pristine 10 that has whitening on the back or corners / edges that is visible. This is a huge mistake on CGC’s part and really disappointing for me as I use them mostly because of their strict grading.

[@UnwantedCommentary]

I love all those tag teams

[@OpossumBud]

They’re all great!

[@UnwantedCommentary]

Happy new year dude! Glad I found your channel this year!@@OpossumBud

[@SDCISHERE]

CGC got me good 8.5 is more than a meme

[@locoloscollection]

Your so right. I mean Rev sends his cards in under another name and im sure CTR does as well. Its goofy that CGC had other content creators not long ago try to say they enjoy CGC. Lol. Crazy.

[@OpossumBud]

They do that because the bias exists, and good on them honestly 👍🏽

[@d2h655]

Hope you have a great new year !

[@Fishcantswim]

🤘🤘🐠🐠

[@OpossumBud]

My man 😎

[@rosettaaraara6633]

Best things i got in 2023 was Cynthia from Ultra Shiny GX, Karen from Best of XY(Binder copy and PSA9 copy) and a mint Karen's Umbreon from VS, Zinnia from Dragon Storm and Rayquaza V Special Art from Blue Sky Stream.

[@OpossumBud]

The Karen and Cynthia are top tier cards congrats! Rayquaza V slaps as well!

[@ESP-Collectibles]

Never in my life would i even consider sending in a card that looked like that

[@steeveegamez]

Saw this video and thought you was gunna send us off with Cgc crack slab 😂

[@Weeedhouse]

Still convinced all grading companies are biased to how much you grade with them and what tier you grade.

[@RobertPaulson87]

I'd be spewing if I bought that card, thinking it was a genuine Gem Mint card and seeing those corners!

[@Elite4Drew]

I graded a holo espeon from aquapolis with CGC. Card has a very faint print line on the holo and two of the back corners had whitening. Got a Gem Mint 10 so fear not regular people with regular cards CGC will give you grades that aren’t accurate too 😂

[@ANONAM1Z]

It’s a 9 at best but I’d personally say 8-8.5 but it is a beautiful card one I probably will never own radar isn’t that big of a creator in my opinion I do like his podcast and him as a person tho but I’m with you on this Idc really I haven’t graded in awhile but I did win an auction for psa 10 sars of the paldean region starters in Japanese and in sequential certs and I 1000% stole it in my opinion won the auction at $59 but I like binders I don’t grade that much and I don’t buy slabs to often either my New Year’s resolution is to focus on being a sealed collector and just buy certain singles for my binders

[@2UGamingProductions]

These live card grading is wierd. Of course they wont get low grade in person. For fun can I edit one if you videos?

[@Clown_world_2024]

When Opossums right his right!

[@OpossumBud]

🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@jlin2230]

its just like island going down to cgc to do a box break with them and having "blind graders" in the next room

[@OpossumBud]

😂

[@Yankeesfan-zb8dz]

CGC was a place I was going to send stuff into but they also just had a huge comic book scandal just happen, that and this makes me not want to grade my stuff

[@SHADOWCLOUDGAMING]

CGC is so bad. People love CGC because they don't actually want true and consistent grading. They're just smooth brain people who pop a little chub when 50%+ of their submission comes back as 10's when they know they're not.

[@E-A-Z-Y]

As smpratte says, buy the card, not the grade. Always, always inspect what you buy. That’s the great thing about recent serial & their scans nowadays, you can check the high res for any issues. I still stand by grading, I’ve graded hundreds and never had a problem. But this shit makes it harder to defend it.

[@Madd.1234]

Bang! gang!

[@OpossumBud]

Mad appreciate ya and happy new year 🙏🏽

[@pokejoe8166]

Happy New Year Early Gang

[@OpossumBud]

Happy New Year homie!!

[@zohtcg]

Lol grading companies busting some mafia level shit 😎 4 years collecting and not a single submission, people just want the value and not the cards 😂

[@dylanrichey8332]

I want to get my cards encapsulated for protection from everything. I don't care about the return value because I'll never sell my cards.

[@dylanrichey8332]

I do respect you never sending in. Standing strong.

[@zohtcg]

@@dylanrichey8332 I respect that, but it's few and far in between to find people such as yourself who like the protection and feeling of a slabbed card that aren't hyperfocused on getting the "10". Most people who grade will breaking the slabs and keep sending till they get the 10s. CGC not helping either with there shady shit lately. All in all I dont care if people grade but its just never been for me.

[@davesnow6453]

Am i stupid for actually hoping AI grading becomes a thing? I know AGS have been sketchy, but the idea of everything being graded the same way, i like it. Theres been so many "human errors" with grading lately.

[@OpossumBud]

Master P can’t mess up worse than this i suppose

[@N0T1VE_]

Going to Italy this week and I’m most definitely gonna get some Italian product 🤑

[@OpossumBud]

Best of luck 👍🏽

[@deathbymazda]

I wonder if you could buy the card and then sue CGC for fraud? Bam: Free illustration Pikachu lol

[@OpossumBud]

I guarantee they have a clause somewhere protecting them from that when you choose to grade with them 😐

[@TheFilmCriticMovie]

Standards in 2024 are about as rare as gem mint 10 Pikachu illustrators

[@nocapvisualz]

Gotta hit us with the "Hash Slinging Slasher Virgin Gang" SpongeBob would be proud

[@ouijahttr3311]

CGC will force another reaction

[@OpossumBud]

It would have to be insane

[@CryptidKeeperTCG]

You doin a video about the new CGC scandal? Their slabs can be opened with heat! All my charizards have been falling out of their slabs 😭

[@Heartache2491]

Happy New Year, Card Dad :) Also of course, CGC is smoking crack once again 😭 ill admit, i do still buy some graded cards here and there, but only if theyre cheap and cards i want. Im still waiting on my Metal Mew card from PSA. . . They had a sale on grading, and its been like 2 months or so, and im still waiting. Not doing it again unless stuff changes.

[@OpossumBud]

Nothing wrong with buying a what you like man, y’all just deserve to know what goes on. Happy new years homie! 🙏🏽

[@Heartache2491]

@@OpossumBud As always, we appreciate what you do for us! I hope this year is phenomenal for you!

[@rextobyballew1825]

You're telling me a shrimp roast this beast?

[@chrisklein7694]

First video of the new year for me.

[@OpossumBud]

Happy new year!

[@weezy4497]

it was going to be a CGC 9.5 but they dont do that anymore so its automatically a 10 now