This biggest issue that i see here is people altering their cards and then selling them off to people as NM, without mentioning the fact that there’s polish on them. Saddest part about this? I legit believe that none of these grading companies can tell whether they are altered or not.
Totally respect your opinion on this. Especially after doing the legwork. I do feel like a lot of people are missing the big issue here though. And that's whether or not the splooge is actually detectable/noticed by ANY grading company. Has anyone sent this stuff to PSA, BECKETT, or SGC and reported back? CGCs feet dragging is upsetting, but I'm more worried about this shit effecting card grading as a whole.
So I get the detection thing, but what people are overlooking about this scenario is I showed them the person, the card, and proof of them applying stuff to the cards… should’ve at least got them and that’s what gets me
This is what my instant thought was, because everyone is now ‘ooo thats why you should use PSA’ so I’d be super interested to see if this works with PSA and Becketts too 🤔 Just sad that this shit happens man, just let us collect our shiny cardboard and go find something else to ruin 🤦🏻♂️
@@OpossumBud Oh no, I fully agree better attention should have been paid here - especially after you did the leg work. CGC undoubtedly dropped the ball there. My concern is the mob mentality people like to get after. Those, oh CGC is bad - time to jump on PSA, Beckett, insert name here. And NO, everyone needs to be looked at here with a careful eye. Because odds are if CGC isn't detecting it others aren't either. You called out this one example, but how many other cards from other customers are slipping through the cracks everywhere else? As popular as PSA is, I'm sure they have handled their own handful of splooge cards by now. I'm hoping these companies at the very least get their hands on this stuff and actually take a look at it. Figure out if there is a way to recognise its use. Identify is it damaging cards? If so to what extent? Because frankly, otherwise every company is at fault here - not just CGC. This is precisely why I generally only grade my own cards and primarily just for display. Because frankly who knows the history of a card.
@@MountyLive Precisely. We as the consumers here really need to take a close look at everyone here. This is an eye opener for all grading companies and to assume it's isolated to CGC is negligent. Should CGC have handled this situation better? ABSOLUTELY. But that's the small issue of what could be a much bigger problem.
@@OpossumBud i never understood the need to have someone independently verify my stuffs quality. Let the end buyer make that determination. With all these buyer protections. A smart buyer makes sure they have these protections in place before buying anything online. But everyone wants a deal and goes to back alley markets with shady Pokémon slingers, and then get upset when they get got. Its like going to skidrow and expecting not run into junkies and someone looking to rob you if they get the chance. Its silly. Theres no need for it. Pokémon at retail prices appreciates as whole still better than the S&P 500. Year over year. 15%+ annually is great. But people want more always. They want that 40-50-60% return and do some real shady stuff and buy from real shady people.
I might start just collecting raw cards. I literally just got back a graded card from. BGS, and guess what? They graded the freaking card upside-down! Are you kidding me? How does this happen? All these companies should be avoided. It's all opinionated based on the people they hire.
Its always something special about going through a binder. And going through other trainers binders at local meetups. Cards locked up in plastic can't replicate that
@@Joelito2300 I find that non-Pokemon fans (basically every single friend of mine) are even interested in looking through my binders as opposed to my slabs. I actually asked one of them why. They said it's less intimidating, more relaxing - like looking through a photo album.
That's how I do it, just a big binder. Cards don't have to be high quality, sometimes they're yard sale collections that I assimilated. I'm comfortable putting just about any one of my cards into a deck. It's cheaper and it's wholesome. No drama or anything, just bliss.
There's nothing better than flipping through the ol 3 ring binder, looking at all my cards. I used to bring my best binders to the bars and I'd bring a new chick home every night, never failed. I had to stop because they'd get so wet from looking at my cards, soaking the floor. One night a gentleman at the bar slipped and broke his neck. After that I had to take a step back and realized I was partially responsible.
That sad part about life is, this card polish could be an amazing plus for people who wanted to buy cheaper cards make them look nice and keep them in their collection for display. Only problem is that people suck and they will try and cheat their way to more money. It’s just too bad
Really enjoying the videos! Thanks for bringing to light all of these poketubers and companies that are actually bad for the community! Keep it up and much love!
I personally have never been a fan of graded cards... you have certainly helped me decide on not getting my cards graded... I'm definitely behind you on this, bro... also, I haven't seen too many videos of ppl cracking slabs safely. I would be interested in seeing that... also, I appreciate the truth man
Additional comment - these companies need to actually get their hands on this buffing/void filling compound, send it to a 3rd party to do a detailed analysis on it, and create a non destructive chemical authentication process - or perhaps determine what spectrum of light it reacts to.
Amazing work, my dude! Flat out amazing work! You are the best and we’ve seriously needed you for shit like this for a long time! Keep up the super amazing and solid work, bro!
Could happen in a few years, no one knows what it is or the effect that the product that removes serial numbers and signatures will have on cards in the future… i appreciate ya 🙏🏽
Damn man that sucks I love CGC - and the worst part is that shit he did to the card definitely altered it and definitely improved the grade! He made like a 5 into a 7.5 🤦🏼 and like you said it’s untested so for all we know that splooge could start eating the card away in a year! Scary stuff man. Good thing I hardly ever buy slabs 😂 but I’m Ngl I’ll keep using CGC for my own stuff. Only because I know that shit would breeze right through psa too 😂 great vid opossum this is great information for collectors to know - keep keeping it real homie
That's fuckin crazy that you even showed them the card in question. And they still graded it. Fuckin wild. Good thing I don't have a subscription to them or any other grading place for that matter.
That’s why I’m done. Literally zero cares and I did all the work for them 🤷🏽♂️ I’m personally out 😐 thank you and best of luck for whatever you do in the future! 🙏🏽
holy s. rayquaza. you got me on that one. banette be poppin off too. feels more like a medium fry. kinda starting to heat up under the lamp, then bam someone orders a extra large fry.
Yeah this is nuts. I believe I told Rattle before and I tried to mention it to a lot of other people. My cousin and I sent them three error cards where there was basically no border at all on the top..(like a sliver) They graded the cards didn't mark them as error. They put the centering as like a grade 8. Meanwhile someone like BGS would put like a 3-5 If they don't put on the slab error or OC. So I showed CGC comparable cards with similar grade and the centering score was about the same but they were a little bit more normal cards in terms of centering. It was clear as day, showed them the two pictures both with the CGC slabs. Different between oc badly & other CGC cards that have centering as 8.5. They gave me a runaround for almost 8 months and it was never resolved and they just told me that they can't help me. The only thing is I didn't do what I was going to do my plan was to do like a 10 or 15% chargeback or something but I decided to just let them deal with all the hate instead. Only recently they've been a little more lenient on the grades but yeah they would screw up a lot of people's cards and grade them wrong and often put 8.5 grade. And this is coming from someone that sends cards into PSA and Beckett often and I usually get 9.5s and 10s, so I'm pretty accurate. They will just take your money for anything and they don't care about anything else.
I literally just sent CGC 32 cards for grading for the first time on 11 jan… i wish i would have seen this sooner and i would have made the option to critically research more on the other companies better. This alone makes me question the slabs being sold on eBay OR if i ever want to sell mine and this causes CGC slabs to NO SALE and NO BIDS. 😮 You just earned yourself a new sub on the plus side. Darn it…
And I’m telling you, I don’t care what people tell you and I don’t care what the CGC community says if you take anything from this video it should be this: I literally showed them the person who was altering cards with proof of them doing it, which cards they were doing it to, and video proof… they acknowledged it, said their standard on their page acting all noble, and still let the card through. THEY. DO. NOT. CARE. Sorry I couldn’t get this out sooner and best of luck of your sub 🙏🏽
It's not just CGC. None of the grading companies have confirmed they can detect the use of this stuff... either way, if you were planning on selling your CGC graded cards you'll do fine. If you plan on selling them in the future, you will almost certainly do just as fine. Pretty much all of these grading companies have done or do things that cast serious doubt on whether a card graded a 10 means anything other than "a second human on this earth felt this card was mint, at a specific point in time"... You'll be fine.
Wow, the algorithm actually doing work to put this in my feed. Memes aside, I've found this video REALLY informative, as a person that also does not believe in "touching up" cards for grading, their response was such lip service bullshit. If they wouldn't do anything about it, not even publicly address this alteration, much less rescind the cards registrated grading, then there is definitely a loss of faith in their other cards not being chemically altered or that they really know how to catch it. Thank you for standing by your standards as well and informing us of why you're making these decisions for u. Subscribed
No problem and the thing with me in addition to what you said, which I agree with, is I laid out everything for them and they still dropped the ball! Only thing I could’ve done more was wait at CGC and stop the sun myself 😂 thank you truly and it means a lot! I’ll try to stay worth your sub 🙏🏽
Not gonna lie I have been waiting to grade a lot of my collection and every time I’m thinking about it I just decide against it smh now I’m definitely back to just keeping my cards in sleeves/cardsavers
They in my experience it seems like even if you give them concise proof of foul play they will just let it go through…. Just my take and I wish the best for whatever you do!
@@OpossumBud Definitely man I see it the same way the proof was basically undeniable and the card still gets graded the fact they liked jc’s stuff too just ridiculous
I was just on RUclips looking for reviews for graders for one piece tcg but this video caught my attention thanks for calling out the bs like how is a grading company not gonna hold to their standards when it can literally affect their grading values
Hey man I love looking out for your vids I play em while I take showers, good work! Also did you go up almost 200 subscribers in the past day or am I trippin??🤯
8:23 I cannot stress enough how much money I put into this franchise as a whole. I’ve been a Pokémon fan since I was 10 years old I’m now 34. And it’s really disgusting to me that they’re allowing people to do essentially throw away money because you’re right as a huge fan of The franchise and the member of the hobby I want my cards as they are. And if down the line this crap he put on the card oxidizes in the slabs or if he just does colors in a little bit I would be upset because it’s no longer the grade that it was when you initially graded it.
That’s my whole thing man, and you get it. This is people money and hobby, and this crap can’t fly, especially when people show proof of it and lay out the entire thing for ya… jeez. Thank you man truly 🙏🏽
Love your channel man! I always binge rewatch your videos, you speak the truth when no one wants to hear it. Keep being real 😎 btw what shirt are you wearing?? 😳 lol
Hell yeah dude the anime spencer shirts are fire! And no thank you man, I love Pokémon , 2nd generation (gold version)is the game that started my love for it lol, just sad to see all these “know it alls” peeps talk about Pokémon who don’t know a thing about Pokémon come around during Covid , I would get clowned on in HS for liking Pokémon like 10 years ago 😂
Love how the guy is basically bragging that he's a slime ball. I notice all these guys you call out always resort to say you are trying to cancel them.
I think the biggest issue is their quality control, i doubt the social media team would be able to find this specific card. They probably need to jump through hoops to even make an internal email to the rest of the departments about this card. Their quality control NEEDS to catch this shit though
Hey Bud! I have a bunch of Dragonball cards I want to get graded but I’m unsure of which service to go with. I was thinking CGC but after watching this I probably won’t 😅 I want to get my cards graded but idk who the best is. I want my entire graded collection to be with the same provider so I was wondering who you could recommend? Thanks!
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I used to be a big cgc guy, not anymore. keep up the great content man, the community needs it!
Thanks for the Video and the work looking into this. That being said I really don't think there is a problem here. Really all he is doing with this product is cleaning the dirt and grime off the card and restoring its original shine. He puts the product on and lets it do the job then removes it. The same thing is done to Comics, Books, Paintings, Statues, Action figures, and kinds of other collectibles. Video games are notorious for this. You take a scratched up game that doesn't play run it through a sanding and polishing process and it's like new again. I know that in most cases you would tell someone that a collectible has been restored. I don't think what he is doing here is restoring, it's more cleaning. CGC also offers a cleaning a pressing service for comics which could be considered altering the comic book yet they still put a blue label on the graded book and not the purple restored comic label. I promise you cards cleaned like this have been graded by PSA, Beckett, and any other company grading cards. In all fairness, you should break out the tools again and start cracking those PSA cases. To further add how many people go to sell a car and the first thing they do is either clean the heck out of it and polish it to a factory shine or have a professional company do it. Would this also be considered altering they can make scratches go away on a car temporarily and put back a factory shine also temporarily? Just long enough to deceive a potential buyer. In closing, I do agree if a product like this is being used it should be tested to make sure it won't permanently harm your cards. Once again thanks for the call out on this product and I will be looking harder now at the cards I buy, just to make sure if a product was used on them it wasn't left on it to damage the card later.
What card company has the most durable slabs and worth going through? I have a signed steve burns card and my anxiety is thru the roof w who to go through w such a unique card that i got??
When you made your last video on CGC and they replied with that Instagram Do's and Don'ts - They said below the post, "Questions? Our DMs are always open!" I asked a simple question about their submission process and about memberships and still haven't received a reply lol Keep up the great work OB!
CGC has been doing some really shady stuff like this in the comic book world too. Last year they accepted and graded books that blatantly had an aftermarket, not publisher approved cover stapled on. What's even wilder in my opinion is that they have green (qualified) and purple (restored) labels that can go on comics, so why not use them here? The labels are pretty much the exact same just much smaller. At least label it and let people know it's been altered.
im tired of the fake stuff going around. keep being real bro, ive been wanting to make my first submission but have been holding back because i cant choose where i want to send it. but at least i can knock cgc off the list 👌🔥🔥
@@OpossumBud I appreciate it bro. I got back into Pokémon a few months ago and at first just saw all those watered down, Disney poketubers. Found your channel 2 weeks ago and havnt looked back since
Glad ur done, because I’m not grading with PSA ever, never ever again CGC all the way all the way for me. All grading companies have their issues especially PSA grading a fake bunch of jordan cards, that’s sad & incompetent, PSA is not trust worthy & my cards will never go there for grading
I submitted to CGC for cards once. Submitted under the express tier that was supposed to have a 5 day turnaround. Waited over 6 weeks for my cards, and 1 came back a good point under what I felt it should have gotten. With membership costs, shipping costs, and wait time, it isn’t worth any of it. Especially after every Timmy and their mom are sending their cards in to get graded. You’ve got people grading common cards for god’s sake Keep it up bro, I love your brutality and honest takes
I support what your doing! Wish someone would hold videogame graders witch cgc just started, accountable! Some companies have graded fakes among other issues.
Good call out. Indeed disappointing to see as a collector who values condition and the trust that comes with grading standards. However, I’m not sure what to do with this info. Surely PSA would pass this through as well, no? And what’s to prevent a raw card from being altered and sold. Most of my cards are in binders, but I can’t see a world where I wouldn’t want my best cards on display being graded. But again, love this type of awareness to hopefully change their practices if vocalized enough. Cheers!
I literally laid it all out for them, they responded, said they don’t take that, and then took it…. Just made me see how little they care imo… i appreciate ya! 🙏🏽
Man I feel you on this "cgc". I live 2 hours from home base. I sent in an error promo meowth and it came back as a 5 and non error. Was told by 3 cgc employees I should sent it in to get graded as error spent the extra and separate shipping for it to be a 5 and non error. After contacting they said we don't recognized that error. Gtfo. So my card is missing a layer of card towards the top .
Hey bud, I’ve been planning on doing content for a while but I’ve been putting it off for so long, and your content has made both me and my friend more motivated than ever to make content related to Pokémon, also, fuck CGC I never liked them anyway tbh, they always felt like a great value Beckett to me idk.
very sad to see from CGC, but im not suprised at all unfortunately. Putting some random splooge on your cards thats supposed to be "strong" and effective should not be okay and not good for the cards. Great vid Opossum,
Only thing I might ask is when this guy posted the video of the polishing of the card maybe he had already sent it in and it was too late to stop the grading of it or it was already graded.
Well me showing them that someone did it with video proof and calling the name and the card they will be sending I think would be a sure fire way to tell 👀
Sad to hear honestly. It'll suck to be someone that owns that card when it mutates and turns green because of weird liquids used on it years earlier. I personally don't care much for grading cards but it's nice to have alternatives to PSA. The gnat deserves at least a CGC 6.9.
I feel like this video confirms my suspicion of you serving or having served in the military. I’m about to get out (I’m MX) and as soon as I heard your voice I thought of a douchey crew chief E-4😂😂😂😂 No shade, there’s definitely some nostalgia there for me. Thanks for the awesome videos virgin
PSA and Becket. That’s it. Opossum sorry I asked my question so terribly on the last episode, but what do you think will be the most expensive pull in Crown Zenith?
i really wanted cgc to be good. I did two subs with them totalling over 100 cards and i know their grading scale is different but i just cant get over how strict they are. I sent in what i believed were absolute mint cards and only got back 1 cgc10 out of over 100 cards. My first sub i was a bit lax on but the second sub i really wanted to make sure i wasted no money on even subpar. Either way, it just seems like psa, although very lenient, is still the way to go
I stopped considering CGC as an option a few months or so back. A few years ago I liked them but with recent authentication issues It's either PSA or BGS if I know its a Black Label.
If you still want to I encourage it but y’all deserve the info before ya do it, they dropped the ball when I literally gave them everything.. thank you truly 🙏🏽
Agree with your take but sincerely don’t know how they can prevent it, unless there’s some dead giveaway on the cars that it’s been polished or altered
Listen, as far as slabs, I’ve always been ehhh about CGC. This further cements my gut feeling about them. Glad I don’t have any slabs with them. Keep up the lords work, we appreciate tf out of you!
A 7.5 is a "win?" I agree it should come with a designation on the label but I doubt the Kurt's made any difference as to the grade of the card lol 7.5 CGC is not winning, y'all
I’ll never understand why people claim they have a partnership with someone. I’m going to just tell people I partnered with Opossum Bud when it comes to Japanese cards
I gave up on CGC a while back. I was frustrated when I sent a bunch of cards and it just felt like they just threw a generic "8.5" grade on a lot of cards when they had a long return time, almost like they didn't even grade some of them. Only happened with my bulk submissions, my higher priced subs always had better grades and never had the generic 8.5 grade. Now, they send out much higher grades, which shows that they eased up on the harsh grading they began with. If I'm not going to get consistency, I'll just stick with the inconsistent company that actually has value.
@@OpossumBud absolutely I was early and only sent in my cream of the crop. Got 0 tens with tons of 9.5s basically like they refused to give a 10 and I always had two 10's and two 9.5 subgrades. Then I hear months later that 10's are all of a sudden super easy. I now refuse to use CGC ever again.
CGC became a tiny relevant due to BGS and PSA being on hold during covid. Now that they're back, CGC isn't looking hot. Those who defend CGC are the ones heavily invested into the cards they graded. :/
why would you crack the slabs? Id be curious if anyone does PSA or Beckett. to be fair I feel like everyone has problems except beckett. PSA has had worse scandels in my opinion. im newer though
Continue to call out the bs bro. Community needs this content.
I don’t mind for y’all! Thank you truly 🙏🏽
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Psa and beckett still grade them
Need it bro
Pure Facts
This biggest issue that i see here is people altering their cards and then selling them off to people as NM, without mentioning the fact that there’s polish on them. Saddest part about this? I legit believe that none of these grading companies can tell whether they are altered or not.
Exactly they will exchange hands and people will have no idea anything about it… losing money potentially… thank you 🙏🏽
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Yeah they can’t I seen psa let it slide too it’s crazy. All companies let these altered cards slide every so often
@@ACruz-ks2nl Cash means more than transparency nowadays I guess, but I’m thinking they just can’t even tell. Bad time to grade imo.
Totally respect your opinion on this. Especially after doing the legwork.
I do feel like a lot of people are missing the big issue here though. And that's whether or not the splooge is actually detectable/noticed by ANY grading company.
Has anyone sent this stuff to PSA, BECKETT, or SGC and reported back?
CGCs feet dragging is upsetting, but I'm more worried about this shit effecting card grading as a whole.
So I get the detection thing, but what people are overlooking about this scenario is I showed them the person, the card, and proof of them applying stuff to the cards… should’ve at least got them and that’s what gets me
Thank you truly 🙏🏽
This is what my instant thought was, because everyone is now ‘ooo thats why you should use PSA’ so I’d be super interested to see if this works with PSA and Becketts too 🤔
Just sad that this shit happens man, just let us collect our shiny cardboard and go find something else to ruin 🤦🏻♂️
@@OpossumBud Oh no, I fully agree better attention should have been paid here - especially after you did the leg work. CGC undoubtedly dropped the ball there.
My concern is the mob mentality people like to get after. Those, oh CGC is bad - time to jump on PSA, Beckett, insert name here.
And NO, everyone needs to be looked at here with a careful eye. Because odds are if CGC isn't detecting it others aren't either.
You called out this one example, but how many other cards from other customers are slipping through the cracks everywhere else?
As popular as PSA is, I'm sure they have handled their own handful of splooge cards by now.
I'm hoping these companies at the very least get their hands on this stuff and actually take a look at it. Figure out if there is a way to recognise its use. Identify is it damaging cards? If so to what extent? Because frankly, otherwise every company is at fault here - not just CGC.
This is precisely why I generally only grade my own cards and primarily just for display. Because frankly who knows the history of a card.
@@MountyLive Precisely. We as the consumers here really need to take a close look at everyone here.
This is an eye opener for all grading companies and to assume it's isolated to CGC is negligent.
Should CGC have handled this situation better? ABSOLUTELY. But that's the small issue of what could be a much bigger problem.
I agree with Critikal. I think graded cards are a scam. Keep your slabs. I only want raw.
I’m in that now for sure with CGC, homies can’t even do their job even when I lay it out for them 😐
@@OpossumBud i never understood the need to have someone independently verify my stuffs quality. Let the end buyer make that determination. With all these buyer protections. A smart buyer makes sure they have these protections in place before buying anything online. But everyone wants a deal and goes to back alley markets with shady Pokémon slingers, and then get upset when they get got. Its like going to skidrow and expecting not run into junkies and someone looking to rob you if they get the chance. Its silly. Theres no need for it. Pokémon at retail prices appreciates as whole still better than the S&P 500. Year over year. 15%+ annually is great. But people want more always. They want that 40-50-60% return and do some real shady stuff and buy from real shady people.
I’m with you. I don’t get the need to grade your cards other then people trying to make money on it.
Just give me the raw touchable cards!
Common Critikal W. Especially in Australia card grading is soooo expensive and not worth it
I might start just collecting raw cards. I literally just got back a graded card from. BGS, and guess what? They graded the freaking card upside-down! Are you kidding me? How does this happen? All these companies should be avoided. It's all opinionated based on the people they hire.
I'm loving my binder collections more and more with each passing day. I love me a good slab, but nothing beats paging through my banger binders.
Binders seem to be the way to go honestly 👀
Amen
Its always something special about going through a binder. And going through other trainers binders at local meetups. Cards locked up in plastic can't replicate that
@@Joelito2300 I find that non-Pokemon fans (basically every single friend of mine) are even interested in looking through my binders as opposed to my slabs. I actually asked one of them why. They said it's less intimidating, more relaxing - like looking through a photo album.
That's how I do it, just a big binder. Cards don't have to be high quality, sometimes they're yard sale collections that I assimilated. I'm comfortable putting just about any one of my cards into a deck. It's cheaper and it's wholesome. No drama or anything, just bliss.
There's nothing better than flipping through the ol 3 ring binder, looking at all my cards. I used to bring my best binders to the bars and I'd bring a new chick home every night, never failed. I had to stop because they'd get so wet from looking at my cards, soaking the floor. One night a gentleman at the bar slipped and broke his neck. After that I had to take a step back and realized I was partially responsible.
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Same thing happened to me. Card binder is the ultimate chick magnet. Don't leave home without it!
That sad part about life is, this card polish could be an amazing plus for people who wanted to buy cheaper cards make them look nice and keep them in their collection for display. Only problem is that people suck and they will try and cheat their way to more money. It’s just too bad
That’s 100% the problem and CGC knew about it with this card in this instance…. I appreciate ya homie 🙏🏽
“Your word means something where I come from.” PERIOD!!! 🔥👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
That’s just me, maybe some people don’t care but that’s me 🤷🏽♂️ thank you 🙏🏽
Really enjoying the videos! Thanks for bringing to light all of these poketubers and companies that are actually bad for the community! Keep it up and much love!
No problem y’all deserve the info and I don’t mind giving it to ya to help with decisions here 🙏🏽 thank you
I personally have never been a fan of graded cards... you have certainly helped me decide on not getting my cards graded... I'm definitely behind you on this, bro... also, I haven't seen too many videos of ppl cracking slabs safely. I would be interested in seeing that... also, I appreciate the truth man
Additional comment - these companies need to actually get their hands on this buffing/void filling compound, send it to a 3rd party to do a detailed analysis on it, and create a non destructive chemical authentication process - or perhaps determine what spectrum of light it reacts to.
That would do it 🙏🏽👀 not a bad idea
@@OpossumBud If there are companies that can find out how many neanderthals your ancestors slept with, they can certainly identify this polymer.
Amazing work, my dude! Flat out amazing work! You are the best and we’ve seriously needed you for shit like this for a long time! Keep up the super amazing and solid work, bro!
I literally look forward to your videos opossum. Thank you so much for your content!
Thanks for the quality! You're like the moist critikal of pokemon news/drama. Keep it up!
Your Chanel is going to be huge, you speak the truth and people are desperate for that. Keep up the great work
No problem I’m here for y’all and I appreciate the time y’all give me 🙏🏽
Preech bro 💯 agree!!
It’s definitely a great chanel 🎉🎉🎉
Grading is a joke.
Imagine buying CGC slabs to crack for binder collections and you find Kurts Card Splooge on them 💀
Could happen in a few years, no one knows what it is or the effect that the product that removes serial numbers and signatures will have on cards in the future… i appreciate ya 🙏🏽
Just found your channel, I'm a bit new to the scene but really appreciate the honesty here. I was about to get a couple of my cards sent to cgc too 😅
By all means if you think it’s best I encourage it? You just deserve this info 🙏🏽 thank you!
DK my man!
Love you and your videos man ❤
Thank you your medal 🏅
Damn man that sucks I love CGC - and the worst part is that shit he did to the card definitely altered it and definitely improved the grade! He made like a 5 into a 7.5 🤦🏼 and like you said it’s untested so for all we know that splooge could start eating the card away in a year! Scary stuff man. Good thing I hardly ever buy slabs 😂 but I’m Ngl I’ll keep using CGC for my own stuff. Only because I know that shit would breeze right through psa too 😂 great vid opossum this is great information for collectors to know - keep keeping it real homie
I’ve used cgc before but before this Kurt’s Cleaning care shit. Definitely going to consider this before grading with them again
Just here to provide info for y’all 🙏🏽 appreciate ya homie!
Appreciate your honest down to earth views on the community. Need more people to keep it real and say what we really think.
Insane! Thanks for this tip. I was already kinda iffy about cgc personal. I’ll be sticking with psa 💎
Love your channel! Keep up the good work
That's fuckin crazy that you even showed them the card in question. And they still graded it. Fuckin wild. Good thing I don't have a subscription to them or any other grading place for that matter.
That’s why I’m done. Literally zero cares and I did all the work for them 🤷🏽♂️ I’m personally out 😐 thank you and best of luck for whatever you do in the future! 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud I'm probably just going to keep all my cards raw. Unless I find a trustworthy person to get a few cards done through PSA.
holy s. rayquaza. you got me on that one. banette be poppin off too. feels more like a medium fry. kinda starting to heat up under the lamp, then bam someone orders a extra large fry.
Dang man when you put it that way what can I say 😂
Thank you homie! 🙏🏽
Me over here still indecisive about grading. This helps a bit lol
Just my take but y’all deserve the info… thank you 🙏🏽
Just found this guy, but how do you not have more subs?!? Good stuff
Because I’m not that good of a creator yet 😂 I’m getting there though and the support is humbling homie 🙏🏽
Totally agree. That stuff can damage cards in the future. Discoloration, etc
Just found your channel and subscribing because of this video. Thank you !
Yeah this is nuts.
I believe I told Rattle before and I tried to mention it to a lot of other people.
My cousin and I sent them three error cards where there was basically no border at all on the top..(like a sliver) They graded the cards didn't mark them as error.
They put the centering as like a grade 8.
Meanwhile someone like BGS would put like a 3-5 If they don't put on the slab error or OC.
So I showed CGC comparable cards with similar grade and the centering score was about the same but they were a little bit more normal cards in terms of centering.
It was clear as day, showed them the two pictures both with the CGC slabs. Different between oc badly & other CGC cards that have centering as 8.5. They gave me a runaround for almost 8 months and it was never resolved and they just told me that they can't help me.
The only thing is I didn't do what I was going to do my plan was to do like a 10 or 15% chargeback or something but I decided to just let them deal with all the hate instead. Only recently they've been a little more lenient on the grades but yeah they would screw up a lot of people's cards and grade them wrong and often put 8.5 grade.
And this is coming from someone that sends cards into PSA and Beckett often and I usually get 9.5s and 10s, so I'm pretty accurate.
They will just take your money for anything and they don't care about anything else.
I literally just sent CGC 32 cards for grading for the first time on 11 jan… i wish i would have seen this sooner and i would have made the option to critically research more on the other companies better. This alone makes me question the slabs being sold on eBay OR if i ever want to sell mine and this causes CGC slabs to NO SALE and NO BIDS. 😮 You just earned yourself a new sub on the plus side. Darn it…
And I’m telling you, I don’t care what people tell you and I don’t care what the CGC community says if you take anything from this video it should be this: I literally showed them the person who was altering cards with proof of them doing it, which cards they were doing it to, and video proof… they acknowledged it, said their standard on their page acting all noble, and still let the card through. THEY. DO. NOT. CARE. Sorry I couldn’t get this out sooner and best of luck of your sub 🙏🏽
It's not just CGC. None of the grading companies have confirmed they can detect the use of this stuff... either way, if you were planning on selling your CGC graded cards you'll do fine. If you plan on selling them in the future, you will almost certainly do just as fine.
Pretty much all of these grading companies have done or do things that cast serious doubt on whether a card graded a 10 means anything other than "a second human on this earth felt this card was mint, at a specific point in time"...
You'll be fine.
I appreciate your perspective. Thank you.
I have so many great cards some very valuable and some I just truly love the artwork. I would love to have them graded but it scares the 💩 outta me 😅
I am just telling you my experience and encourage you to do whatever you think you should with your cards! Thank you 🙏🏽
Wow, the algorithm actually doing work to put this in my feed. Memes aside, I've found this video REALLY informative, as a person that also does not believe in "touching up" cards for grading, their response was such lip service bullshit.
If they wouldn't do anything about it, not even publicly address this alteration, much less rescind the cards registrated grading, then there is definitely a loss of faith in their other cards not being chemically altered or that they really know how to catch it.
Thank you for standing by your standards as well and informing us of why you're making these decisions for u. Subscribed
No problem and the thing with me in addition to what you said, which I agree with, is I laid out everything for them and they still dropped the ball! Only thing I could’ve done more was wait at CGC and stop the sun myself 😂 thank you truly and it means a lot! I’ll try to stay worth your sub 🙏🏽
Not gonna lie I have been waiting to grade a lot of my collection and every time I’m thinking about it I just decide against it smh now I’m definitely back to just keeping my cards in sleeves/cardsavers
They in my experience it seems like even if you give them concise proof of foul play they will just let it go through…. Just my take and I wish the best for whatever you do!
@@OpossumBud Definitely man I see it the same way the proof was basically undeniable and the card still gets graded the fact they liked jc’s stuff too just ridiculous
Never bought into the slabs bullshit and never will. Can send a card to 10 different grading company's and get 10 different grades. All crap.
I’m with ya at this point man…. Appreciate the feedback 🙏🏽
I was just on RUclips looking for reviews for graders for one piece tcg but this video caught my attention thanks for calling out the bs like how is a grading company not gonna hold to their standards when it can literally affect their grading values
Hey man I love looking out for your vids I play em while I take showers, good work! Also did you go up almost 200 subscribers in the past day or am I trippin??🤯
I think I did and I’m just as shocked as you honestly 👀 appreciate ya and glad I can give ya some shower listening 😁🙏🏽
8:23 I cannot stress enough how much money I put into this franchise as a whole. I’ve been a Pokémon fan since I was 10 years old I’m now 34. And it’s really disgusting to me that they’re allowing people to do essentially throw away money because you’re right as a huge fan of The franchise and the member of the hobby I want my cards as they are. And if down the line this crap he put on the card oxidizes in the slabs or if he just does colors in a little bit I would be upset because it’s no longer the grade that it was when you initially graded it.
That’s my whole thing man, and you get it. This is people money and hobby, and this crap can’t fly, especially when people show proof of it and lay out the entire thing for ya… jeez. Thank you man truly 🙏🏽
Love your channel man! I always binge rewatch your videos, you speak the truth when no one wants to hear it. Keep being real 😎 btw what shirt are you wearing?? 😳 lol
An anime shirt I got at Spensers 😂 thank you truly and thank you for the time you give the vids 🙏🏽
Hell yeah dude the anime spencer shirts are fire! And no thank you man, I love Pokémon , 2nd generation (gold version)is the game that started my love for it lol, just sad to see all these “know it alls” peeps talk about Pokémon who don’t know a thing about Pokémon come around during Covid , I would get clowned on in HS for liking Pokémon like 10 years ago 😂
Love how the guy is basically bragging that he's a slime ball. I notice all these guys you call out always resort to say you are trying to cancel them.
It’s all they can do and they never prove it 😐 thank you homie 🙏🏽
Lol love your name! Whoop, whoop!!!
This pretty cool 😎
@@1x5Games WHOOP WHOOP MMFWCL
I think the biggest issue is their quality control, i doubt the social media team would be able to find this specific card. They probably need to jump through hoops to even make an internal email to the rest of the departments about this card. Their quality control NEEDS to catch this shit though
Hey Bud! I have a bunch of Dragonball cards I want to get graded but I’m unsure of which service to go with. I was thinking CGC but after watching this I probably won’t 😅 I want to get my cards graded but idk who the best is. I want my entire graded collection to be with the same provider so I was wondering who you could recommend? Thanks!
I used to be a big cgc guy, not anymore. keep up the great content man, the community needs it!
Thank you big dawg and once again it’s always your choice! 😁🙏🏽
No one is making content like you man keep it up!
Thank you truly homie 🙏🏽
#CrackedCGCslabvirgingang
Gang gang baby 😎
The Lillie Dreams come true is such a banger
She is nice and safe and I swear a PSA 10 😁 more to come and thank you!
Thanks for the Video and the work looking into this. That being said I really don't think there is a problem here. Really all he is doing with this product is cleaning the dirt and grime off the card and restoring its original shine. He puts the product on and lets it do the job then removes it. The same thing is done to Comics, Books, Paintings, Statues, Action figures, and kinds of other collectibles. Video games are notorious for this. You take a scratched up game that doesn't play run it through a sanding and polishing process and it's like new again. I know that in most cases you would tell someone that a collectible has been restored. I don't think what he is doing here is restoring, it's more cleaning. CGC also offers a cleaning a pressing service for comics which could be considered altering the comic book yet they still put a blue label on the graded book and not the purple restored comic label. I promise you cards cleaned like this have been graded by PSA, Beckett, and any other company grading cards. In all fairness, you should break out the tools again and start cracking those PSA cases. To further add how many people go to sell a car and the first thing they do is either clean the heck out of it and polish it to a factory shine or have a professional company do it. Would this also be considered altering they can make scratches go away on a car temporarily and put back a factory shine also temporarily? Just long enough to deceive a potential buyer. In closing, I do agree if a product like this is being used it should be tested to make sure it won't permanently harm your cards. Once again thanks for the call out on this product and I will be looking harder now at the cards I buy, just to make sure if a product was used on them it wasn't left on it to damage the card later.
Yeah and those signatures and serial numbers it removes per their website, they must be written in dirt 👍🏽 so true
@@OpossumBud As long as it's not in an ink pen there are products out there that will remove it.
What card company has the most durable slabs and worth going through? I have a signed steve burns card and my anxiety is thru the roof w who to go through w such a unique card that i got??
When you made your last video on CGC and they replied with that Instagram Do's and Don'ts - They said below the post, "Questions? Our DMs are always open!" I asked a simple question about their submission process and about memberships and still haven't received a reply lol Keep up the great work OB!
CGC has been doing some really shady stuff like this in the comic book world too. Last year they accepted and graded books that blatantly had an aftermarket, not publisher approved cover stapled on. What's even wilder in my opinion is that they have green (qualified) and purple (restored) labels that can go on comics, so why not use them here? The labels are pretty much the exact same just much smaller. At least label it and let people know it's been altered.
Another great video man definitely not going to cgc personally any more! Thank you sir 🙏
The RDCworld voiceover at the end got me!🤣 Hey if you don't have your word what do you have??
That’s my thing, I gave them everything to catch this card… still got through. Appreciate ya! 🙏🏽
im tired of the fake stuff going around. keep being real bro, ive been wanting to make my first submission but have been holding back because i cant choose where i want to send it. but at least i can knock cgc off the list 👌🔥🔥
opposum the Karen of Pokemon TCG lulz, love it bro! all your videos are bangers
Karen status baby I’ll take it… y’all deserve the info 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud I appreciate it bro. I got back into Pokémon a few months ago and at first just saw all those watered down, Disney poketubers. Found your channel 2 weeks ago and havnt looked back since
Glad ur done, because I’m not grading with PSA ever, never ever again CGC all the way all the way for me. All grading companies have their issues especially PSA grading a fake bunch of jordan cards, that’s sad & incompetent, PSA is not trust worthy & my cards will never go there for grading
I don’t care
#1 PokeTuber. Only dude who calls fools out on their SHIT! 🔥
I’m here for you! Make your own choices this is just me 😐
I get the appeal of grading, but I will always prefer flipping through my binder and seeing my cards there! Good stuff as always brotha!
I’m mostly a binder guy and I can agree with that! 😎🙏🏽
I submitted to CGC for cards once. Submitted under the express tier that was supposed to have a 5 day turnaround. Waited over 6 weeks for my cards, and 1 came back a good point under what I felt it should have gotten. With membership costs, shipping costs, and wait time, it isn’t worth any of it. Especially after every Timmy and their mom are sending their cards in to get graded. You’ve got people grading common cards for god’s sake
Keep it up bro, I love your brutality and honest takes
So where can I get this Kurt's conditioner stuff... asking for a friend
Nope
WHY IS EVERYONE SAYING YOU'RE CANCELING THEM? 😂
It's just you calling out bad behavior and wanting accountability. Jesus Christ 🤣😭
Because they can’t say anything else 😂
Thank you bobert!! 😁🙏🏽
“They were dumb easy to open” i love that😂😂
Keep it coming!! Facts are great!! Especially in the world we live in today.
I support what your doing! Wish someone would hold videogame graders witch cgc just started, accountable! Some companies have graded fakes among other issues.
Good video my guy enjoyed as always!!!!!
You are a legend my good sir.
Definitely, thanks for pointing this out. You make valid/fair points.
Bro, this video has been out for 1 hour and has this many comments. Killing it bro
I’m just as shocked as you man 😳 just thank y’all for giving me some of your time y’all are doing it!
@Opossum Bud you keep doing right by the community and we'll do right by you, virtual blow jobs n shit
Good call out. Indeed disappointing to see as a collector who values condition and the trust that comes with grading standards. However, I’m not sure what to do with this info. Surely PSA would pass this through as well, no? And what’s to prevent a raw card from being altered and sold.
Most of my cards are in binders, but I can’t see a world where I wouldn’t want my best cards on display being graded. But again, love this type of awareness to hopefully change their practices if vocalized enough. Cheers!
I literally laid it all out for them, they responded, said they don’t take that, and then took it…. Just made me see how little they care imo… i appreciate ya! 🙏🏽
Man I feel you on this "cgc". I live 2 hours from home base. I sent in an error promo meowth and it came back as a 5 and non error. Was told by 3 cgc employees I should sent it in to get graded as error spent the extra and separate shipping for it to be a 5 and non error. After contacting they said we don't recognized that error. Gtfo. So my card is missing a layer of card towards the top .
Hey bud, I’ve been planning on doing content for a while but I’ve been putting it off for so long, and your content has made both me and my friend more motivated than ever to make content related to Pokémon, also, fuck CGC I never liked them anyway tbh, they always felt like a great value Beckett to me idk.
Interesting to know you work with aerospace parts. I also work with aerospace from time to time
very sad to see from CGC, but im not suprised at all unfortunately. Putting some random splooge on your cards thats supposed to be "strong" and effective should not be okay and not good for the cards. Great vid Opossum,
No problem and glad you took the time to listen to my take 🙏🏽
Only thing I might ask is when this guy posted the video of the polishing of the card maybe he had already sent it in and it was too late to stop the grading of it or it was already graded.
Prolly gonna get PSA 10 on some of those cards now! Congrats 😂
How can you tell if you’ve bought a card that has the cleaning product on there?
Well me showing them that someone did it with video proof and calling the name and the card they will be sending I think would be a sure fire way to tell 👀
Sad to hear honestly. It'll suck to be someone that owns that card when it mutates and turns green because of weird liquids used on it years earlier. I personally don't care much for grading cards but it's nice to have alternatives to PSA. The gnat deserves at least a CGC 6.9.
That gnat is the real star here 😂 you just never know with this unapproved stuff in your cards man… thank you truly 🙏🏽
I feel like this video confirms my suspicion of you serving or having served in the military. I’m about to get out (I’m MX) and as soon as I heard your voice I thought of a douchey crew chief E-4😂😂😂😂 No shade, there’s definitely some nostalgia there for me. Thanks for the awesome videos virgin
PSA and Becket. That’s it. Opossum sorry I asked my question so terribly on the last episode, but what do you think will be the most expensive pull in Crown Zenith?
Mewtwo or one of the gold cards, Giratina or Arceus
@@OpossumBud There better be a God Pack 🤞
CGC = “Cleaned” and Graded Cards
Ooooooo got ‘em 😂🔥
@@OpossumBudThanks it took me 11 months 23 days 17 hours and 7 seconds to come up with it 🥹👉👈
i really wanted cgc to be good. I did two subs with them totalling over 100 cards and i know their grading scale is different but i just cant get over how strict they are. I sent in what i believed were absolute mint cards and only got back 1 cgc10 out of over 100 cards. My first sub i was a bit lax on but the second sub i really wanted to make sure i wasted no money on even subpar. Either way, it just seems like psa, although very lenient, is still the way to go
I stopped considering CGC as an option a few months or so back.
A few years ago I liked them but with recent authentication issues
It's either PSA or BGS if I know its a Black Label.
Great video! So sad to know this is happening.....
#BINDERGANG
Binder gang 😎
Your nearly at 6k 🎉
welp I have a bulk submission that I’ve been procrastinating on and was planning to go to CGC, now I’m not so sure.
If you still want to I encourage it but y’all deserve the info before ya do it, they dropped the ball when I literally gave them everything.. thank you truly 🙏🏽
Agree with your take but sincerely don’t know how they can prevent it, unless there’s some dead giveaway on the cars that it’s been polished or altered
Listen, as far as slabs, I’ve always been ehhh about CGC. This further cements my gut feeling about them. Glad I don’t have any slabs with them. Keep up the lords work, we appreciate tf out of you!
No thank you for all the support gurl it means a lot! You made the smart move honestly 🙏🏽
A 7.5 is a "win?" I agree it should come with a designation on the label but I doubt the Kurt's made any difference as to the grade of the card lol 7.5 CGC is not winning, y'all
Do you have a link to the stuff he used to fix his card?
And thanks for letting everyone know about Kurts Card Care. Where can I get a bottle of that stuff? pls share the link. 😆
You know what I love? Collecting raw cards. Rip to those CGC slabs haha
Cards are nice and safe but I’m raw now… I will no longer be supporting them… feel free to if you want though! Thank you truly for your time! 😁🙏🏽
CGC liking the actual post after claiming they don’t support it is pure gold. Great upload as usual Opposum
They know about it 👀
Can not wait till your next vid
I’ll never understand why people claim they have a partnership with someone. I’m going to just tell people I partnered with Opossum Bud when it comes to Japanese cards
😂😂 basically the same thing I don’t know man 🤷🏽♂️ thank you truly 🙏🏽
I gave up on CGC a while back. I was frustrated when I sent a bunch of cards and it just felt like they just threw a generic "8.5" grade on a lot of cards when they had a long return time, almost like they didn't even grade some of them. Only happened with my bulk submissions, my higher priced subs always had better grades and never had the generic 8.5 grade. Now, they send out much higher grades, which shows that they eased up on the harsh grading they began with. If I'm not going to get consistency, I'll just stick with the inconsistent company that actually has value.
Yeah I remember that the inconsistency in grading was big for awhile, pumped out tons of tens after almost none and that pissed people off 😂
@@OpossumBud absolutely I was early and only sent in my cream of the crop. Got 0 tens with tons of 9.5s basically like they refused to give a 10 and I always had two 10's and two 9.5 subgrades. Then I hear months later that 10's are all of a sudden super easy. I now refuse to use CGC ever again.
@@OpossumBud Yep, that was around the time I quit using them personally.
The original I'm done video. 😂😂😂😂
Only I mean mine 😂
CGC became a tiny relevant due to BGS and PSA being on hold during covid. Now that they're back, CGC isn't looking hot. Those who defend CGC are the ones heavily invested into the cards they graded. :/
why would you crack the slabs? Id be curious if anyone does PSA or Beckett. to be fair I feel like everyone has problems except beckett. PSA has had worse scandels in my opinion. im newer though
Because I won’t support a company who won’t stick to their word… i appreciate ya but this was my choice man! 🙏🏽
@@OpossumBud oh I hope I am not coming across as attacking you, just curious. Actually enjoy your videos, keep it up.