What the heck is CBGC?10238
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Paint_Monk private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Admins, if this topic is not allowed, please PM me and I'll delete it stat. Does anyone know who or what the heck CBGC is? They appear to be a grading service, but I've never heard of them and they've got a funky looking slab. Are they knew? Are they a fly by night? Just curious. |
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| Last I heard, they stopped accepting comics about 6 years ago after they got a letter from the CGC lawyers. | ||
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Paint_Monk private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Hmm. That's odd. I wonder what grounds CGC would have to send a legal letter... | ||
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| Didnt they become PGX based on the legal threats? I feel like I heard that several years ago. | ||
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| Not sure. But it doesn't take much to get them to do it. They sent CBCS a letter right after they started. The current checkmark that CBCS uses used to be a star. CGC claimed that it was too close to the star that one of their partner companies used on grading coins. Borock actually used it as a chance to hold a contest for what design to use. That is how we ended up with the checkmark. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Jesse_O Wow. If you can't win the market war with your quality, win it by attempting to shut down the competition with a lawsuit. Needless to say, I prefer CBCS... |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Paint_Monk Well, in fairness, there is a reasonable argument for protecting the publicly recognized symbols that are associated with your quality. The star is kind of a stretch but CGC vs. CBGC seems like a pretty blatant attempt by a new company to confuse the public and take advantage of brand awareness that another company has spent years earning and developing. |
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| PGX used to be CGG, which is remarkably close to CGC. You can still find these early slabs on eBay by searching “CGG PGX” I don’t know what CBGC is or was. |
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 Is it something like this? If so I bet the “comany” was made at kinkos and sent out from Billy Bob’s garage after being graded by Jeb. |
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Mistakes like this don't inspire much confidence. |
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| @CatCovers lol!! | ||
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@comic_book_man Actually, @Frontier2Xterra pointed it out first - I just hadn't scrolled down far enough to see that he had when I drew on the picture.  |
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| wow that is priceless. maybe they intentionally spelled it wrong since they aren't a real company | ||
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