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Collector 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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Collector 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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Masculinity takes a holiday. EbayMafia private msg quote post Address this user
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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Collector Paint_Monk private msg quote post Address this user
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Originally Posted by Jesse_O
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.


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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Originally Posted by Jesse_O
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.


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...


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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SpongeBob Comics #1 sells for $991! Joosh private msg quote post Address this user
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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Collector Frontier2Xterra private msg quote post Address this user



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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Collector CatCovers private msg quote post Address this user
Mistakes like this don't inspire much confidence.


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Collector comic_book_man private msg quote post Address this user
@CatCovers lol!!
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Collector CatCovers private msg quote post Address this user
@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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Collector classicaaron private msg quote post Address this user
wow that is priceless. maybe they intentionally spelled it wrong since they aren't a real company
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Collector Red_Blade private msg quote post Address this user
LMAO
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