Turnaround 5.014486

Originally Posted by Elvinv
My order received 3/29 and in grading/labels since 5/10.

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Originally Posted by GAC
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Originally Posted by Comicninja0215
@GAC Where were yours received in??

Received late March....around the 30th...hopefully they won't sit in Labels for too long.

Originally Posted by EbayMafia
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Originally Posted by Bronte
Stupid question. If you know the approximate turn around time and you have verified they recieved the books by the tracking number by the usps / fedex / ups delivery, why would you bother them so early in the waiting process? I could understand if it's been 2/3 of the wait time and nothing changed, but some of the submissions are barely there a month.....

@Bronte I think that's a fair question to ask. I think the most likely answers are A)People don't have enough experience with submitting to trust the process. Or B) Fretting is part of the fun? It reminds of going through the TSA security at the airport. If you're behind a bunch of business travelers everything is smooth and the line moves quickly. If you get stuck behind a couple families that don't travel very much...you can expect to spend quite a bit of time in that line.
One thing I've noticed with the new crush of business is that Labeling/Slabbing is now part of the bottle neck. It used to be that once you left grading it was just a couple days until your books hit shipping. On my last submission it took 5 weeks in Labeling after leaving grading...so they must be short-handed in the Labeling/Slabbing department. My Raw Grade books skipped this and came back to me 5 weeks faster than my slabbed submissions.

Originally Posted by Bronte
@timberghost

It wasn't meant as an insult. It was a question. If you took it as an insult my apologies.

Maybe after this submission and you get a feeling on how things work, you see things from a slightly different perspective.

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Just for clarification, I prefaced my question by saying stupid question. Meaning MY deficit in understanding. I never said you or your questions were stupid.

Originally Posted by Bobashek
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Originally Posted by Scifinator
@Bobashek - i had comics delivered in may that were just updated from submitting to either received or processing.

NICE. Maybe that means mine will show up sooner? Here's hoping.

Originally Posted by Bronte
Just for clarification, I prefaced my question by saying stupid question. Meaning MY deficit in understanding. I never said you or your questions were stupid.

Originally Posted by Scifinator
This is not me being a zealot (which I admittedly am), this is me being pragmatic. While I would like to have it all...
1) great product,
2) great quality,
3) great/fair pricing,
4) low Turn-Around-Time,
5) timely tracking of my valued possessions,
6) and a perfectly knowledgeable customer service team ready to respond at my beck and call...

If circumstances dictate sacrifices, for me, well I just laid out my priorities. The last three I can live without unless someone provides or does a better job at the 1st three (which nobody does at this time). Mess with the 3rd, now I am soul searching. Screw with the first two, I am gone.

Originally Posted by Scifinator
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Originally Posted by timberghost
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Originally Posted by Scifinator
@Bobashek - i had comics delivered in may that were just updated from submitting to either received or processing.

I must have hit right before the tidal wave cause mine were delivered and they posted as received in 2 days (I.K.R.!!) and the tat back then was lower

@timberghost - Speaking of March, I had a grade only submission that I shipped out at end of Dec, so CBCS received 1st week of Jan. They completed and it was picked up by MCS near the end of March.

TAT's had already started creeping up at that time and right before I submitted in Dec, they had been pretty on top of things with the Dashboard. That is about the time Speculation and new pandemic wave started to re-impact them, then the Freeze... Then speculation submissions went absolutely crazy and with cgc TAT's being astronomical and then they raised their prices, CBCS has been getting absolutely slammed with new customers (or business partners @ebaymafia). Add to that people like me have also slammed them as I perhaps saw an end coming to the ***** Pandemic which reading between Steve Borocks comments of not raising prices in a pandemic, I rushed to submit another 1,200 comics between May and July.

Bottom line, as bad as it is, it could be worse. Which, it actually is at cgc with 1/3 + longer TAT's and $#!+ show quality control.

This is not me being a zealot (which I admittedly am), this is me being pragmatic. While I would like to have it all...
1) great product,
2) great quality,
3) great/fair pricing,
4) low Turn-Around-Time,
5) timely tracking of my valued possessions,
6) and a perfectly knowledgeable customer service team ready to respond at my beck and call...

If circumstances dictate sacrifices, for me, well I just laid out my priorities. The last three I can live without unless someone provides or does a better job at the 1st three (which nobody does at this time). Mess with the 3rd, now I am soul searching. Screw with the first two, I am gone.

We just have to be patient and trust that the CBCS makes good which they have so far for me. If we can't then grading and/or pressing is not for us.

Scifinator diatribe manifesto out.

PS: Hopefully I did not offend anyone. This honestly started as a post to provide insight as to TAT increases for 2021 calendar year.