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Originally Posted by Vrishnak
So it looks like 2 day Modern is gone. This is the service I used the most.

Originally Posted by dielinfinite
The price increases aren’t too bad except for the witnessed signature fee which went from $5 to $20! Basically matching the cost of grading a New tier, which is ridiculous. I haven’t found pricing for VSP but that’s to close to the old VSP pricing and Slab-Only,assuming it is the same service as before with one VSP signature included is a much more attractive option now

Originally Posted by beastboy1980
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Originally Posted by Scifinator
By the way, the new TAT's seem to have actually been calculated based on 7 day work weeks, so probably much lower that posted.

any idea what the days are then for members and dealers

Originally Posted by jhaas776
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Originally Posted by NeedaNewName
Please correct me if I am wrong.

Modern price for a slow submission went from $16 to $22 with membership.

Modern express is $36 with membership.

Membership is a now one tier of $200 per year to get that 10% but no additional coupons or grading credits?

The new membership benefit is the 10% off in pricing, so your understanding is correct on that.

Originally Posted by starlord
Perhaps I missed something here, I have a paid membership I would like to use the express service but I don't see it come up when I try to enter books for submission. And if I'm correct Magazine still aren't an option until the end of the month?

Originally Posted by IronMan
@flanders @KatKomics
The shipping rates seem normal enough - they are close to CGC's FedEx shipping rates and similar to CBCS's old shipping rates. The main difference here is - and it's substantial - is that insurance is an extra cost. A LOT extra on higher value packages.

CBCS also no longer offers the option to ship by USPS Registered mail. The Gold standard in shipping. An option offered - and mostly used - by CGC. By the time a package gets to around 5K it would be cheaper to use Registered mail versus FedEx and CBCS's insurance.

This is also not a cut and dry situation. There are going to be winners and losers here. Some people - like myself and many others - have private shipping insurance. CBCS's FedEx shipping rates previously included insurance. Coverage I and many others did not need and would have opted out of paying for - if such option existed. And now it does. But if you don't have private shipping insurance and your package coming back to you is $5k or more, you'd be better off if CBCS still offered Registered Mail shipping.

I decided to mock up another submission (I have a dealer account) just to test the shipping and some other things that came to mind. Here is what I've learned.

I did four books
One Modern Express valued at $1000 ($34)
One Premium Express valued at $5000 ($340)
One Premium Express valued at $50,000 (also $340 LOL. It was also $340 at $100K, 250K)
One Vintage Plus Express valued at $4500 ($85)

Shipping - without insurance - is $30. If I wanted insurance it would be $732 more. OUCH!. $732 would pay for your private insurance for a year - probably with change left over....

I don't know how to politely say the fact that a $5000 book costs the same as $50,000 book (or a million dollar book) is just crazy. At least from a financial standpoint. That $50,000 book with a dealer discount on grading at CGC is $1,275. So IDK. This is either a goof - or CBCS wants to get some high dollar books into CBCS slabs and on the market. For example, the population report indicates they have yet to grade an Action 1. Maybe Beckett believes they need some BIG books - the HUGE books - to get respect. So if that is the case I'm all for it. I WANT CBCS to be either #1 or a #2 just milliseconds behind. But meanwhile, I am sending my $5K book to CGC for $127.50, thank you. Alternately CBCS could have accomplished the goal of attracting huge books by keeping 1 day at 3% of FMV but capping the maximum price at $$500 - $1000, saving the owners of high dollar books thousands of dollars over CGC prices. Not by expecting those of us with measly $5-10K books to pay the same price as the million dollar club members for grading.

In the past, Grade screen was ONLY available on Modern, Expanded and Consumer tiers - with or without Fast Pass. Not available on 2-Day Modern, Quickstream, Rapid and 1 Day. Every tier I tested allowed grade screening. Including the $50,000 book (an ASM 1 at 9.8 LOL) Maybe this is an oversight, but if it is not it is a really, REALLY great benefit to be able to grade screen at the higher value and much faster TAT tiers. I've told a few clients over the years that they had to choose between 2Day modern speed and Modern Fast Pass grade screen. They could not have both. Now they can. Unless this is a goof to be fixed. BTW, for those that might be unaware grade screening is also only available on the cheap tiers/slow tiers at CGC as well.

I believe this covers what I learned from this test run. I have several submissions to CBCS in the wings, but because of all the changes I have to reconfirm what clients want to use/do. Then I can run some real submissions.

Originally Posted by altomista
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Originally Posted by Sigur_Ros
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Originally Posted by altomista
For those that have done test runs on the new online submission form, can anyone find the reholder section or option? I can't seem to find it.

I saw the price. I'm talking about the online submission form. It used to give you the option to submit new books or reholder, but I'm not seeing it.