Layoffs at the CGC.21299
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ComicNinja0215 private msg quote post Address this user | |
I think I got a few return emails from pam bout my orders. This sucks... |
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| @PolarisNuclearSS2020 https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Certified-Collectibles-Group/reviews | ||
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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Quote:Originally Posted by poka Horrible....CGC is a shit show inside and out. |
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ComicNinja0215 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Looks like the real villains are the folks at Blackstone. That's awful. | ||
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 Moderators handing out titles: Boom. Roasted.
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ComicNinja0215 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @Hcanes suddenly Seymour!!!!!! Today's earworm lol |
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 I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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esaravo private msg quote post Address this user | |
Did anyone else see this? It was posted on the CGC boards, but copied from the comments on a YouTube video. |
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| @esaravo holy crap!!! That place is imploding. | ||
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I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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| Garbage...I feel bad for the honest, hard working people at CGC who were let go and still work but it's become clear these people are the minority there. Given the reputation of Blackstone, this should probably not come as a surprise as this is exactly what they do...they rip apart companies from the inside out, squeezing evey last penny out of them leaving a husk of the company behind....then they'll probably divest and leave. I'm not sure what will happen to CGC but it sounds pretty dire. I hope the company survives....gets a wake up call from this and gets back to the way they were in the 1999/2000 era. This being said...you reap what you sow and I have zero sympathy for the bad actors that put CGC in this position. |
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 I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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| The cgc has always been very clique-ish among the employees... and to a lesser extent with their favored submitters. Gift grades to favored dealers is nothing new. If you are part of the in-crowd, you can get just about whatever you want done. | ||
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 I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers).Splotches is gettin old! |
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| The incompetence, the nonsense, the damages, the scandals simply cannot go on for years without an impact as small or large it may be. Combine that with the state of the hobby; particularly on the slab front and this was inevitable. There was a graph someone posted on the CGC forum showing the decrease in submissions over the last few years. It was gruesome. |
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ComicNinja0215 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| My membership will expire at the end of the month.I'm not sorry about it. I do feel bad for what is happening there because I'm sure those people have families, and the holidays are on the horizon. That's what happens when you prioritize bad business practices over quality. Sad. | ||
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 would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by PolarisNuclearSS2020 With the economy in the shape it's been in, and layoffs and bankruptcies in the news every day for the past couple years, and companies like CGC inflating their sizes to cover for a Covid influx... and now the comic market dropping like it has been, leading to less reason to submit for grading... I think it's quite silly to reduce it down to "well that's Blackstone for ya". That also doesn't explain why CBCS is also going through layoffs. |
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I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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| I'm glad you mentioned that. I logged in to my account with the cgc and turned off the automatic renewal. I meant to do it last year and forgot. | ||
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| Without making this a political statement; I hope there will be some sort of resurgence now. | ||
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I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers). Splotches is gettin old! |
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I think we're at black Rock bottom  |
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I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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GAC private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Sigur_Ros All valid points but one can not help but connect the sharp and severe decline in quality of product and service at CGC to the introduction of Blackstone ownership. The reputation of Blackstone is well known. They care about ROI only....even if they have to bury the company they invested in, in the process. Maybe these layoffs are or would have been a natural course of action given the the COVID highs and subsequent lows but you won't convince me that Blackstone didn't severely exacerbate the situation at CGC. |
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I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 I doubt it. Have you ever heard the expression, They've hit rock bottom and continued to dig. I think that's where the cgc is headed next. |
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 past performance is no guarantee of future actions.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 I would like to see A) total submissions B) broken down by tier i.e. vintage, modern, comic/magazine, signature event, reholder etc. etc. I would expect a decrease in older vintages of comics....even modern to an extent (would imagine comics at a stable or decreasing print runs industry wide) - you have variant flippers and speculators (which I'm sure is on the down swing with under performing tv/movie offerings) In my mind this was always going to be a shrinking business. When were what we call comics popular....how many are in the wild...OG collectors are fine with a raw book i.e. I don't need a graded .5 to 4.0 of choose your grail - AF 15 say...I'll happily pay "less" for raw (lol...like I have $$ for even those grades!!) |
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I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers). Splotches is gettin old! |
Nuffsaid111 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| uh boy. Ok, let's try this one... lol "And from the ashes shall ....." Frig, I can't even type it. My fingers just can't do it |
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| Ok so this explains why all the CGC books I sent in have been bent and man handled, I knew there was no way a stack of 20 books all had the same bend in the same spot and still got 9.8s. So in the end sticking with CBCS, cause CGC is burning to the ground and I dont see a way out. But of course all the resellers at cons will claim nothing is wrong so they can sell those fake key books influencers claim are worth every penny. |
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 Apparently, I am easily annoyed.
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| It’s almost always the hardworking and competent employees that suffer in situations like these. | ||
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I'm waiting.... (tapping fingers). Splotches is gettin old! |
Nuffsaid111 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Rbolton Bingo! |
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Apparently, I am easily annoyed.
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Rbolton private msg quote post Address this user | |
| CGC will never go away as long as people that care more about their profit and less about a quality product keep using CGC for selling purposes and oblivious buyers keep purchasing these inferior products. I truly believe a lot of buyers have no idea of anything going on with CGC. | ||
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I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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GAC private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 Incompetent management don't recognize productive individuals...they recognize social relationships. |
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I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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GAC private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Rbolton I agree with you that alot of buyers don't know what's happening at CGC but I can't imagine that CGC can continue like this indefinitely without the buying market eventually being significantly impacted. If the buying market is eventually impacted then the CGC loyalists will have to address it and do something about....possibly move business to CBCS or PSA. There's no doubt CGCs product is inferior...by a large margin in my opinion. This can not be sustained without impact. Eventually the word will spread, maybe to the point of no return, unless CGC makes radical changes....and the CGC loyalists will have no choice but to change. |
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I've spent years perfecting my brand of assholery.
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| I do think that the people who are more interested in graded books will eventually make their way to one of the grading company's chat boards. Hopefully, sooner rather than later. I consider myself fairly in the know, and I had at least one banana book. I can't imagine having thirty or so. I'd have a come-a-part. |
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 It gets old smelling it everytime I go outside my door.
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson This is the place to be. Friends in the right places are a great asset. Knowing artists, writers, graders, pressers, store owners, many dealers and a stray hippie help a lot. |
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 I had no way of knowing that 9.8 graded copies signed by Adam Hughes weren't what you were looking for.
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| Given all of this news about CGC I feel very fortunate to have gotten the grades I did on the four books I sent in for the Lynda Carter signing. I had a couple questions for CGC when I was at Baltimore Comic Con and I have to say that the people they had in the booth that day were great. Too bad things appear to have gone very wrong back at headquarters. |
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It gets old smelling it everytime I go outside my door.
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Nearmint67 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by sborock_ComicLink Got this email yesterday as many of us did for the Doug Moench signing. At the bottom, it says to contact Matt Edwards for more information. So I did. Here is what I got back;  |
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as well as Matt Edwards. Not sure who else is waiting for the other shoe to drop over there....................