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When i think of Semra and her telephone/email manners i usually think of a pitbull chewing a wasp, god knows how she got into customer services

No museum wanted this?

Turnaround times Are about 6 weeks As they ship to The USA for grading. PCGS has an office in Paris where they do grading weeks, which starts tomorrow

oh geezus, have fun with that

Not mine, but thought it was so well struck I had to add it here

Now that's dedication, or obsession, depending if you're a male or female saying it

I thought it was people from LC that did the grading for CGS?

Yes please,. 2 sugars, 1 milk ta...

Not sure who does the grading Rob, but he said he'd sent 19 in for grading on the old format, so I'd have to assume not...

I was speaking to the eBay seller goldgiinea who slabs most of his stuff with CGS, he was telling me that he has been given exemption from the £499 fee and is an elite member, he has had fewer coins slabbed than Bill, so I've no idea how CGS are picking and choosing who is exempt and who's not.

Totally agree with this point Paul, but then again, Semra seems quite the hard head and her stubbornness could swing things into the abyss. I don't think this has finished yet, not for a while at least. If they don't receive many submissions due to the new price/submission model then there could be various variants of it...

Pete, the conversation was between various people on a platform that has 1 billion members, so allowing you to read it would make that 1 billion and 1 As Paulus has also been quoting Bill in previous posts (without any moaning from you) i don't see any problems, the reason i sent a screenshot was that i was using my phone and couldn't copy and paste, you don't see Bills name anywhere in the screenshot... Anyway, back to the £499 charge. The downside i can see is that £499 is basically a coin purchase, only those who might slab regularly and with high quantity might use it, but for others who simply want to buy coins i think they might shy away from it as they see it as a coin purchase instead, Bill has also stated that he isn't going to be sending anymore to CGS right now until they resolve all the issues, and Bill is CGS man through and through, he still likes how they grade but not the issues right now...

Good man, I was only offering more info on the new CGS submission mess, nothing more... Be calm ?

Oh an PS, that was Bill Pugsley who wrote that, someone who has slabbed 4000 coins with CGS and was sharing HIS info, hope that's ok with you boss. Also this is a forum of opinions and not Pete' forum...

Not getting your comment at all Pete, I thought this was a TPG discussion about TPGs, if you don't want to comment with something constructive instead of negativity towards my post then feel free to jump out of the discussion, and for the record I have used them twice. Chill......

This was Bill' comment

Apparently Bill Pugsley is NOT exempt from the wrath of Semra, he has slabbed 4000 coins with CGS and has just mentioned he has to pay the fee. Also another problem has arisen when you have to submit to an agent, you post to the agent and the agent posts to CGS and again in reverse, so that will incur 4x postal charges, it's going well already

Thought i'd pop this in here

MS63 11 leaves

Would hate to have had a pocket full of those buggers, would be walking around in circles

Not if you ask the 60 odd million who buy slabbed coins, and only slabbed coins

He was a legend in and out of the ring. 2016 has certainly been the year for the celebrities passing......

I'd agree with that, people seem to be going for higher grades these days leaving the field open for Scott to mop up

No contest

Yes, the process is fairly quick, once you see your grades on the PCGS website you'll have your coins back within 7-10 days. I'm sending 3 more into Paris for the grading week from the 13th-17th Jume, I'll probably see them back by the end of June, turnaround is much quicker than CGS or NGC.