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CGC & CSG Grading Now Available on COMC!

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COMC is excited to announce our partnership with CGC Trading Cards (Certified Guaranty Company) & CSG (Certified Sports Guaranty)! With over 30 million raw cards available in our marketplace, COMC is ready to provide an effortless grading experience for you to Buy, Sell, and now Grade your Marvel, Sports, Star Wars, and TCG trading cards. We’re thrilled to offer a smooth and seamless grading process with our trusted partners CGC and CSG.

We’re excited for our collectors to get started—which you can do today by submitting your cards to CGC & CSG! The COMC Grading Team is excited to provide an incredible service to our customers and help add more graded cards to your collection and to the COMC Marketplace. As part of one of the world’s largest collectibles companies, CGC & CSG bring an amazing track record of reliability and trusted service.

With more than 10 million collectibles certified since 2000, CGC is the world’s largest grading service for comic books, magazines, concert posters, and more. In 2020 CCG brought the same expertise that revolutionized comic book collecting to the world of trading cards and launched CGC Trading Cards.

In August of 2022, CGC Trading Cards announced that Marvel cards were now eligible for grading. Who better to grade your Marvel cards than the world’s most trusted comic book grader? They currently offer the hobby’s best service for comics and now bring their expertise, state-of-the-art holder, and matching iconic label to CGC Trading Cards for your favorite Marvel Cards.

CGC Trading Cards is devoted to the expert grading of the most popular trading card games, including Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, and Yu-Gi-Oh! They’re well known for bringing their world-class expertise to grading some of the rarest and most obscure trading cards, including the legendary Pokemon-Magic Blastoise test prints.

In addition to Marvel and TCG’s, CGC Trading Cards now offer their services to Star Wars cards. Whether you have a 1977 Luke Skywalker to the latest Star Wars sets from Topps Chrome Galaxy or Topps Chrome Sapphire, CGC Trading Cards has you covered.

CSG will provide our sports collectors with a trusted grading service for their sports trading cards including Football, Basketball, and Baseball! Last year CSG revealed their brand new label and updated grading scale to align with the sports card collecting market. CSG grades some of your favorite sports cards including the Colson Montgomery 1st Bowman Chrome Superfractor Autograph that graded Gem Mint 10.

Earlier this month, CSG changed the game by grading a miscut 1952 Topps Jackie Robinson with a label indicating a partial Mickey Mantle card. This further illustrates CSG’s commitment to providing grading services for some of the rarest and most unique sports cards in the hobby.

CSG offers the sports card market a vastly superior product: a card-enhancing label combined with CSG’s best-in-class protective holder, fast and accurate grading, affordable prices, and more.

With CGC & CSG, each card submission will be put through their trusted eight-step certification process and then be graded using their standard 10-point grading scale. Cards graded by CGC & CSG are all encapsulated with an incredible holder for both card display and protection, include a bold yet refined label, and are backed by industry-leading CSG and CGC guarantees.

And don’t forget! Through our partnership with Upper Deck e-Pack, you can immediately Buy, Rip and Submit your pack-fresh e-Pack pulls via our grading submission portal! e-Pack features the most popular Marvel brands like Metal Universe, Unbound, and Black Diamond, as well as exclusive hockey card brands including Upper Deck Series 1 and 2, SPx, SP Game Used, and Ultimate Collection! (Please note that Upper Deck e-Pack Cards must first be transferred to COMC before they can be submitted for grading. If the item has a stock image, it must first be upgraded through our Elite process before it can be submitted for grading.) 

We hope you are as excited as we are about this groundbreaking evolution of the COMC service. For more information regarding our grading services, please see our FAQ page.

Learn how to submit your cards today by visiting our Tutorial Page or click here to watch an instructional video. COMC Grading Tutorial

For other questions or general information, please visit our Support page, or contact our friendly Customer Service team by emailing staff@comc.com or clicking the red Support button on the bottom-right corner of any COMC.com page.

Follow us on social media @checkoutmycards and the official COMC Blog for the latest updates!

COMC Now Accepting HGA Graded Cards

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COMC is thrilled to announce that we now accept all HGA (Hybrid Grading Company) graded cards, except PC slabs. HGA slabs are top-of-the-line quality and are known for their color-coordinated labels with team colors, card match, and custom label options. In addition, HGA aims to create the most aesthetically pleasing cards in the hobby!

HGA now joins a growing list of grading card companies accepted by COMC. Here is the up-to-date list of supported grading companies:

PSA – Professional Sports Authenticator

Shop for PSA cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=PSA,aGraded,rPSA,i100

SGC – Sportscard Guaranty

Shop for SGC cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=SGC,aGraded,rSGC,i100

BGS – Beckett Grading Services (including BVG and BCCG cards)

Shop for BGS cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=BGS,aGraded,rBGS,i100

HGA – Hybrid Grading Approach (no PC Slabs)

Shop for HGA cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=HGA,aGraded,rHGA,i100

CSG – Certified Sports Guaranty

Shop for CSG cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=CSG,aGraded,rCSG,i100

CGC – Certified Guaranty Company

Shop for CGC cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=CGC,aGraded,rCGC_Gaming,i100

KSA – KSA Certification

Shop for KSA cards: https://www.comc.com/Cards,sh,=KSA,aGraded,rKSA,i100

COMC Consignment Services

Are you looking to sell your graded cards? When you consign with COMC, our team fully prepares and lists your cards on the COMC Marketplace and our eBay Store. Once sold, our team handles all of the shipping and fulfillment. To learn more about our consignment services, visit our COMC Selling page.

COMC Auctions on eBay

This service is ideal for sellers who wish to send their graded cards directly to the COMC eBay Store as a 7-day, $0.99 no-reserve auction. COMC Auctions on eBay are for cards valued at more than $50 and put your investment-grade trading cards in front of collectors and bidders worldwide. A complete list of the seller advantages to COMC Auctions on eBay, including the Commission structure, can be found on the Auctions Page.

Check Out Your Grades! – May BGS Grading Returns

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Welcome back to ‘Check Out Your Grades!”, our monthly BGS submissions results blog where we show you our favorite cards that have returned from BGS in the past month. In April, we saw the first results from our new 3-week grading service, our fastest grading option that we’ve ever offered.

Did you know that you can submit any item in your inventory manager via the actions menu to BGS for grading or to COMC for our weekly Condition Review? Not only will your cards be graded within three or six weeks, but they’ll have a chance to be showcased in our monthly blog series!

Here are some of our favorite returns this month:

Check Out Your Grades! – April BGS Grading Returns

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The winds of change are blowing! Last month, we published out 2018 Spring BGS Service Update which included the news that we’re rolling out a new 3 week expedited service. The early results are in, and this service is quite popular among COMC users!

Did you know that you can submit any item in your inventory manager via the actions menu to BGS for grading or to COMC for our weekly Condition Review? Not only will your cards be graded within three or six weeks, but they’ll have a chance to be showcased in our monthly blog series!

Without further ado, our favorite BGS returns for the month of April:

BGS Grading Changes and Expedited Services Update

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Hello COMC Nation!

Each Spring we announce updates and changes to the Beckett Grading Services offered through COMC. This year, we are bringing to you our fastest BGS turn-around time ever with our new 3-Week service. Additionally, we are making changes to our current 6-Week service level so we can continue to meet our customer’s expectations of accurate and guaranteed time frames.

Please note that regardless of service level chosen, all items submitted for grading through COMC are subject to the 1% declared value fee for insurance purposes. Items can be submitted for grading via the actions tab of the item that you want to submit to grading within your COMC inventory manager.

What’s Changing on April 25th, 2018:

New 3-Week Expedited BGS Service Level Added!

You asked and we listened! We all know that players can get hot in an instant and market value can change in the blink of an eye. Starting this week, COMC Members seeking grading services for their time-sensitive items can submit their items to our new 3-Week expedited BGS Service, our fastest turnaround time ever. We’re offering the 3-Week service at $40 per item, with autographed cards an additional $2 and oversized cards an additional $8.

Changes to our current 6-Week Service

In accordance with a BGS rate increase in 2018, COMC is also adjusting rates to reflect those changes. The base rate for our 6-Week service is now $21, with add-ons of $2 for autographs and $8 per oversized item. The guaranteed time frame for this service will remain unchanged.

The cut-off time to submit items under the old rate is April 24th, 2018 at 11:59pm.

Check Out Your Grades! – March BGS Grading Returns

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All we can say is “WOW!” We are seeing a record amount of BGS Submissions return on a monthly basis. 2017-18 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey remains an overwhelming favorite,  as this months returns saw tons of gem mint Young Guns. With so many great cards to choose from, we’ve picked out the cream of the crop to showcase in this months’s edition of Check Out Your Grades!

Did you know that you can submit any item in your inventory manager via the actions menu to BGS for grading or to COMC for our weekly Condition Review? Not only will your cards be graded within six weeks, but they’ll have a chance to be showcased in our monthly blog series!

Check Out Your Grades! – February BGS Grading Returns

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The calendar has turned yet again which means it’s time for a fresh installment of Check Out Your Grades! In this monthly series, we share our favorite items that have been submitted by members of the COMC Nation to BGS Grading via their COMC account . February was one of the busiest months that we’ve ever seen for grading returns! Last month, owners of items from the recently released Upper Deck ePack sets such as 2017 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions and 2017-18 Upper Deck Series 1 Hockey sets saw their grading submissions returned in abundance.

Did you know that you can submit any item in your inventory manager via the actions menu to BGS for grading or to COMC for our weekly Condition Review? Not only will your cards be graded within six weeks, but they’ll have a chance to be showcased in our monthly blog series!

Check Out Your Grades! – January BGS Grading Returns

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Hello COMC Nation!

February is here which means it’s time for another installment of Check Out Your Grades! In this series, we showcase our favorite items that have been submitted to BGS Grading via COMC and have just recently returned. Last month, we said that we would limit each installment to our ten favorite grading returns. However, we’ve decided that sharing just 10 cards a month is a little too restricting for our taste. We’ll be sharing ALL of our favorites, which means 17 grading returns made the list this month!

Did you know that you can submit any item in your inventory manager via the actions menu to BGS for grading or to COMC for our weekly Condition Review? Not only will your cards be graded within six weeks, but they’ll have a chance to be showcased in our monthly blog series!  Without further ado:

January 2018 Grading Returns:

That’s all for this month! Check out previous installments of this blog series here:

December 2017

Check Out Your Grades! – December BGS Grading Returns

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Hello COMC Nation!

It’s the start of a new year which means new changes are coming to the COMC Blog! We’re pleased to announce the debut of our new blog series, “Check Out Your Grades!” . In this series, we’ll look at our ten favorite grading returns from the previous month that were submitted to BGS through COMC.

Did you know that you can submit any item in your inventory manager via the actions menu to BGS for grading or to COMC for our weekly Condition Review?

December 2017 Grading Returns: