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Just now, lizards2 said:

Exactly.  I got a Dinosaur SSWS PGX 9.4 for about 35% of what it would have cost in a CGC label/slab.  I cracked it out, and it's a 9.4.

:whatthe:

I'M BUYING PGX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Depends on the book.  I have picked up a few midgrade PGX books and cracked them out and submitted them to CGC.  Only once have I received a lower grade with CGC on the resubmit.  In a couple of cases the books have come back much higher.  It depends on the time period that the book was graded.  There is a specific time period that PGX books were very strictly graded. 

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2 minutes ago, kav said:
2 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

Exactly.  I got a Dinosaur SSWS PGX 9.4 for about 35% of what it would have cost in a CGC label/slab.  I cracked it out, and it's a 9.4.

:whatthe:

I'M BUYING PGX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not necessarily endorsing them.  You still need to do your due diligence with front and back scans, etc.

And how I view that purchase is it was probably FMV, rather than CGC-encased pie-in-the-sky value.

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2 minutes ago, Buzzetta said:

Depends on the book.  I have picked up a few midgrade PGX books and cracked them out and submitted them to CGC.  Only once have I received a lower grade with CGC on the resubmit.  In a couple of cases the books have come back much higher.  It depends on the time period that the book was graded.  There is a specific time period that PGX books were very strictly graded. 

They must have changed the garage lights at some point.

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I once bought a PGX with a McFarlane sig.. I had a buyer that bought it from me later at double what I bought it for, but ended up returning because he thought the sig was fake, he wasnt aware of the fact that McFarlane had diff signatures. That was the only time I bought a PGX book

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25 minutes ago, kav said:

Does a PGX SS come back from CGC as 'name written on cover'?

I'm sure, if it's readable they might give the name, idk; I still have a first appearance of Transformers in an 8.5 case of death lol but no it isn't signed hahaha

I used to have a 4.0 IH 181 that had a "significant" piece missing, restored, along with the MVS missing; AHHH being a noob is no fun :kidaround:

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5 hours ago, kav said:

Money abhors a vacuum.  If PGX books were ok, people could make a ton of money by buying PGX and cracking/submitting to CGC.  That isnt happening.  The PGX just sit there.

There is a market for PGX books. Some dealers on the West Coast I know still use them to slab 1000's of books.

People do buy them. That's how they've managed to stay in business for the last 15 years.

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23 hours ago, JTLarsen said:

I've had them grade books at or stricter than the grades they were sold to me as.

It varies. I've also seen them looser.

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