When the computer goes down.

My internet access and I have been at odds and on the one day off I do have I realized I did not put my phone on the charger and now have to wait till it is fully recharged before I can call my internet access provider to help me resolve the issue. Since then I have not been able to properly write a journal or answer anyone else. I am overjoyed that so mane y people are discussing this great hobby.

What sucks about it though is that everyone is discussing how LONG CGC is taking grading books this time of year. Last year I sent in my books around October and they went one day over the allotted time that they said it would take. I think I might wait till then again before I ship my books out. I do have one invoice out. This invoice only has three books out. I have them to CGC back in June during Philadelphia Wizard World for them to take to SDCC for some signatures.

All three of course are from the New Mutants series; let's face it who didn't see that one coming. One is an issue they had graded and I feel that they were wrong. I hope that when it comes back I will get a 9.8. The other two are from my copies that I bought when they first came off the shelf. I expect a 9.4...and of course they are in that dreaded status of invoice received.

Many journals clamored for CGC to hire new graders. If they do I will apply and move there if I have too. I can still collect CGC graded comic books but under different rules. For instance I would have to get permission to buy any books....I cannot sell books though. I have so much writing to do I will get into that.

I am OK with how many graders they do have and it is not because I am patient. I hate that I am reading that it is taking so long for books to be turned around that it is stopping me from sending my own in. I am OK with it because I know that they are looking at my New Mutants #58 just as diligently as they are looking over that Amazing Spider-Man #1, although it might not be Paul who is looking at it.

I will continue with my interview again but fear i will just be writing it in Journal form and how I found out about it and maybe just maybe if I feel I can do it justice I will transcribe it when I have time, until then I'll just write. When I talked to CGC and they were trained to grade books, yes they were trained after they were evaluated for the love and knowledge of these books, and yes Love is a proper word there. They are fans just like us.

They weren't paid. They worked in different areas of CGC and on their own time decided hey I want to grade a few comic books. Maybe CGC is slowed down because they ca't find anyone that is willing to be trained for free. At my job I train the majority of the new servers. They don't get tips but during their training period they get a larger hourly rate. If I am busy while I am training them I don't mind but if I have three tables getting paid that $2.83 an hour sucks.

Do I want CGC to update their site more often on turnaround time, yes I would and as much as I feel that everyone I have ever talked to there was anything but polite I would love if the turnaround time was posted on the message boards rather than the same page day in day out saying anything but the information they have posted which is the time amount and that they are on schedule when they are clearly not. I feel the same way from a certain website I buy comic books from still says an order is pending and you already have had the comic books in hand for two weeks.

I can go on and on....and will but CGC is an addiction for us, just as encompassing as reading comic books themselves and in a few months from now there will be no journals on how late they are but many many journals on what books everyone is getting back. I look forward to those as I look forward to getting my three measly comic books but they are my three measly comic books.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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