What the #*&7 do you mean it isn't a 9.8?

I don't stress about the grades I get as much as if i will even get the package properly. I have bid on numerous auction sites and have stressed more on hoping to get that book I really want. Currently there is a comic i want to get but i feel the asking price is a bit to high and I sent my best offer. i was never n=answered and yet i am not stressing about it. If I get it, I will get it.

My concern over a grade change is what do they look for and what causes one grader to change a book from a 9.6 to a 9.4 or a 9.2 to a 9.4. At work as a server i am not allowed to cut cakes for customers. the reasoning is I will cut an extra large piece to help increase my tip, but on other days when I am a cashier or a manager I am allowed to cut slices for others. One would think if they are trusting me with the keys to the establishment that I would be able to cut a piece of cake in the proper quantity whether I was a server or cashier.

I believe grading should be uniform, after all a defect is a defect. i talked to two graders during Wizard World and with unfortunate distaste I have been unable to properly get what i filmed transcribed but either way they did mention other than their secret sauce they do have a consensus. If two feel that the book should be a 9.6 then it will achieve that grade but if the two over ride with a lower grade, then of course a 9.4 is what is would be, regardless of any previous grading.

But what about PGX? Shouldn't something they mark as perfection be perfect over at CGC? The graders also stated they don't know how they grade so they cannot fathom why a book for them in a 9.9 would become a book for CGC a 9.8.Overstreet's has a guide that mimics the numeric grading scale used by CGC. I mention that I have some books out getting a signature series and although they might go down to a 9.6 I can still use the 9.8 number since it does not go into a limbo (to my knowledge).

One of the books i did send out to get signed by Bob Mcleod was a copy of New Mutants issue #5. this was originally grade by PGX as a 9.9....subsequently the little bit of information on this book was that it was the only book graded on the day Michael Jackson died. I know...strange tidbit....damn useless information. Will whoever is grading that see that it should be better than a 9.8 again. Will Bob Mcleod's signature be placed on the only copy of a previous PGX 9.9 become a CGC 9.9. Will the grader be kind, strict or have an afterglow from a really good night. I don't know, but either way although I do care..... I am not stressing. I'll save that for working a shift overstaffed and I only get sat with three tables.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb