My favorite topic sure does draw the battle lines!

Greatings and salutations fans,friends and foes! I see turn around times still rule the boards and harsh words sometimes flow. After reading the last half dozen journals it's really great to see some of the old foes are playing nice. I would like to touch on fact or fiction; Who said the company lost two graders? Last I heard they had Three to many! So they are up one,no wait six months ago they lost three,so how many is that? See how these excuses cause problems! Remember a few months ago when the company took friday's off during "the season"and closed down for conventions. I dispelled that rumor with fact and now it's all but forgotten and it's no longer one of the "excuses". Which bring out the big one again, I read through all the CGC paperwork I have as back as 2003 and not one word about longer waits during "the season". I know many consider this to be fact but if con season is eight months,as recently posted, it would be factored in the estimate times.Another one is a few months ago a big dog insisted that the CGC would not be at conventions till Spring yet there they were at the Long Beach CA comic-con over the Halloween weekend taking submissions. where else will they be before Spring? If they really are so backed up why are they out hussling up more work.(2nd rule of business:"There is no such thing as too much work"!) Not that I like to beat the same old dead horse(stop reading if I'm makin yah nuts)but I'm in this for the long haul. Remember I'm on a one year mission, sending in 30 value tier books ever month and a half.My latest took 91 business days, May 25th to October 12th,four and a half months. Yeah,I know sucks doesn't it! My quickest was 68 b days submitted back in April.Since this is the slowest tier I think a few of you are exaggerating when you say six months UNLESS your talking signature series which has no clearly defined time table. I've also done a few other tiers with the same result,way over. Even 2 fast track moderns,12 books and 17 books took 29 and 25 business days not bad but still not "on time"as posted. I am documenting all of this because I do plan to take action so when you do talk about your submissions Please,Please,Please try to remember to say which tier and exact dates from at least received to shipped. Graded to shipped helps too. I had one 30 value go from verified to graded,no scheduled, and my latest magazine submission spent less than three weeks received and over three weeks scheduled for grading.Different routes for different tiers I guess. So as much as paying all up front is illegal in most businesses and highly unethical in all, it's still only my second mission, the first being getting the published estimate times changed to a more realistic number. In closing do you thing we can get more than two of us to agree on a course of action as well as a united front in actually dealing with this common problem? Hey, I'm a glass is half full kind of guy and all this love in the last few journals could be a start! I have spoken...'nuff said...and commence with the insults..Mcf

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