Patience is a virtue.

I sent 14 books to CGC on 9-17-11, rather this is the date they were verified. Today, 11-26-11, I received the first 4 modern ones back. The dating on the invoice they returned with my order indicates that they are running about 7 weeks behind. I read the banter going back and forth about them being slow and I feel that they could increase their turn around time by hiring more employees as some suggest. However, I am older and patience is a virtue. I would prefer to have my books dealt with on a more personal level than to be rushed through a line as if I were checking out at Walm,art on Black Friday. Slow and steady is what gives you a higher grade on your books, the time to find the points that bring the grade up. I would not want CGC to go into mass production grading to compensate for my need to hold my comic that is now encased in a piece of plastic. These are the first 14 of nearly 2500 that I will eventually submit. My 10 year old grandson will have an awesome collection when he is older. The sad part is they will all be in plastic and he will not get to hold, feel and turn the pages of comic history.

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