Or Thank you CGC

This weekend is filled with conventions. I believe there are three going on. The first one I plan on attending is in March...and so is the second one. I never did back to back conventions before and I can only imagine what it takes to work for CGC and do this day after day. On the weekends they are at the various conventions throughout the nation and during the week they are at the CGC offices going about their jobs. To think, that is a seven day a week job.

How many of us work that much? I have one last invoice that is verified. I am patiently waiting for it to change into the next category. CGC will be accepting thousands of new books, possibly over a thousand invoices itself. The past month there have been no complaints about CGC and how long they have been taking. Forty days will no longer be forty days.

I'm hoping that this is the year they might higher another grader or two. After researching a bit about the beginnings of CGC I realize it was never about the grade, but about the integrity of the industry. People will always try to make money off of comic books and there are those that make money off comic books not caring about the purchaser. In essence ripping off a collector. Steve Borock wanted to make sure that the integrity of CGC meant something, a way to protect the buyer.

CGC has now been around for 14 years. In essence I am relatively a newcomer, collecting for less than half that time, I didn't know the history of the company when I first started. Now knowing some of it, I can respect it a bit more. I do look for 9.8's. This is because they are most likely the best possible book available. And yet I also collect .5's. I like having the books encapsulated. And after five years now, I'm ready to put my money where my mouth is.

Thanks for reading

Tnerb

Ps. Be patient with the graders, they want to make sure they get it right

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