seanlinc

Wow what an interesting conversation, I read about halfway through but it seems to be the same back and forth. As someone who buys and sells on ebay fairly frequently its easy to put myself in both the buyers and sellers situation. As the buyer because I didn't inspect the book and am out of the window for a return would just take the $100 sell the book and move on without repeating that mistake again. As the seller its even easier since I misrepresented(accidently I hope) the book i'd let the buyer send the book back for a full refund but not the grading fees.

I'm actually waiting for grades right now it's very suspenseful

My last few submissions took about 4 or 5 business days from package delivery to get into the system, Then about 20 days total from received to shipped. They have always charged my cc when the status went to scheduled for grading. I've had a few that I submitted under modern that graded high enough to put the value in the standard tier but they have never changed the tier.

I've been pressing myself about 6 months now, I've found it's very good at getting rid of the finger bends and creasing and such. The spine tics give me more trouble but I'm getting better at it. I press everything before I  send it in I've also noticed after a press I may see flaws I missed initially.

I don't think you can ever a assume a 9.8 I've sent in books that I thought were perfect that came back 9.4 and others that I was hoping for 9.6 come back 9.8

I was forced to go back and read all 16 pages to catch up.

On 2/24/2023 at 4:30 PM, the blob said:

3/4 of the folks on this board were born between 1970 and 1974 though.... or so it seems

Nailed me on the low end

Yeah my comics sat in my non climate controlled attic for almost 20 years. Bear in mind I thought them basically having little to no value at the time. I was worried when I started going through them that I had done some long-term damage by keeping them up there but they seemed to have come out unscathed. I can't see any problems that weren't already there and out of the 50 or so that have been graded there has been alot in the 9.4 to 9.8 range. 

I collected comics as a kid in the 80s then again in the early to mid 90s. My girlfriend at the time who became my wife who became my ex wife was into coins and I started collecting those for a good 15 years. Sadly I was destitute around 2000 and sold the comics I had that were real valuable at the time so bye bye hulk 180 and 181 as well as some nice silver age spiderman and Byrne x-men. Then my collection sat in the attic for the next 20 years. Sometime in 2021 I heard a trailer for the venom carnage movie and thought hey I think I have those comics which led me to dig into my collection and start looking at values on ebay. Now I didn't realize I was looking at prices in the peak of a Bull market I just thought man I've gotten so old my 80s and 90s comics are actually valuable now! I saw things needed to be graded to get value and I was familiar with the process from my coin days. When I came to cgc I actually already had an account from ngc. Didn't notice the chat boards til a few months later but have prused them ever since. Have picked up some valuable knowledge along the way.

On 2/13/2023 at 9:00 AM, F For Fake said:

I'm glad it finally worked out, but how annoying is that? The thing that killed me with that last shipment is that they made the second attempt on Friday, so you'd think the third would be Saturday, right? So I think, well, fine, I'll sit by the door all day Saturday, but at least I'll get it. So, Saturday comes, and I get a message saying that the third attempt will be on MONDAY, completely bypassing Saturday and Sunday. And the kicker is, I had another FedEx package delivered to me ON SATURDAY. So they were already coming to my house. What a pain it all is. Oh well. 

Yeah 2 shipments ago the first attempt was Friday when I was at work, The tracking said they would redeliver Monday. I get home Saturday there is a note on the door so that's the second attempt, the tracking again says redeliver Monday. Then they show up Sunday morning luckily my wife was home.

On 2/10/2023 at 12:04 AM, pushperaj65 said:

I can't figure out the trick.  I either have a reflection of my camera, a reflection of my light fixture/ceiling fan, or it looks like it was shot in a cave.  How do ya'll do it?.......

I was right there with you, saw this thread and tried basically the easiest tips and saw a big difference on the first try. Just simply putting white poster board on the coffee table turning on the overhead light zooming in slightly and taking a pic at an angle.

Man glad I stumbled across this post. I was struggling to take pics of slabs without getting horrible glare. Just the simple act of using full light a white background and an elevated angle made a huge difference. 

I basically now just leave work super early on delivery days. It's very inconvenient but I don't want to go through the hassle of having a package go back to cgc. I'm with what most are saying it's a horrible policy for the customer.

On 2/1/2023 at 11:01 PM, Ken Aldred said:

Damn what a mismatch 

Also this apparently was always designated as newsstand because the newsstand editions lacked the fleer trading cards.

Anyway so I sold both of these for around $600 each so I'm guessing that's the value. Was planning on keeping 1 but the price got my attention and there are other things I want to get.

On 1/27/2023 at 10:21 PM, Juno Beach said:

*than

Haha but it's good to see just like the coin forums the Grammer police are on the job 👍

You guys can be more snarky then the coin guys, and I thought that was impossible.

I guess those are low dollar books so charging slightly more for shipping matters? Idk kind of confusing. 

I've always considered H181 as wolverines first full appearance and thus the more desirable book. But I will say with H180 for a 1 pane cameo atleast it's a proper introduction.

On 1/9/2023 at 2:11 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

Cgc only just started labeling "Newsstands of more editions," so while I doubt yours is the only one, you could go through the sales data to find more that aren't with the current cgc label and notation.

Used to, the Newsstand notation from cgc was very minimal,.compared to what they're supposedly rolling out now.

Give it time.

 

Yeah I get it I'm not thinking I have some super rare thing here just couldn't find a sale of the same comic. I not sure but I think these were always designated as deluxe newsstand as I was able to chose that when submitting.

I just checked the census there was only 1 deluxe edition newsstand listed in 9.8 so there probably isn't any sale data to see. Thanks for your help anyway.

What the.... I guess umm id!ot is not allowed