Rich, actually, I've had MANY dealings with sellers on here and never received a CGC with that material at the bottom going all the way across. That is what through me off. You can see where it bubbles up under the left-hand corner by the post, which then has this large buildup of what appears to be glue right next to it, and then continues on from there.
Now you calling me a pain in the azz, screwhead, and all the other professional names just shows how off-the-wall you can get, but that's okay. Your feelings are hurt, so you want to lash out - go ahead.
And THAT book is not coming back a CGC SS 9.8, but you should be overjoyed with the 9.6 it should receive as with the two stress lines along the spine and the large rub across the bottom corner. This is where it didn't match your "flawless" description, and made me think I was looking at two different books.
Between that provided description and the bonding material across the bottom, this just didn't look right.
And after two years buying or submitting books resulting in hundreds of CGC books, not one of those cases ever arrived with that material across the bottom. Not a smudge, not the tiniest of buildup of plastic that gives the appearance of glue - a stream that starts to the far left in a large buildup, and continues on across.
If this is something new for CGC, then the perception built led to the blowup, and this is the ONLY TIME I have ever run into this.