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    ASM #252 CGC 9.8 Record Sale - something fishy going on? - Holder Tampering Incident confirmed by CGC

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    On 1/29/2024 at 7:53 AM, Sigur Ros said:

    Why all?

    I only see one screwing up horribly.

    And repeatedly.

    For years or shall I say decades, the unscrupulous have infiltrated many hobbies where money and markets form. Printing money is a federal offense and earns a minimum 10 yrs. However to recreate a card or item that’s popular is a mere trademark infringement. Perhaps a cease and desist is your punishment. So the baddies hit the hobbies. Years before there were grading companies there were counterfeits of a wide variety of things. Even they have tried to reprint the grading companies labels. So it likely makes more sense to instead surgically open the case the collectibles are inside and replace them with inferior copies. You may think that there is no way that any case can be opened, I think it’s possible. I’m familiar with a seller of a large gold bar he sold to a customer who then sold the same bar back years later, only it was drilled out and filled with lead and perfectly concealed like new. It was later X-rayed and the theft was realized. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. A complex but simple scheme. Perhaps all hobbyists are safe from here on out, but so are the schemers. I’m not trying to say it’s happening here and gonna happen there but I am saying don’t be so trusting. On a side note, the news alone hits the market/hobbies as well. To be perfectly clear, I’m not speaking about comic books in general, but all collective gradedable items. Yes that means those sealed video games that are now graded are all legit. People that graded them likely weren’t old enough to have first hand knowledge or seen multiple examples to even compare. I could go on and on and on about things I’ve heard and witnessed over the years as a collector of many things. Boo!

    USPS “Ground Advantage” What is the “advantage”?

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    On 1/18/2024 at 2:13 PM, Robot Man said:

    I asked at the post office and got a blank stare. First Class apparently now goes ground instead of air (slower) and tracking is slower and sketchy. I have received some VERY slow deliveries.

    I guess the “advantage” goes to the Post Office…

    If you collected stamps, you wouldn’t have such problems. 

    ASM #252 CGC 9.8 Record Sale - something fishy going on? - Holder Tampering Incident confirmed by CGC

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    On 1/26/2024 at 8:54 PM, Ccccccccccccc said:

    I've been following since mid-December and every day since.  My take is CGC slabs are comically (pun intended) easy to open and swap books.  At this point they are just plastic, and it is entirely up to the consumer if you believe the book inside is accurately represented by the label.  It's a complete disaster and in my opinion CGC is trying to keep the details as obfuscated as possible to protect their market share.  I'm not selling all my CGC slabs, but I will never use this company to grade books based on everything I know about their equipment and processes.  

    So it’s safe to paint all the graded collectibles markets and grading companies under suspicion? I hope prices drop like hell. 

    current turn around rates at CGC

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    On 9/7/2023 at 5:48 PM, Every Day A Story said:

    Just spoke to customer service on one of my extended magazine submissions and was told they are delayed due to lack of "parts." So after almost a year, CGC still seems plagued with issues of  "no parts" when it comes to magazine submissions. What is going on in Sarasota? Surely they can order enough slabs to keep their core business running?

    You will likely be better off. My mag just came back with excessive scuffs front and back. 🤬