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Here is another questionable CGC 9.8 Mark Jewelers for sale on ebay that is definitely not a 9.8 https://www.ebay.com/itm/285617050488

CGC's #1 priority should have ALWAYS been to protect the integrity of their label. This means having a fraud department to continually analyze their own processes for holes along with staying on top of techniques for detecting fraud at the book level. The fact they have overlooked the reholder process as a weak point indicates either apathy or ineptitude. Either way you slice it, that's bad -- real bad.

You do realize that StickyGoose is to comics what flat-earthers are to science.

There is a certain level of failure that is acceptable. For instance, I can accept that CGC might miss a married cover a small fraction of the time. Or that a book has had a chemical bath for cleaning. The techniques they use to detect stuff like that is not going to be 100%, but it should be high enough that the collecting community still finds trust in their authentication and certification process. What IS unacceptable is slabbing a book with a blue label that is missing a value stamp OR A WHOLE PAGE because they simply took the word of the submitter and performed NO evaluation of the book before re-slabbing it. This isn't just a collector disagreeing with a grader's grade; this is CGC's certification seal being 100% compromised.

Think of the times you saw a CGC 9.8 book and thought it was a "gift grade" and should have been graded a 9.2 to 9.4. This fraud calls into question those "gift grades". Maybe it was never a gift grade; maybe it was a different book in a 9.8 case. 🤔

This scenario is considerably different than a missing value stamp which makes a book incomplete. Also, this scenario is considerably different than what the perceived fraud originally discussed in this thread is which involves knowingly selling a comic that has been re-holdered in the wrong case. I am not a conservator so I don't really have an opinion on that. However, I imagine there are many who think this is fraudulent while there are others that feel cleaning is okay. Once again, a completely different animal than swapping books in different cases.

If a seller knowingly misrepresents what they are selling that is fraud. It does not matter that the case has a blue label. If the seller knows that the book is mislabeled and does not divulge that the book is labeled incorrectly because of the missing value stamp they are misrepresenting what they are trying to sell which is fraud.

Mine was delivered to CGC on 4/25 and it is yet to be officially received so yeah they are probably overloaded again.

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It seemed unopened, but I guess it's not that hard to re shrink wrap something.

I bought a DC 4-pack from Walmart this morning. When I got it home and opened it, there were 3 DC books and 1 Marvel book inside??? It was a Warhammer 40,000 Marvel book.

Anyone know of and can share the best local LCS or Flea Markets in the Tampa Bay area for comic book dollar bins?