PJSandwich

Ya, since the update to Windows Edge this week, I am unable to get past the very start where you select the type of grading you want. It keeps going back to the top of the page and saying "please select one" and highlights the signature submission. I was almost able to get to the point, after way too many tries, where I could enter payment and it would not allow me to.

It appears to be happening again. Something in the form is incompatible with the latest Windows update to Egde

Hope it works out for you. Curating a collection is time consuming. This is a drag on that time and effort. good luck.

You have before pics(also take pics of the box that it arrived in originally). You declared a value. Let insurance handle the rest (buy back). It looks like color breaks on the spine. Something a press will never fix. Your 8.5 is a 7.5 now. Sending back re-slab? Folks like us will just say IMPOSSIBLE! You have a 7.0~7.5 in an 8.5 holder? You go to sell or hang on your wall, which will just make you through up, will never = its potential. QQ, we only see the outside. A shock like that, did the interior get damaged?

The topic is about -NM~NM having color break, correct? Yes, they exist. Remember, we are not talking about Mint (9.9) to Gem mint (10). Those last two can't have color breaks anywhere (though apparently, they can have acetate???). The fact that a book starts at the imperfect 9.8 NM and down, with faint color breaks to ever-increasing defects that lower its grade should be normal. You are starting two grades down from perfect.

It's a learn to grade thing. If you buy the slab, you run into issues. Look at the book and get out a magnifier if you have it in hand, read notes, get extra photos if possible. All my CBCS crosses to CGC came out equal or better. No downgrades. Not one issue with a single 9.8 to 9.8...Most of the graders at CBCS were CGC graders years ago. Folks forget that.