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I might be tempted to pick this up. Sounds interesting.

Yep.

You should punch yourself in the face for saying 'freaking'. You're English.

Chew? Walking dead? Bazzzzzzzzzzzzzinga One of the funniest, most uneducated posts to appear on the boards.

I wonder if my BA book that's there will get graded before Christmas

Doodie Time! Bandits!

Absolute pleasure to deal with. Cheers for the book Brian, top class service. (thumbs u

I'll have to do a bit of digging later. The last order I placed from an untried and untested source was a right balls up. Amazing Fantasy had the Batman #13 variants on their site for cover so I ordered three, I received three of the die-cut covers which were virtually bent in half. They won't be getting my business again.

Similar here. 5 x Hawkeye #1, 6 x Hawkeye #2 all for cover price. Batman 13 Lipstick Joker Variant - £1.99!!! Batman 13 Die-cut cover £1.99+£1.20 postage. Great deals are about, effort and research required. Nice pickups. Presuming you're from the UK, were they store pickups or online?

Really? There are NO companies in business offering all 3? Not sure I agree with you there. McDonalds. Play.com The Book Depository There are two without putting too much thought into it. They hit all three factors on a consistent basis. Play.com's main product since day one has been the sale of DVDs, dodging tax loop holes and bilking the UK treasury out of over 100m pounds/yr. DVD sales are dwindling and the company has been sold. The outlook isn't bright in those regards. I can't imagine you buy clothing from this Japanese based co., I think I rather run to Target for underwear than having it ship from play.com They offer a quality product, they're cheaper than a large percentage of other retailers and they have a good turnaround time. Those were the parameters, they meet them. Anything outside of that is of no relevance to this particular conversation. They're still in business. They've just been bought out by Rakuten. That's like saying Goodrich failed to remain in business because they were bought out by UTC.

The raw materials being books, barex and slabs. Do they manufacture the barex and slab shells? I think our opinions on manufacturing differ. And they obviously don't have takt times. Take away the word manufacturing, because that seems to be confusing the issue. They are still providing a service that is more complex than just sales or service separately. So do, say, CFP Comics and Classics Inc, one of those were endorsed in the post that endorsed the retailers. The original comparison wasn't with what they do within their business but how they go about it. Sorry, I thought the comparison was a discussion about the complexity of relative businesses. Customer service was the way I read it.

Really? There are NO companies in business offering all 3? Not sure I agree with you there. McDonalds. Play.com The Book Depository There are two without putting too much thought into it. They hit all three factors on a consistent basis. Play.com's main product since day one has been the sale of DVDs, dodging tax loop holes and bilking the UK treasury out of over 100m pounds/yr. DVD sales are dwindling and the company has been sold. The outlook isn't bright in those regards. I can't imagine you buy clothing from this Japanese based co., I think I rather run to Target for underwear than having it ship from play.com They offer a quality product, they're cheaper than a large percentage of other retailers and they have a good turnaround time. Those were the parameters, they meet them. Anything outside of that is of no relevance to this particular conversation.

The raw materials being books, barex and slabs. Do they manufacture the barex and slab shells? I think our opinions on manufacturing differ. And they obviously don't have takt times. Take away the word manufacturing, because that seems to be confusing the issue. They are still providing a service that is more complex than just sales or service separately. So do, say, CFP Comics and Classics Inc, one of those were endorsed in the post that endorsed the retailers. The original comparison wasn't with what they do within their business but how they go about it.

The raw materials being books, barex and slabs. Do they manufacture the barex and slab shells? I think our opinions on manufacturing differ. And they obviously don't have takt times. Of course I will.

So you want the same (or better) quality, at the same price with a faster turn around time? Or are you willing to pay more for faster and better? Just wondering what your acceptable metric is... My acceptable metric would be a grading service that runs their business like Richard Evans runs Bedrock City Comics, like Joe Grisolia runs CFP Comics, like Andrew Cretella runs GACollectibles, and like Dale Roberts runs Dale Roberts Comics. A business where everyone is treated professionally and with the same level of respect and courtesy. A business where if you have a problem they are working to an end where both the business and the customer are equally satisfied instead of admonished like a child in school or taunted with phrases such as, "Well, yeah, prove it." That would be my acceptable metric. There's a difference between being a good retailer (which your examples may be and do what they do very well) and being a good MANUFACTURER. CGC is a manufacturer of product (the product being a combination of grading, restoration check and slabbing). It is a far more complex process to manufacture than to retail (not saying its easy, just different and not necessarily as complex). I agree that customers should be treated with respect and courtesy, and I haven't had any experiences with CGC to the contrary. And I dont recall seeing CGC on the boards telling people to "prove it" (not sure what "it" is, do you have some specific beef?) CGC don't manufacture anything. They offer an opinion and guard against it being tampered with.

Comicana Direct?

Sure it did. Audio was better than HD-DVD, and more info could fit on a Blu Ray disc. The people chose and then the studios followed suit. Jim Wasn't Blu Ray backed by Sony from the start? HD (if I remember correctly, I could very well be wrong) was on a hiding to nothing from the very beginning so the market didn't have a choice to make. At least that's the way I remember it. I'll happily stand corrected.

Really? There are NO companies in business offering all 3? Not sure I agree with you there. McDonalds. Play.com The Book Depository There are two without putting too much thought into it. They hit all three factors on a consistent basis.

CGC is all about the $. It's a company. And they've increased costs and turnaround times and gained more customers than they've lost. VHS - Betamax. The market didn't dictate the quality wasn't there with Betamax, it was actually better than VHS. Hi-Def - Blu Ray. The market didn't choose Blu Ray for its superior quality. Do you believe (and this is a genuine question) that 100% of slabs that leave CGC's facility are absolutely perfect? No bugs in the slab? No folded corners? No wrong labels? Every grade is absolutely bang-on?

Really? There are NO companies in business offering all 3? Not sure I agree with you there. Indeed.

The initial outlay would be astronomical. Plus the desire for graded books over here is relatively miniscule so business would be sparse at best.

That's an interesting one. Is the question whether the cost of domestic shipping should be reduced from the cost of the international, so as to provide as much "freeness" to the int'l as the domestics get? I believe that was his point yep. I certainly wouldn't expect it, if sellers want to offer free domestic shipping into their prices that's completely up to them. I understand you can get domestic parcels picked up from your house over there (jammy bleeders) but have to physically go to the PO to ship international? Taking that into consideration I fully understand sellers not wanting to give discounts on international shipping. It would be a nice touch but something I wouldn't expect to see and wouldn't have my nose put out if it wasn't offered.

That's an interesting one.