Calamerica

Are you accusing me of being a shill now? You are insane. OK this is 2nd and last time I am going to do this: If you see who I was responding to: I was responding to *Not*Sure*. It was a separate issue and she handled her reply to me rather well. She and I have had a round or two, but I cannot recall her ever really getting out-of-line. Point is she may never subscribe to the CAL's Column, but she won't be crazy enough to do what I am riled up about. So go back to that post, and see who I was replying to. Many threads get posted and the poster cannot see other posts; thus not a straight line conversation. A Memento non-linear discussion as it were. CAL the movie fan

I guess some people think if your comics are slabbed you can't be a troll. OK let me try ONE MORE TIME: If you THREATEN others, you need to be kicked off. period. I maintain my position that the threat(s) have all stemmed from the anti-CGCers' stance from the eBay Chats of years past. PM them privately, exchange phone numbers, they will tell you. Don't take my word for it. CAL losing patience with those who cannot comprehend

you're not chasing or baiting here, right? you have not posted on all my recent Comics General Threads, have you? Aren't you a Stu Cathell anti-CGCer??? CAL asking easy Q's for now...

Let me cut and paste the segue from my post earlier: Now please state your side. I stated mine. CAL drawing the lines in the sand...

So did you get this PM out of the blue? If it is Harold Fuller, can you post a follow-up on everything that happened after the 2008 incident in which he tried to scam you for $4,000 (for a box that was supposed to contain Batman #1 but turned out to be empty) and you ended up getting your money back after alerting authorities? What else happened -- was he ever criminally charged? I still have not excluded my earlier intuitive thought of comicdonna's 1st post on my CAL's COLUMN thread... It ticked off a former ebay Chat Boardie who LOVE Stu Cathell and those of his ilk in a major way. Similar to lifers in prison form the clique to harrass the white collar elites who will be out in 6 months... CAL originally from eBay to CGC to

The longer answer: If you had taken the time to truly understand what has been, and WILL CONTINUE TO TRANSPIRE on this site until something is done, you would not have posted such a knee-jerk response. But maybe you are trying to understand. CAL who rarely gives free passes

If you threaten those that do, the answer is a YES, if that is your case. CAL who would be the Judge, Jury AND the fun part of Executioner

Unfortunately, it's impossible to weed through them all. If someone is persistent enough, there is absolutely no way you can prevent a-holes from registering and the moderators wouldn't even know to suspect until something like this happens (I'm a mod on another forum and have to deal with this all the time). Report 'em and let the mods do their work. If the Mods were really smart they wouldn't even ban people who are constantly banned and come back. Once the word is out let others just put them on their block list and let them think they have an audience when in fact the majority of people will have them on ignore. I'm getting a bit riled up over this entire issue... I have received NUMEROUS threats like this. Yes, you guessed it - it was the clowns ones who hated CGC, everything they stood for, yet chased me over here. Some of them have more posts than I have in the 10 years or whatever it is I first registered( if that shill would re-post my registration number # 200-something; HA! When you need them, you can't get even a good shill!), and I have yet to have seen them sell ANY CGC product here, or on eBay. But I am not here to hijack my friend's Thread with MY agenda(s), which are NEVER hidden. I am here on comicdona's Thread to show my total loyalty and support, and to LINK these thoughts from everyone concerned as the collective, that something HAS to be done. It is apparent that the powers at CGC that may be, just either: 1) don't think that this is important 2) just delete posts as a short-term band-aid 3) they truly think that this is the LOVE BOAT and every episode of infighting ends well; 4) they don't take us seriously as they should. MY take is that if this were MY business, there is no way on Charlie Sheen's busy medicine cabinet would there be the allowance of the trolls to otherwise harrass, theaten, bait, ridicule, or otherwise insult their Customers that make us what we are as a business. The trolls have been very clever here, and has actually gained several of the CGCers' confidence. But that is not that major of a point: if they behave, all would be well. Butthere is an EASY SOLUTION TO ALL OF THESE PROBLEMS: The Boards should be open to THOSE WHO PURCHASE( send submissions in) THE PRODUCT - not this other way around that those who DO NOT NOR EVER INTEND TO SUBMIT shoudl be allowed on a Forum. I went round and round with Borock, Haspel, and now Harshen, and I guess they STILL HOLD OUT HOPE that the trolls MIGHT send in a batch of three moderns to get their customary 9.8. Not gonna happen. But let's say I am 95% right and a few DO send in three mods and happily take their three 9.8's. At what cost did the company sacrifice to get the trolls to submit? That cost is I KNOW TO BE A FACT a Randall Bartlett, of West Hills, CA. His ASM collection would give Brulato a run for his money. Randall has stopped posting, deactivated his CGC account, and sold me part of his collection, and consigned out the rest. The trolls got to him, he said, " hey CGC would not do anything, I quit". Now how many others have been chased out fo this hobby? If you type on this reply that this is an isolated case, that tells a lot. I am thinking about getting a petition together, write the synopsis myself( I will make the time), get those who I believe that understand what is at stake here, and present it to THE TOP PERSON at The Collectibles Company. And I am going to print this now in case this gets mysteriously "deleted". Ther Threats have got to stop, the trolling has got to stop, the harrassment has got to stop, the insults and blaming has got to stop. Food for thought: this does not happen at the PGX site. What does Patterson know that we here at CGC does not know? I only envy Patterson for that power he has to have the strength to stop the bull over there; I wished I could be the one to stop it here. Like me, hate me, does not matter. I defended CGC when they first came into being, and I feel that my loyalty to them has been misplaced. I send comics in. Have two batches supposedly on backorder. I have three more ready to go, but I am nervous about my 9.2's cracked out/pressed coming back at 8.0 instead of the last batch of 9.2's that came back at 8.5's. CGC does not retaliate? Maybe they don't need me and they really need the trolls. Sad to concede that this may have been the case through all my flamewars with Stu Cathell, and a few others who post here now. I gotta stop before they kick me off. Concerned but determined CAL

Hello I hope it was not because of your 1st post on the CAL's Column. Notice the few CGCers that have participated on this Thread... "In the end it is not the voices and shout-downs of our enemies that we will remember; it is the deafening 'silence' of our so-called 'friends'" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. CAL who had comicdonna's back Truly bizarre post. Plenty of people have posted prior to you, and his post in your thread is surely of no consequence here. Everyone here has got Mike's back. Everyone. I beg of you to re-look at that CAL's Column Aug Thread. The first reply was from comicdonna. If you had read what I typed properly, Sir, you would not have needed to label my post as "bizarre". I really don't care per se, I am upset that our fellow comic collector and good-standing member got this inappropriate threat. Something HAS to be done about those who have the "other agenda than comic collecting" I wish others would chime in like comicdonna did, but in my estimation very few have done so DESPITE over 1,000 views. CAL who tried with Borock, Haspel, and Harshen - call them and ask them

Mmm.. just 6 minutes elapsed, and now the views are over 400. Just me, eh??? CAL very busy w/ something important today...

As of this Post, there have been 375 views. But less than 20 ( twenty) participants??? CAL

Hello I hope it was not because of your 1st post on the CAL's Column. Notice the few CGCers that have participated on this Thread... "In the end it is not the voices and shout-downs of our enemies that we will remember; it is the deafening 'silence' of our so-called 'friends'" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. CAL who had HAS comicdonna's back

Nice pics! CAL the animal lover

Yes I believe he has FIVE more ebay user ID's. Another reason ebay should only allow ONE buying ID and ONE Selling ID. get 'em CAL

This adsahakian1 is the same eBayer texastoast008. The latter has been NARU'D by the pinks. Under the adsahakian1 he bought: ASM 43 CGC 7.0 ASM 49 CGC 8.5 Pacific Coast IMSM 1 CGC 8.5 Silver S 8 CGC 8.5 and a 5th one that I must have forgot to post feedback for( even though he has NEVER posted one for me... more on that later) Under the texastoast 008 he bought: IMSM 1 CGC 9.4 FF 48 CGC 8.0 Silver S 11 CGC 8.5 ASM 23 CGC 8.0 ASM 32 CGC 8.5 During that round of auctions I advertised that if you bought five( 5) or more items ONE CENT ship/insurance USA. I was ready to give him the discount. However, it was THREE WEEKS since he paid. And then he paid for four(4) of the lowest cost ones, 2 from each user ID. I told him that this was the THIRD time he bid my stuff up, and I had a hard time collecting. He made me so upset I told him that he had to pay full shipping. He said ok. The 2nd to the last time, he took almost 4 weeks to pay, dragging me out, paying one here, one there. And he did a CHARGEBACK. I got as ugly as anyone here can imagine w/ PayPal, and was able to stave off the chargeback. Everyone here knows I use UPS as my shipper now, and here is ONE GREAT BENEFIT: I had UPS freeze transit until I told them to resume. Yes they charged me $15.00 or so to do this, but I figured it was worth it in case he did not pay. They "froze" the shipment for three business days. By that time, the funds DID clear, and to be safe, I moved the $$$ and was going to cornhole PayPal by closing the one checking account linked to PayPal. I don't approve of the practice, but 4.5K was 4.5K. There was at least three weeks before my next selling batch, THEN I blocked both user ID's. Yes he paid top prices for my somewhat high grades. He did buy the IMSM 9.4/FF 48 8.0 at going rate, but the others he probably overpaid for. he bought 6 K off of me sometime last year. But chasing him and seeing him stiff others is something I don't want or need anymore. And he has NEVER left me not ONE feedback, despite his promises to do so. Yes, the feedback is important to me. I sold the items, packed them bomb-proof, and did my job. The BUYER decides when the transaction(s) are completed to their satisfaction, and imo the buyer should post first. many eBayers and CGCers have argued against this point to me. But more important, the buyer must PAY in a timely manner! CAL who used blocked bidder list a lot

what IS any difference between a 9.8 and 9.9??? once you ge tthe answer to THIS Q you will have all the info you need about grading. CAL tried the 10.0 game for a while...

I submitted a GS X-Men 1 CGC 9.2 as a reholder two years ago, and a 9.4 came back. I had a feeling the book had been slightly undergraded. try a similar resub now... you were lucky then my friend CAL

I hope I am doing this right. I want to leave Kudos for: DALE ROBERTS for selling me the: ASM # 68 CGC NM 9.4 FIGHT COMICS # 77 CGC VF 8.0. restocking CAL

To Mark 1: Thanx for giving me a chance to be what you needed at this time. Thanx to all the CGCers that gave Mark 1 encouragement and sound advice. Take care and hope to see you again and again! CAL starting to gather steam....

Kudos to Tom Moore for those great ASM's: 61, 71, 81, 91, 98 & 99 All NM 9.4's!!! Take care and see ya again sometime! Your Loyal Customer CAL :-)

Overdue Kudos to: JAMES HOWLETT for purchasing that great TOS # 97( Whiplash) CGC NM 9.2 WHITE!!! He jumped on it so fast I know I mispriced it, but the book has a great home!!! Enjoy Whiplash May 7th!!! CAL who will be 1st in line ahead of the kids...

what does that say about us??? Disappointed CAL

Spent 30 min. slugging through this Thread. Very disappointed. Sad CAL

Kudos to: Dopy02 For those Silver Surfer #'s 9 & 16 CGC cracked slabs sales Take care and thanx for the low-priced deals! CAL the fixer-upper

KUDOS to: The AVENGER80 For that partial trade w/ cash: He wanted IMSM 7.0 - and I wanted Iron Man 7.0!!! CAL the Iron Man fan!!!