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Timed
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Hot take; CGC has an easier path forward if they come out and explain this situation as a rogue employee being involved - even if this was not actually the case. Doing so, from a PR stance, would allow CGC to stand by their methods of "guaranteeing" books (even though we know how complacent and lax CGC actually is), and the blame would be shifted away from CGC as a whole. "We will take this as a learning lesson, and heavily screen our current and future employees..."
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On some of the offending books, the graders' notes match the book scanned in. For example on the 8.5 IH 181 I linked earlier, the notes accurately described the visible defects. This must mean that these particular books weren't reholdered, but were actually "graded", but it's the loosest grading I have ever seen. Wondering how thicker the plot goes.
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I didn't have much belief in that myself at first, but now after seeing all these other books and the fact that the seller has admitted to having friends at CGC (keep in mind this was in private messages with the guy who initially found the swapped 252, as they were acquaintances already)... I just don't know now.
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Going through the sellers' visible sold listings on eBay, a vast majority just scream scam. In what world is this IH 181 an 8.5? CGC cert lookup. Heavy spine ticks, bottom right corner crease, foxing... this is like a 6.5 or 7. Genuinely wondering now if this dude indeed had some "favors" done from someone at CGC.
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Don't know if this has been mentioned, but in this livestream (timestamp 18:06) the guy that originally brought this to light mentions something very interesting... the fraudster said to him in DM's that he had "relationships with higher ups at CGC" and "calls in favors from time to time". For context, he had talked with the guy before this exposure - it was by sheer dumbness that the culprit exposed himself by providing conflicting info in desperation, when the house of cards had begun to collapse. This may explain how this has transpired.
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That's the bare minimum and more like one of the first steps that needs to be taken to get to the bottom of this. We have two confirmed cases of fraud by this seller, costing over $27,000 in just those two books, and these are just two that have sold recently where we have photographic proof of the reholdered books being different than the originals.
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My ASM 300 was just upcharged to the Unlimited Tier...
Timed replied to Timed's topic in Comics General
At least then I could say I own an ASM #3 9.6! -
Back in November, I had posted this thread talking about how I had stumbled upon a book that I genuinely believed to be a 9.9... well, it was an ASM 300. I have submitted multiple 300's that ended up a 9.8, and the highest tier I have ever been upcharged to was the Express tier - even after that tier was "removed", I still have been getting upcharges to Express sometimes. Now, this particular copy was the best looking copy of an ASM 300 that I had ever seen, and I actually had a feeling it had a shot at a 9.9... ...but I doubt that I got the 9.9 because I was only charged the minimum $150. Don't do me like that, CGC!