JBrady

Can you recommend a scanner that’s used solely for scanning comic slabs?

I just received this Batman slab, and, as you can see, the plastic is extremely dirty with lots of marks. This isn’t on the outside, it’s inside the slab. Not normal, right?

When submitting books, does the TAT estimate clock start ticking when you receive the books from USPS or is it the roughly 1 week later when they’re logged into the system? For instance, my latest submission was picked up from CGC’s PO Box on 4/7/23 according to the tracking info provided by USPS but on the CGC submission tracking page it says “received: 4/14/23”. Thanks for any insight you can offer.

It’s a travesty that Bat City Comics in Bradenton isn’t on that list!

I thought that, too, back in June when I ordered a slabbed book from this company with an estimated delivery date of 4/26/23 which still hasn’t shipped, yet.

I sent you a PM with the name, as you requested. As I requested, please don’t publicize it. Again, I was never trying to call anyone out, just seeking to understand.

I don’t want to call out any store, this isn’t about that. But, their estimated delivery dates are right there on their site. I’m not making this up. If someone wants to verify my claim, I’d be happy to share the name via PM if the person also promises NOT to share the name publicly in this thread (again, I’m not trying to name and shame, just looking to understand).

I have a membership and actually submitted some this week. But, I’ve had HORRIFIC luck buying raw exclusive variants online and have only received about 10% of them as 9.8 candidates and so, doing the math, I’ve determined it’s better for me to buy the guaranteed 9.8 directly from the shop. As but an example, the last shipment of store exclusives arrived in such awful shape that the shop refunded the entire $150 order after I provided pictures of the books. Two were quantity limited (600) and they didn’t even ask me to send pictures of me ripping the cover to pieces because it was already so bad that it didn’t matter. The shipping box was pristine, the shop sent them that way. And for some reason, this isn’t unusual for me. The irony of that shipment is that I had posted about my luck receiving store exclusives damaged and the shop owner contacted me personally and invited me to order from them because they don’t ship books like that, so I ordered from them and they absolutely shipped books like that.

Yeah, I mentioned that current TAT is around 20 days which is why I’m confused about the almost 8 month delivery time the shop is quoting (which they reinforced when I emailed them by stating CGC’s stated TAT don’t apply to big shops)

Hi, A very large comic retailer, large enough to get numerous store exclusives with their name on it every month, claims that the reason their estimated delivery date is 8 months in the future is because of how many books they send to CGC and that it just takes CGC time to grade them all. Here’s the situation: on this retailers website, I want to buy a newly released (as of Wednesday) book that is exclusive to them in a CGC 9.8 grade. Even though the release date is 4/5, the delivery date is the end of November, almost 8 months from now. This doesn’t make ANY sense to me based on what I (think I) know about how CGC works but I thought I’d come here and ask for clarification in case there’s something I don’t that’s relevant. From what I can tell, CGC promises to treat all orders the same (regardless of how many books are sent in) and even in situations where prescreening is involved, they anticipate no additional time to get an order out but do allow for occasional exceptions where they say it may take twice as long as normal (so, currently, 40 days instead of 20). It seems like this store is lying to me, which would cause me to blacklist them, and that something else is at play that they are not acknowledging and are simply putting blame on CGC for, thinking I’ll just believe them. Other than pressing, which I can’t imagine why they’d bother pressing every order of newly released books, could there be any other reason why it would take CGC 6-7 months to turnaround an order of any number of modern, blue label books for a store? (Especially when this store does this regularly and hence, CGC has already accounted for the workload by hiring and training staff) Thanks for any insight y’all can offer. Also, I am purposely not identifying the store.

The page linked to in the post still shows the prior labels as current and these new labels aren’t shown anywhere on the page.