Nschenks

Hey all! Here are the rules: - First 'take it' trumps all negotiations - Shipping is included in the price (US buyers only, but if you are from Canada, PM me and maybe we can work something out) - Accepted forms of payment: Zelle, Venmo, check, and money order - I will ship USPS Priority insured (Pirate Ship), with signature confirmation; will ship and provide tracking within 2 days of receiving payment - No returns unless damage occurs during shipping - No one on the naughty lists; also, I reserve the right to request kudos or not sell to someone with little or no activity/feedback - I'm still pretty new here, but feel to check out my fledgling kudos thread and attached eBay link! Other than that, feel free to reach out with any questions or to request more pictures! Thanks for looking!

Discounts added! Only going to run this through Sunday, just a heads up

Aliens #2 CGC 9.6 w/ White Pages (FMV: N/A--doesn't sell often as only 50 9.6 or higher on census) $125 $110 shipped

Star Wars: Heir to the Empire #1 'Newsstand Edition' CGC 9.4 w/ White Pages (FMV: $350) $265 $240 shipped

The New Teen Titans #2 CGC 9.8 w/ White Pages (FMV: $900) $750 $720 shipped

Batman Beyond #1 CGC 9.8 w/ White Pages (FMV: $1,300) $1,200 $1,125 shipped

Hey all! Here are the rules: - First 'take it' trumps all negotiations - Shipping is included in the price of the slab (US buyers only, but if you are from Canada, PM me and maybe we can work something out) - Accepted forms of payment: Zelle, Venmo, check, and money order are preferred, by I will also accept PayPal if you can't do the others - I ship USPS Priority insured (Pirate Ship), with signature confirmation upon request; will ship and provide tracking within 2 days of receiving payment - No returns on slabs unless damage occurs during shipping - No one on the naughty lists; also, I reserve the right to request kudos or not sell to someone with little or no activity/feedback - I'm still pretty new here, but feel to check out my fledgling kudos thread and attached eBay link! Other than that, feel free to reach out with any questions or to request more pictures! Thanks for looking!

Awesome! Looks like it cleaned up super nice. I'm not huge fan of a lot of the custom labels, but the Wolvy label looks really good on this book imo

Hm nevermind, they seem to have appeared again. Very weird.

Anyone else's submissions all disappear, like, in the last couple of hours? I checked earlier today and everything was there, but a few minutes ago I got this: "We haven't received any submissions from you in the last 8 months." Is this something I should be worried about?

Lol ok, but I'm not sure anyone could consider the answers you provided 'insight'. Would love a little more specificity if you're willing. But yeah, right now I really don't have anything to go on but your word and a few very vague responses.

Sorry but this is all super vague and still not very convincing. How long ago did you work there? Also, even if you did, I'd imagine there's a good chance they made some big changes since Blackstone took over. Not saying none of what you say is true, but you aren't exactly providing any factual evidence to back it up, either. I know that there are people who sent books back in the same slabs, have them cracked and re-graded without a press, and the book comes back with a different grade. If what you say is true, wouldn't CGC have zero incentive to change any grade?

But doesn't this make the assumption the grader is the person cracking it out? That seems...inefficient. I re-subbed one recently and it's been going through the same steps as a normal submission. Re-grading is the same as a normal submission, from what I've been lead to understand, while re-holdering is a completely different thing. Why do you think the grader is the one who cracks the book? And if they aren't, why would they need to see the original label? I dunno, it just doesn't seem to me there is any real reason CGC would have for the grader either A.) cracking the book; or B.) needing to know the grade, which would kind of defeat the purpose of grading without any pre--conceived notion of what a book may have been graded before.

Of course not lol. I said 'from my understanding'. But you could argue both ways I think. Crack it yourself, it's less protected in shipping but they definitely won't know the grade; or don't, and you at least do your part to keep the census count more accurate and have a little more protection during shipping. I get why someone wouldn't send it back still slabbed, but the reasoning brushes a little too close to conspiracy theory for my taste. I don't really see any point to the graders knowing a grade before-hand, especially if they're already only spending 15 seconds on a book lol. What's an extra 10 seconds? One more dollar-bin-destined modern variant? TBH my biggest worry in sending a slabbed book back in would be that they mangle it cracking it out. But then again, they could certainly mangle it at any other points too, sooo To each their own, I suppose!

Sharp corners and no ticks that I can see--maybe a tiny bit of soiling/ink transfer on the back, but regardless book looks easy 9.4+ to me. Only things I really see are a bit of wear on the bottom of the spine and maybe a small nick TRFC by the Comics Code box. (This book is on fire right now, btw--and solely based on un-verified rumors. Taylor Swift'll do that I guess...)

From my understanding, the graders never know what any book has been graded previously (if it had been), no? Would be a pretty terrible practice for the premier third party grading company for their graders to have any knowledge of the books they are grading beforehand (especially if CGC says they do not). Any insinuations to the contrary just seem like idle speculation in the absence of any hard evidence. All we really have to go on are what CGC says and anecdotes from others--and in regard to the latter, I'm pretty sure a good chunk of sig series slabs are sent in un-cracked and often come back with different grades (both better and worse).

That upper right crease is gonna hurt, but with a press I could see 7.5? Book looks really nice otherwise

Yeah it really all depends. If it's for your PC and you don't really care about the number and just want the comic protected for display, then no need to re-sub. If it's for re-sale, then you'll have to do a little math. I'd say if you're pretty certain it has a good chance at 9.8 if subbed again and the return jumps substantially for 9.8 versus 9.6, then it could be worth it to re-sub. No need to even crack it--just send it back (put in the Cert # when you fill out the form so CGC will know to wipe that entry once they crack the slab). That way it's better protected during shipping and CGC knows it's a re-sub. They'll crack the book themselves and have it regraded (the graders--in theory--will have no idea it has been subbed before so won't know what grade it previously was). It's admittedly a bit of a crapshoot, but then so is 3rd party grading in general. As an example, I got a sub back recently, and the book I thought had the best chance of 9.8 got a 9.6. FMV for 9.8 is like 4-5x what it is in 9.6, and since I was planning on selling it anyway, I sent it back in. Full disclosure, though, this was kind of outlier for me--I don't really like the crack and re-slab game, but this was the first book that checked all the boxes for me where I was like 'ok, this is worth sending in again.' New grade still pending, but if you have the time and money and think your book has got a legit shot, you're more than justified in sending it back in. Hope this helps!

A little late to this, but I've seen these marks fairly regularly on modern books. I call them 'staple stress', but I'm not sure what the actual term is, if there is one. If I had to guess I'd say it's rub caused by stacking during shipping, and the pressure of the books on top causes 'hot spots' where the ends of the staples are turned back in (since the book is ever slightly thicker at the staples)--I believe if the staples are rounded in, it can make these little hot spots. Could be way off, of course, but if that is the case, CGC seems to be pretty lenient in my experience, as they often are with stuff that happens during shipping (like spine wear from the spine rubbing against the interior divider during shipping, for another example). Maybe not a 9.8 for most people, but in a lottt of cases--again, just based on what I've seen--this book will often get a 9.8 if everything else is good. These hot spots are very common on Ultimate Fallout 4, for example, a book with like a billion 9.8's. Check out scans of the 9.8's of that book and you'll see this defect pretty consistently. CGC seems to lump in a lot of shipping defects as manufacturing defects, which generally don't affect the grade under 9.9 unless they accumulate or are glaringly bad. Not to everyone's agreement, for sure, but that's how they do, from what I've seen/heard. No matter what anyone else says, 9.8's aren't perfect (and neither is CGC). 9.8's are ultimately the product of subjective decisions no matter how you slice it or how 'objective' you might try to be about it--in the end it's just a number, and if that makes you happy, I wouldn't worry about a little spine rub on the back. But if that spine rub and having the appearance of a flawless book matters more, definitely look for another one! Ultimately it's about what you want. Is that book 9.8? Well, someone at CGC thought it was. Is it what someone else thinks is 9.8? One person's 9.8 is another person's 9.0 or 9.2, just as one person's 5.5 is another person's 'HIGH GRADE!' on eBay. Just my two cents. Hope this helps.

Woo I'm in! Fully ready to +6 on GA books I have absolutely no business attempting to grade

This could just be the case of someone who really, really wanted to have stumbled on a pot of gold and didn't initially have the intention of scamming anyone. I could see it being very possible he actually did stumble across the fake, and then, when others couldn't initially identify it as such, got way too excited and tried to sell it before he knew what it actually was. Possibly as more info came out, he felt he was in too deep (maybe he'd spent too much time day-dreaming about what he'd do with all that money, who knows) and resorted to faking a message to Kevin Eastman. His attempts at pushing the book don't scream someone who was trying to pull a scam from the start, even if that's what it developed into--to me they scream incidental amateur. Not excusing any of this, of course. A scam is a scam, and posting fake info to sell a book for sure crosses that line. EDIT: Whelp, after the new info, seems my take didn't age well lol. Just gotta hope no one falls for his selling tactics...can't imagine he'd show his face on these boards again though

9.4 seems pretty harsh to me. The back corners look a little blunted, but technically that alone shouldn't be enough to ding down to 9.4 based on my own experiences. It's gotta be the red dot to the right of Spidey's left eye, as someone else mentioned. Could be printing error (when in doubt just scan a bunch of other sales on GoCollect or some other site), but if it's a pen mark or something that may be enough as it would be considered a stain probably. In which you're fortunate to get 9.4 lol. It's also possible it's a common printing defect that the graders just don't know about--even with excellent graders, there are so many books out there with such a wide variety of common (and uncommon) printing defects, that some are surely missed occasionally. I'd be curious to see the grading notes if there are any. Realistically though: Sometimes it's just luck of the draw. In one of my more recent subs I had a Thor 337 come back 9.2 WP and I thought it was a lock for 9.4 bare minimum. All the other books were within the ranges I thought, but that one continues to baffle me (a couple of very small ticks on the front were all I could find, which shouldn't be enough to ding down that low). End of the day, though, graders are human and prone to variation like anyone else. They're under a lot of pressure and time constraints, so it's easy to see why they possibly could, say, mistake a light artifact for a stain or a printing defect for a handling defect every now and then. All things considered, it's pretty amazing just how consistent they are with the volume they do--if I had to grade so many books in a day on those time constraints, I'd be missing stuff left and right and CGC would likely be burning to the ground under complaints about my grading. One thing you can do (though it may not be cost effective), is if you really trust your instincts and think it was under-graded..just send it it again and have them crack and regrade it. I don't really like playing the crack and re-grade game, but every once in a while it might make sense. You likely won't have to press it again, and it'll be a bit safer sent back in the slab. I just sent back a 9.6 because I'm fairly confident it could have gotten 9.8 considering the other books in the same sub (I had another book come back the same grade with multiple spine ticks that I thought was 9.2 max lol)--though it does help that the book in question in my case is worth substantially more in 9.8, so the cost is mitigated a bit. But maybe it's worth it for you if you really want that 9.6/9.8! Anyway, hope this helps (sorry for the long-winded post lol).

If everything else was sound, I'd probably roll with the classic 'positive--but with constructive criticism!' feedback. Then again, I try my best to give benefit of the doubt to sellers whenever possible, especially considering how shafted they can by eBay on a regular basis

Question (hopefully not an obvious or dumb one lol): I am an eBay buyer as well as a seller--if I paste this list into my 'blocker user' list, will it let me know if I come across a seller who is on the list, so I know not to purchase from them? If so, would it inform me just being on their page or only when I went to purchase something? Thanks in advance!

I mean I'm pretty sure the reason was he shouldn't have been auctioning that book on eBay in the first place. People will do what they want, but that doesn't make it not a s**tty move. Long term that strategy is going to make people not want to buy from them-- A. for making a poor decision in posting it there; and B. for reneging on the sale because they realized their mistake too late. Weak stuff