MarvelsKryptonite

Is that surprising?

Well then do you apparently have all day? You're like a fat kid running around cake.

And therein lies why any recourse to this problem or attempt to resolve it is futile because of nerds like you what are you laughing about you damn nerd what are you laughing about seriously what is so funny to you?

Not sure why you find this funny since it's of enough concern to even be talking about it

I actually don't know at what point I was involved in this but everything that I read and seen online now indicates that I was the last seller.

Yeah this is exactly what I don't want to deal with Why don't you just ask me what it is you want to ask me and I will answer that. P e r i o d I don't want to play this stupid things that you guys do on these threads and talk with this b******* back and forth ask me what you want to ask me

Why do you cut the b******* and ask me what you want to ask me?

I apologize for being condescending in previous comments. That is not called for. The only reason I have come to these boards was to educate myself on what I found out and determined was that I was ripped off by one of the people that is calling themselves a victim here. Strangely enough, The man behind the comics is the one who told me that I got ripped off by the other one he's now claiming to be a victim. This is so my numbing I can't even wrap my head around the fact of what anybody is talking about I don't understand the lingo and the vocabulary. The police do not have interest in it I am trying to figure out an avenue to appropriately address this so that I can provide the information that needs to be provided and I'm trying not to be condescending and I'm sorry.

That would be because this is the only topic I have any interest in otherwise I probably would have nothing to do with it. Given the topic there's been the need to become educated on the interest for which you oversee. I Apologize for any uncouth statements. This is just very aggravating.

Which actually doesn't answer much through limited investigation.

Within confines, please allow me to answer whatever questions you have because this has now become more concerning than the fact that proof is available to show where these items came from.

Yes, as much interest as the accused

If really you want to go down the rabbit hole, it's absolutely genius the collaboration of how to liberate oneself from what the original crime was - which was simply taking advantage of someone with less knowledge than they have now.

Some of you dorks may be able to conjure up the possibility that the seller of these items got in contact with the "victims" through their solicitation to buy such items after they were acquired them among a number of things in a storage locker auction. And the only reason they would know this whole BS is happening is because they found out they themself had been ripped off for the price they naively accepted for the items. That's to say if what they sold was in fact real, and what the "victims" were given the opportunity and faith of expertise in determining by buying them from someone who never once claimed to have any understanding of anything about them. All of which prompted them to educate themselves on this industry, which doesn't take a rocket scientist to do. But it sure takes a nerd to want to remain focused on. Perhaps that is why the apparently coveted captain America was scattered in the mix - because the seller didn't know toilet paper cartoon drawings from outhouse toilet paper wipes. Oh, but the seller gave false names and the phone number no longer gets an answer!? Safe operation in life 101, especially if you've ever sold or bought something in Tacoma, Washington - never meet at your home, and never give out personal information. Here is the crux of this mess: 1.) what CGC is intended for and to provide was without question successful. 2.) A whole majority of the population would ask; if it's the same thing you couldn't tell the difference from, then who the hell cares? 3.) Information of where these items got into the hands of the so-called "scammer" is being provided to Mark Zaid, who graciously made their contact info available. 4.) Some questions might be presented to the integrity of the so-called "victims" in the fact of what they ripped off the so-called "scammer" for what they both had no indication was not what it was. If they had determined what it appears they should have been able to do because of their numerous years in the industry, and what they were called upon because of their solicitation to be able to determine, this mess wouldn't have become what it apparently is. Legal counsel seems necessary and is being sought. Until then, ask anything you wish, and answer will be provided because at least for one side of these transactions, nothing ill-intended was the pursuit.

What exactly is a Starbucks video going to provide? If the buyer is expecting that to get his money back for his own lack of due diligence for what the CGC slabs clearly did their job in doing, I think he is on a pipe dream. Speaking of the fact that they met at Starbucks, ask yourself this: if you happened to buy a Chevy pickup as the result of where you advertised that you yourself wanted to buy a vehicle, and when a seller of the vehicle you solicited buying (making you the presumed authority in said transaction) that you thought was a Ford when you bought it, only to find out it was a Hyundai when you got the oil changed, who exactly are you going to blame for that dumb debauchery? Ford? It seems some real intelligence is lacking altogether in all this.

The police are likely "dragging their feet" because they probably figured out that the seller is not the origination of these books - therefore not prosecutable. The OP also refuses to disclose what he paid for this transaction, so we could be talking about $50. If I got ripped off, the first thing I would indicate is how much I got ripped off for in order to convey the seriousness of the matter. Or at least a ballpark. As far as can be determined by the three supposed victims, they don't exactly appear to be people that can afford to pay 50 grand for a comic book, so that seems to be an important factor to determine what we're talking about here.

I find it odd that when I posted on the thread of seeing the whole lot of all these mentioned books in what seemed like a bogus auction with many items, I was subsequently blocked by the OP. Now why would that be? What's the end game here?

The better question is what exactly are you paying for when you have to pay a percentage of a high dollar book compared to when you're slabbing some random $10 ASM? You getting the same exact thing but you're paying a whole lot more for it so what exactly goes into what you're paying for with that? Perhaps some of that money that you're paying for should go into a little bit more secure slab when it's a high dollar comic-like Hulk 1. That only seems reasonable.

I'm thinking more in terms of something like the QR code. They can individualize those things so well that they cannot be replicated, and the scan of the authentic one is the only one that would provide the authenticity confirmation. There's an app for that!

I wonder how many Ferrari owners equipped with a low jack said "I don't want the crooks to know where my Ferrari is."

It's a cool fantasy.

I'm inclined to think any new security measure will involve something digital. Would be rad if you could even track the location of a slab based on serial number or barcode. But that's a little over-zealous, yet not entirely out of the question.

If that's tried and true, I can't seem to find any ethical reason anyone would be trying to do so, or prove that statement incorrect.