seanfingh

Your welcome.

Telling someone that you believe their grading is incorrect is not scolding them. Some people just don't want to be told that the stove burner is hot. They need to check for themselves. Carry on.

xxHBTBxx!!!!! {Swoons}

They could file a claim for payment in your estate. But in all seriousness, this is going to happen at some point if it already hasn't.

They will get shipped back to your address and your heirs can squabble over them like everything else.

When I sent in 9.8s they came back 9.8s, because I shipped hundred and sometimes thousands of books a year. I became an expert at it. I did have a couple of shipments damaged, in both cases because of gross mishandling by the common carrier. It happens. The OP absolutely did discuss the new waiver, and anyone that wants to continue talking about it, please feel free. I was far more interested in helping the gentleman figure out why his books were damaged (which it turns out, was not the actual case . . .) Damage waivers are SOP in virtually every industry. That doesn't mean you have to like them nor do you have to use a company that has one. It also goes without saying that continued rich conversation about the applicability, use and ramifications of damage waivers will most likely be enlightening to future readers of this thread. So carry on wayward son, and shine on crazy diamond. Pound your shoe with vigor and gusto - shout from the rooftops. And I will champion your right to do so.

You haven't read very many sets of terms and conditions, have you? And if you think that response is off topic, when this poor dude is mailing high grade comics in padded mailers, then you need to check your head. Clearly, the reason that CGC is re-emphasizing their damage waiver is because folks are shipping high grade books poorly, getting them damaged, and then expecting CGC to make them whole. Consider this a PSA for folks that don't do a lot of shipping of condition-sensitive materials. But if you want to bang your shoe on the podium about liability waivers, knock yourself out.

Also, I just re-read that you used padded mailers. That is an absolutely no. You have to use boxes to ship comic books. Period. Hard stop. I don't care what the marketers say, padded mailers are worse than shipping in a cereal box. Save the boxes that CGC ships in, bind the comics in the bags and boards well, put lots of impact-absorbing padding around them and then ship.

MCF335 - 1st off, I am really sorry this happened. The type of damage exhibited here, were i called in to testify based upon my experience, comes from shipping (assuming that the rest look pretty much like this.) I have dropped books before and I have seen shipping damage and the difference is that when books are dropped, there is nothing holding them together for commonality of damage. So you will get some that land flat and are OK (my experience is that lot of them land flat probably because of physics), some that hit one corner, some that hit another, some that have edge damage and some can hit so hard that it generates spine tics. For that type of shipping damage, the boards and books will have very similar looking corner or edge crunches because you packed them uniformly and the damage was as the result of a serious impact in one place. What you have to remember (if you ever decide to ship comics again) is that a book can be secure in its bag and board for a static situation, but you have to use a lot of extra padding and softness around them or this type of impact damage will just blast the bag and board and transmit the impact dynamically to the book. I am certain that you did include other protection but sometimes the impacts are simply brutal.

Why don't you see how long you can hold your f-ing breath? I hope you win!!

Also, the pinup issue is awesome! I do not have that.

Yep. Honestly, I felt like they were a little watered down. I only read the first issue or two and I was like "Yeah, I'll just keep the originals."

I had two full sets - one signed by Troy Hickman and one not. I am not certain where they are are - but what I am certain of is that they are absolutely great stories, and if the art was as good as the stories, they would be worth a king's ransom.

There are plenty of artists who haven't done sketch covers. My "rarest" sketch covers were done by: George Tuska, Sam Glanzman, Rich Buckler, Jim Steranko, John Totleben, Mike Ploog and Russ Heath https://www.myslabbedcomics.com/GalleryRoom.asp?Page=1&GSub=248

I'm not removing anything. I bought it from Jeff. I slabbed it and I owned it for years. That gallery is how I enjoy and remember the books that I no longer own. If you want to register it to the registry and I need to release it to do that, I am happy to. That is an image of my book that I created when it was my book.

My whole main collection is still on MSC. That doesn't have any bearing on whether I still have it or not. Sucka.

I'm not going to answer the question you asked. The sketch collections that deserve special attention for being great, amazing and outrageous, in Fingh's opinion are as follows: IVDYER - absolutely breathtaking sketch collection, with an emphasis on photorealistic celebrity sketches Alphatrion - has some of the most coveted, rare and doggone amazing sketches in the world MedicAR - focuses on his personal favorite artists (not all of whom are mainstream guys) and Stan Lee items. His collection is not to be missed. Harley Troy - an absolutely insane collection of Hero Initiative sketches. There are tons of other great collections, but these deserve special consideration.

His post was reported.

No.

I have subbed so many Charltons, including a Great Grape Ape #1 that got a 9.8. But that Hong Kong Phooey is the nicest Charlton I ever subbed. I honestly can't remember if I still have it or not. I may go look for it . . .

I love beer - I want to enjoy it, especially with a meal. But the seltzers are great if you are floating in a lake or sitting by the pool and you are going to have about eight of them.

Zima has been rebranded into White Claw - now it is edgy and cool. And also quite refreshing.

There should have been plenty of time to negotiate language that would have encompassed the strange circumstances at play here. But it appears that the same old language trundled out for every movie was used and no one thought about how it was going to affect incentive based pay until it was too late. The question for me is were there some workout negotiations, and if so - who shut down negotiations? That would let me know who I think was trying to game the system.

My copy had two sets of Siamese pages, so it was replete with all kinds of problems.

I think the OP should confirm this. It is very possible that this is now correct. It is also possible that they will only do it for Sketch Covers. Back in the day, I had Joe Pantagliano sign a FCBD Flip book that was Stray Bullets on one side and Matrix on the other. I asked that it be slabbed with Matrix on the front, and they wouldn't do it because of which side had the indicia information. They demanded that it be slabbed with the indicia in the front. I would be worried about the same thing with a back cover ad. Just another perspective to be reviewed.