MadGenius

There are a handful of sellers that I trust on there, but the majority do overgrade books IMO. And the site has always offered inflated shipping costs relative to what actual costs should be.

Hi Mollie, Can you please expand the Runaways (Complete) set with the following books from Volume 5 of the series?: Runaways #1 (11/17) Runaways #1 Alphona Variant Cover A (11/17) Runaways #1 Alphona Variant Cover B (11/17) Runaways #1 Lim Variant Cover (11/17) Runaways #1 Stan Lee Box Edition (11/17) Runaways #1 Variant Edition (11/17) Runaways #1 Wada Variant Cover (11/17) Runaways #1 Young Variant Cover (11/17) Runaways #2 (12/17) Runaways #2 Variant Edition (12/17) Runaways #3 (1/18) Runaways #3 Variant Edition (1/18) Runaways #4 (2/18) Runaways #5 (3/18) Runaways #6 (4/18) Runaways #6 Variant Edition (4/18) Thanks!

Hi Mollie, Can you please create a set for Runaways Volume 5 (2017)?: Runaways #1 (11/17) Runaways #1 Alphona Variant Cover A (11/17) Runaways #1 Alphona Variant Cover B (11/17) Runaways #1 Lim Variant Cover (11/17) Runaways #1 Stan Lee Box Edition (11/17) Runaways #1 Variant Edition (11/17) Runaways #1 Wada Variant Cover (11/17) Runaways #1 Young Variant Cover (11/17) Runaways #2 (12/17) Runaways #2 Variant Edition (12/17) Runaways #3 (1/18) Runaways #3 Variant Edition (1/18) Runaways #4 (2/18) Runaways #5 (3/18) Runaways #6 (4/18) Runaways #6 Variant Edition (4/18) Thanks!

Hi Mollie, Can you please add the following books to both the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Complete) and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol. 2 sets? Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #20 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #21 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #22 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #23 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #23 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #24 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #25 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #25 Variant Edition Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #26 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #27 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #27 Lenticular Cover Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #27 Allred Variant Cover Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #27 Christopher Variant Cover Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #27 McKone Variant Cover Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #27 Stan Lee Box Edition Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #28 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #29 Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #30 Thanks!

For this reason, I'd like to see the Signature Series forms be available online. Hopefully this is something that CGC is considering in the near future.

Who are you using for preorders these days?

I just looked at my invoice history for the past 6 months. I've submitted 37 books including the 2 book reholder that they messed up by transposing the labels. I had 4 label errors out of 37 (10.8%) and that is not counting the one that was cracked. Small sample size, granted, but a 5-10% error rate seems about right based on my experience over the years. Is it bad luck? Possibly, but I've submitted enough books over the years for some of that bad luck to even out. It hasn't. In my opinion, an error rate of less than 1% is what I would expect, but I feel they are above that figure. And this is just QC/label errors. Don't even get me started on the various accounting errors I've experience over the years. I like the CGC product and they always, eventually, make good on these errors so I keep coming back. BUT, I would like them a lot more if I didn't have to deal with these sorts of this on a semi-regular basis.

Thank you, Sean and Shane. It's in everyone's best interest that CGC improves in the QC department. How much time and money was wasted with this one submission that had to be sent back twice? Mistakes will happen, but if CGC had ensure they are minimized then that is better for their bottom line and will engender more good will from their customer base.

Yes, whatever indeed. For the record, these have already been sent back. Now I have to battle accounting to have the credit for my return shipping applied to my account. Also, this would be the second time I've had to send these particular books back in for a reholder. The first time they missed a signature on the label for the book that was signed and the one that isn't signed showed up with a huge crack on the back on the slab. I should have had both of these in my possession over a month ago, but the comedy of errors with QC has resulted in me having to send them back twice. This is kind of par for the course and not an isolated incident. Rarely do I get a submission back without any label errors or slab damaged from shipping.

Yep. QC is great. Nothing to see here.

CGC won't do anything until it hits graded status. Once it does either give them a call or email them to correct the information if CGC still hasn't caught the error by then.

QC continues to be poor consistently.

What makes you think something is wrong? Looks fine to me.

If you've ever open a CGC case and removed the book you'll notice there is a bit of static electricity between the cover and the inner well. If you hit the case hard enough the static electricity will keep the cover in place, but the interior pages will move with the force (and take the staples with them if the force is great enough). I've seen this a couple of times with the newer case, but apparently the same mechanism is in the place for the older slab design as well. Sadly, this book is now nowhere close to a 9.8 any more. It is in the lower to mid grades with the popped staple.

Yes, I own three of them. They are fairly rare, but do show up from time to time. The market price doesn't seem to differ between Direct and Newsstand, but I love my newsstand copies nonetheless.

I will say that the last straw with DCBS was when my April preorders arrived bound with a rubber band. I do pay extra for bags and boards, so thankfully no damage occurred to the books, but I feel like this practice is a disaster waiting to happen.

I've switched to Midtown for July preorders. Still two more months of shipments from DCBS in the meantime, so I'll cross my fingers that there are no issues.

I'm offering 15% off most items in my eBay Store for a limited time this weekend.

I've listed a bunch of new items in my eBay Store: CGC slabs, various 1st appearances and cheap high grade runs!

Why are all of the people in this guy's life incapable of buying their own comics?

The request for a partial refund of $100 seems like a huge red flag. He needs the $650 for rent, but he can spare $550? His rent is only $100?? Something smells rotten.

I like the new slab and thought about reholdering all of my books. Then I realized it would cost me about 4k to do that. I'm not thinking about doing that anymore.

Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends #1 CGC 9.8 $180

Rude + whomever else you can get