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Does anyone remember if the buy-side account for eBay transactions was visible to all users (even those not involved in the transaction) back in 2016, and is that information searchable with services like Worthpoint and Terapeak? @comicwiz

Given a CGC slab cert # sold in the past, does anyone know a way to find the eBay ID that purchased that listing? This is related to uncovering other possibly related IDs (someone I sold to). Feel free to PM me if you know a method.

I think, when CGC grades every book, they should separately record interior defects, and exterior defects. When a book comes in for reholdering, the reholderer should ask the following: 1) Does this comic match the image CGC took of it when we graded it? 2) Are the exterior defects (which I can see) and the interior defects (which I can't, but which were recorded) consistent with the grade? 3) Are there any new label notations being requested that weren't there before? Point 2 is assuming they want to keep the current procedure of not opening the inner well Additionally, I think the interior and exterior defects should be added to back label, as it defines a sort of "book signature"

You pick topics & news sources you like, then based on the types of articles you read, they show you more of that

I'll take it offline with you. I probably wrote that fast and I can see where some of it's confusing.

I use Google News. Don't know as much about how Apple News works

Nothing I wrote was meant to bring up YouTube. I'll illustrate later

With respect, I'm either not making myself clear enough, you misunderstood or you don't get it

Just to whiteboard this (having just watched "The Gold" on Paramount+ which I heard about from iFanboy and recommend), I think we have "The Account" - the CGC account, who might be Joe Blow in Wahoo, Alaska who owns a comic shop and/or pressing business, and there's "The Front" - Mary Contrary, the return address on the packages of scammer's customers. What is the link between "Front" and "Account", are people being forthcoming about it, are middlemen involved, who knew what and when did they know it. Someone in the middle who works or has worked for Joe Blow might be slipping their own books in with the larger submissions with or without others' knowledge. Disclaimer: Just one person's armchair theory that requires proof and testing. "Middleman" might very well have their own CGC account.

Apple News is just a news aggregator and shows you articles based on your interests. Just Google "CGC scam" and the Comicbook.com article comes up. I found it to be a pretty good summary.

Check out The Gold Room at the Omni Mount Washington Resort next time you are in town

Could very well be $20K x n then

I was exaggerating on the figure. We know at least one book went for that

Plus buying back books from victims at 20K a pop

I think it would be nice if they offered to crack, inspect, and reseal books for cheap/free at cons, maybe offering 100 such slots per show. Maybe limit it to MVS and page count checks. It would be a good PR move in my mind.

+1 Every neighborhood in New York City is home to both higher income and lower income people

YouTubers vs Boardies Parking lot Midnight tonight

Maybe will be the next step after their private investigators gather the info

I just noticed Heritage is already doing this

eBay should allow sales of CGC-slabbed comics only with a hand-entered serial number and a direct link back to the CGC cert lookup page (ebay-embedded and nothing to do with the lister's description)

That's great because I don't want to follow two threads anyway

Could you clarify whether the CGC fan page on Facebook is actually administered/moderated by them or just some fans?

Stay away from sellers you don't know. Ask if they slabbed the book submitted the book to CGC for slabbing themselves. With a little patience and due diligence, you can avoid being a victim.