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HugeRosen
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if anyone is interested, i spy a Revival signing!
http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6131006#Post6131006
SS Noob help: Can anyone give me some insight here how this works? I'm not a big SS guy so never sent books away to someone. Would I get my own invoice for my books or do all the books they get go on one invoice? If so, how would they determine which books are mine vs others?
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Here's my suggestions for the show:
Dana Cypress - Evangeline Lilly
Martha “Em” Cypress - Rachel Bilson
Ibrahaim Ramin - Naveen Andrews (Sayid from Lost)
Wayne Cypress - Brian Cranston
Cooper Hinch - 1990’s Macaulay Culkin
May Tao - Jamie Chung
Jamie Hettinga - Erin Andrews
Arlene Dittman - Cloris Leachman
Blaine Abel – Colin Farrell
the voice of the creepy white thing - Morgan Freeman
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The fact that they are falling further behind means nothing.
If you currently are taking 500 submissions per day, but could in fact be taking 800 a day if you were more efficient, that's NOT losing business??
No, it's not losing business if the cost of getting the extra 300 per day is too much.
Based on your sig line, you own your own comic shop. If you sell 1000 comics per day but could sell 2000 comics if you hire new employees, expand your store, buy more cash registers, etc, would you do it?
It's a cost/benefit question. This isn't rocket science. But it's not fair to tell CGC to hire more people and buy new equipment when you have absolutely no clue what the costs really are.
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10 hour days.... Holy spoon. Don't try too hard you will burn out.
Just buy another Encapsulation Machine, add a 2nd shift, and hire more graders.
To train the new graders should be done on 2nd shift.
That's a good idea. I'm assuming you will be putting up the $ to purchase the machine, and hire a 2nd shift, and hire more graders? That's very nice of you.
CGC is a business, not a non-profit. They have to balance profits with keeping their customer base happy. With the amount of submissions they are getting, it doesn't seem like the turnaround time is hurting their business.
Actually this argument doesn't hold any water whatsoever. To start with, you offer no proof that it is not hurting business.
I can in fact offer proof that it IS hurting business. I am submitting less books than in the past because of the ridiculous turnaround time. I know several other dealers who have told me that they are subbing less and less books because of turnaround time, one of them our very own Greg Reece.
They have cut costs in the past few years (by getting rid of some of the more expensive graders), while charging more and more for a slower, less consistent service. Not to mention the ridiculous $5 per invoice surcharge.
I believe CGC is making a ton of money. They just don't want to give any of it back out.
PGX is not the answer, but if someone with some money wanted to start a grading service with some very reputable people involved, they could seriously put a hurting on CGC.
I don't wish anything bad on them, I just wish they would get their act together.
How am I supposed to offer proof it isn't hurting their business? Your "proof" is that you personally aren't submitting as many books and some other guys you talked to aren't either? Their wait times are going up. I'm just assuming here, but I would think wait times increase as they get more business, not less. Could they be getting more books in if they kept the wait times down? Yes. I never said the wait times aren't hurting business. It's a dumb argument to say that it's not. What I said was it doesn't seem like it's hurting. And as wait times continue to go up, I'd have to think that's because their submissions are increasing, not decreasing.
You say CGC is making a ton of money. Prove that.
We are all on the same side here. CGC needs to get some more graders and get the times back on schedule. What my original post was about and what irritates me is when people start shouting suggestions like it's so easy to fix. It's easy to say "buy this and hire this" when it's not your money you are spending.
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10 hour days.... Holy spoon. Don't try too hard you will burn out.
Just buy another Encapsulation Machine, add a 2nd shift, and hire more graders.
To train the new graders should be done on 2nd shift.
That's a good idea. I'm assuming you will be putting up the $ to purchase the machine, and hire a 2nd shift, and hire more graders? That's very nice of you.
CGC is a business, not a non-profit. They have to balance profits with keeping their customer base happy. With the amount of submissions they are getting, it doesn't seem like the turnaround time is hurting their business.
I once worked for a company that had 3 shifts but their was a change of management and the new managers cut it down to 1 shift 12 hour days. Their customer were very angry, because parts weren't being shipped quickly enough. BUT the new managers wanted to show profit to the board of directors ( I'm thinking a hefty bonus at the year end). Eventually the company closed down because the company lost their biggest client (Honeywell) that was 80% of their business.
I agree they need to improve their turnaround and keep customers happy. But I'm sure in the example you are referring to, the customers turned to a competitor who could provide the same or similar product. If anyone wants to start using PGX, go ahead,
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10 hour days.... Holy spoon. Don't try too hard you will burn out.
Just buy another Encapsulation Machine, add a 2nd shift, and hire more graders.
To train the new graders should be done on 2nd shift.
That's a good idea. I'm assuming you will be putting up the $ to purchase the machine, and hire a 2nd shift, and hire more graders? That's very nice of you.
CGC is a business, not a non-profit. They have to balance profits with keeping their customer base happy. With the amount of submissions they are getting, it doesn't seem like the turnaround time is hurting their business.
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I still like MTG. The almost 2 month delay on issue #2 absolutely crushed momentum.
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Um, where is Bullseye comics? I apparently need to go there and buy up some WD back issues! (If you don't see what I'm looking at, look closely at the sticker price)
First off, you need to make me, and only me, aware of auctions like this seeings that I still need this issue, and every other boardie seems to have exponentially more money than I do to spend on things like this.
I'm not your personal walking dead shopper. Do your own ebay searching. So lazy.
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interesting episode. would have been much more powerful if i had cared a whit for either of the two characters who ...
Going to disagree a tiny bit here and I think it may speak volumes for the show. Just during the last commercials, my daughter says to me, I hope ... dies, I can't stand him/her. After the very last scene my daughter is in complete disarray, bawling like a baby, saying why did they have to kill off him/her?
I thought it was bloody genius and got to me as well.
Jim
I agree. It's funny to see so many people hate a character but then they die and you immediately change your opinion. I think it was more in the way he/she died. It played him/her off as heroic and selfless which made you question your hatred.
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Um, where is Bullseye comics? I apparently need to go there and buy up some WD back issues! (If you don't see what I'm looking at, look closely at the sticker price)
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Looks like this may be another Saga type deal. Nothing above a 9.8
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Oh my God. You're mysterious.
noob.
I agree with that. May also have to do with the weather. I have 20 copies of the regular cover that are still not in my possession due to shipping delays from the hurricane.
20? nice. Out of curiosity do you generally go that big on series shaping to be hits (Revival, Saga, etc), or just Bedlam?
I have all the variants lined up on Bedlam(except Detroit), and a few pre-ordered 9.8s of the regular cover. I'm planning to sell most early on, and just keep a small amount back for later.
If it's getting some press on the boards here, I'll try to grab some copies early. With bedlam I got them ordered early at 50% off. I'll probably sell 10 right away, get my initial investment back plus some if I can, and keep the rest if it blows up. Did same with Revival but didn't order early on that. Just picked up as much as I could after I read issue #1. Same with Saga. Bedlam was my first real early early order.
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But, I would like to see this conversation end and dialogue move on to something that is less contentious. My 2 cents.
Never! Walking Dead discussions only!
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I can find more Bedlam Phantom Variants or really any of the variants online for sale than the regular cover.
Probably just a result of a greater percentage of these books being bought for the insta-flip. The regular cover probably outnumbers the total number of variants by a factor of 5 to 1.
I agree with that. May also have to do with the weather. I have 20 copies of the regular cover that are still not in my possession due to shipping delays from the hurricane.
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I think he's referring to the actual actors who play the characters. Rick and Maggie are both Brits. And I think Laurie is canadian? If not, then I'm not sure what he's talking about.
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Weeds definitely over. Ended last season. About 2 seasons too late.
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While I'm paying more foe shipping I'm having a boardie ship me my FP copies so they arrive minty fresh and not the horror stories I heard about how FP ships.
Good idea. Should've thought of that instead of waiting on my FN+ copies to arrive. I'm assuming they shipped them by folding them into an empty bottle and tossing it into the Atlantic with my name/address written on the bottle.
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Got my third eye and phantom today from Third Eye. All great condition. (thumbs u
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22 pages an issue @ $400 a page average (pure estimate) x 12 issues a year = $105,600
12 covers @ $4000 each (pure estimate) x 12 issues a year = $48,000
Not bad
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Hopefully NBC takes some of the advice listed here if they get rights to Revival. Or that Seely gets a lot of creative imput.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/showbiz/tv/walking-dead-broadcast-tv-ew/?iref=obnetwork
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I read it and think it would make a decent movie or hbo show,but no way is it the greatest thing since slice bread.
What's so great about sliced bread? I have knives. I can cut my own bread.
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So obviously there are a lot of people banking heavily on this comic and betting significant money on it's future strength in the secondary market. The question that has always troubled me about this conclusion is this: Is Bedlam too f'd up a plot to have broad demand that will keep it selling out and drive prices up in the future? I've got a little bit of cash invested in the comics, but nothing crazy, Just a few hundred bucks. My thought is that it's definitely messed up, but that the writers appear to be exploring other subject matters than than the psychopathy of the serial killer (e.g., government, politics, the criminal justice system, etc.), and that while it is definitely an adult comic so is the Walking Dead which had some insanely graphic and disturbing things, themes, etc. happen in it. What's everyone else think?
Couldn't agree more. But I think that's the point of it right, these stories are for adults who are looking for an adult read, not just us comic book hero lovers but also people who love a good story. I see it as the kind of comic I would recommend to someone who has American Psycho on their bookshelf but has never read a comic book in their life.
Having said that a small girls throat getting sliced isnt everyone's cup of tea!
Distasteful to say the least. I deleted this comic book from my Comixology account. It will never be a Walking Dead. At least with Walking Dead you cared about Rick and the other characters which can`t be said for the characters in Bedlam. I expect Bedlam to be a poor man`s Preacher at best.
I don't know. At least this happened in the first issue so no one should be shocked at future points if more effed up stuff happens. Correct me if I'm wrong since it has been a while since I read the early issues of walking dead but I believe two of Hershel's daughters has their heads cut off and some travelers tried to rape Carl.
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9 days!
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I received Bedlam FP signed variant Today. VF/NM condition. No backing boards. 3 books in 1 bag.
Can't wait to see what mine look like. Showing shipped from FP but not received yet.
How much did they end up charging you for shipping?
I ordered 5 copies and shipping was 8 pounds so whatever that translate into US.
Good price, much cheaper than having 8 comics sent to the U.K. fro the U.S.
Yeah, thought it was a decent price. However when they show up unbagged, unboarded, and bent to *spoon*, I will be very annoyed
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