Jiminy_Cricket-migration

Alibaba did great out of the gate. Personally a Chinese company that is run in very secretive manner is a big worry for me. Eventually I think Wall Street with see that too.

 

Its going to do very well, but Disney is a much better attractive company for the price currently long term.

CGC could cut their prices in half, get the turnaround times back to pre-2009 levels

 

This seems pretty transparent to me!

What's so transparent?

Sorry to burst your bubble, Brittany...

But, you guys have had that page on Facebook for years.

Here's m thread to draw up interest of it way back when.

Do You "Like" CGC? From what I saw at the beginning, it was just a majority of posts of the "good 'ol book of the day".

Instead of posting pics of you guys at cons, talking with customers, talking about your hobbies (I don't know? Making beer, collecting Nancy Drew books or being a ninja master... something!). You guys did nothing, that showed your personalities to bond with members on here and just appeared to look like a faceless corporation, just out to grade 3 million books.

Facebook's for friends and family. You guys chose to be nothing but a service at the time and now you want to us to share with you... now?

Welcome to the boards by the way.

 

It's Friday Night, folks!

 

 

 

Hey Fellow Comic Collectors and Dealers,

 

CGC is now on Facebook and we are doing big things in Social Media. We would love for everyone that is on the boards to bring their knowledge, passion, and intensity for comics over to our Facebook page. We are monitoring it all the time and will answer questions and interact with posts you make. We want to know what you are thinking, pictures of new books you received, we want to be involved with what is going on with the largest group of collectors in the industry. Come follow our page and we really look forward to seeing what you will all bring to the table.

 

...and I'll double your (shrug) on what point you are trying to get across.

Feels like to me, but I'll just say,

From what I got from her original post was that they are trying social media again after they failed before (imho) and they were ignoring that fact. What's to say they won't blow it off again, due to lack of interest, being too busy or even laziness was my original point. For me, maybe not you (you might go to more conventions than me or actually have personal phone numbers), I really know absolutely nothing about the people that work there being as isolated as I am. I'm not asking for family or wedding pictures or really seriously personal stuff, but something hobby-comic related to associate with them before I would consider sharing my "CGC Happy Moments" with them too. Is that more clearer?

 

I'll admit, I always wanted to say "It's Friday Night" on a Friday again though. It's where I felt this thread was going before my post.

I'm just saying Brittany had me fooled into thinking this CGC FB page was a new thing. That's all.

I wonder what the next domino to fall will be. We've had expanded tier and now social media. I'm hoping they decide to "now improve TAT's" because they want to be an industry leader......blah blah blah

Well, let's see.....

They could do away with BS fees like submission forms, graders notes, etc.

They could make the tiers less expensive.

They could make membership free.

They could make their submission process easier.

They could put graders notes on the back of the label.

They could improve their Quality Control.

They could be more engaging to the people that buy their product.

They could actually get books back to people in their stated TATs, or be open, transparent, and honest when things go wrong.

They could pay for return shipping on any defective slabs and offer "heavy discounts" on current and future submissions.

They could actually participate in the promotion of this great hobby, like say, by attending the High Grade Collectors' Meeting in Atlanta Sept. 28th and speaking to their customers.

Oh, there's much more, but we don't want to overwhelm CGC too much right away. Let's see how long it takes them to get started on these suggestions. Maybe they can be proactive and get it done before someone else comes along and does it.

Hasn't CGC been on FB for years?

Look who just caught up.

Sorry to burst your bubble, Brittany...

But, you guys have had that page on Facebook for years.

Here's m thread to draw up interest of it way back when.

Do You "Like" CGC? From what I saw at the beginning, it was just a majority of posts of the "good 'ol book of the day".

Instead of posting pics of you guys at cons, talking with customers, talking about your hobbies (I don't know? Making beer, collecting Nancy Drew books or being a ninja master... something!). You guys did nothing, that showed your personalities to bond with members on here and just appeared to look like a faceless corporation, just out to grade 3 million books.

Facebook's for friends and family. You guys chose to be nothing but a service at the time and now you want to us to share with you... now?

Welcome to the boards by the way.

 

It's Friday Night, folks!

 

 

Hey Fellow Comic Collectors and Dealers,

 

CGC is now on Facebook and we are doing big things in Social Media. We would love for everyone that is on the boards to bring their knowledge, passion, and intensity for comics over to our Facebook page. We are monitoring it all the time and will answer questions and interact with posts you make. We want to know what you are thinking, pictures of new books you received, we want to be involved with what is going on with the largest group of collectors in the industry. Come follow our page and we really look forward to seeing what you will all bring to the table.

pictures of new books you received

 

Inserts joke about TAT's being way longer than should be.

 

We can posts books with "puddling" back cover plastic?

Sure, if you can wait a year to get them back from CGC.

Chanos warns of China risk as Alibaba begins trade

No 1 risk for investing in Alibaba is Chinese politics

Who feels comfortable giving their credit card info to the Chinese?

RAK - some nice Bronze Age Spidey readers for someone special...

 

 

Peace,

 

Chip

What are the grades on these?

Just got home to see the followup offer. Don't take this the wrong way, I know absolutely nothing about any of those books in the followup offer, so I could use some community feedback on whether or not that's good or if I should veto.

 

Again don't take this like I am implying it might be a bad offer, I don't know anything about any of those options at all. PM me or post in the thread if you have feedback, thanks.

+ 1 Is it worth the cost of shipping overseas?

I already have the Maidens.

So that Techie doesn't loose a day while the guy decides, I would say his offer is still officially up for grabs in case anyone else is looking to grab those.

 

It's 3 or 4 am over there, why not give him a few hours to respond before trying to void his claim?

 

I don't think there's an issue with the losing a day - it's a good offer for this kind of thread.

 

 

Because he never officially claimed it. If he was worried about shipping, the appropriate thing to do is pm him ahead of time. You are wrong about losing a day not mattering because it could cause Techvoodoo to get a strike.

+ 1

+ 1

Yeah, I can't see anyone shipping a set of encyclopedias overseas. Just google what you wanna know.

Modern RAK:

 

30 recent books for your reading pleasure. I think 30 books will fit in the box so that is what you get for free. No pictures but all books listed will be included:

 

BlackAcre

1

6

 

Bongo Comics

Free Comic Day

 

Infinity

Free Comic Day

 

Hail Hydra Captain America

2

 

Grifter

1

 

Avengers:

#1 (2010)

#1 (2012)

#10 (2 different version)

#17

#21

#22

 

Secrets Avengers

10

16

 

Fear Itself

5

 

Avengers Arena

7

 

Clone

2

 

Avatar The Last Airbender

Free Book Day

 

Stumptown

3

 

Transformers Generation 1

#3

#4

 

Spiderman Adventures

1

 

Hobgoblin Lives

3

 

Spiderman Lost Years

1

2

 

Spiderman Power of Terror

4

 

Uncanny X-Men

540

541

542

543

 

I'll start giving them away elsewhere if no one wants some reading material. I'll keep em up until Wednesday.

I have to get some unwanted comics out to give to the kiddies on Halloween. Thanks for reminding me. (thumbs u

This thread is just so full of awesomeness.

I found the comic discussion forum on E-Bay and people kept talking about the evil CGC.

There's a new one opening up soon. I think Steve Borock said it would be another month or two.

I googled "CAHokie sucks" and here I am.

 

I never really understood what that icon means. Is it a smirk?

Just bumping the thread. Do you always have ..... aww forget it.

If Chip likes it then I dont!

Yup I'll just admire my new Kirby books and be happy

I still have a huge amount of art to give away without ever licking up a pen again

There's part of your problem right there.