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If it is only a small step between the 9.6 and the 9.8, I’ll often buy the 9.8. But not when it hundreds of dollars different. Given I often can’t spot the flaws between the 9.6 and the 9.8 in a slab, I’d literally only be spending the money for what CGC had written on the label. For example, when I wanted to pick up a 1st Batman Who Laughs the 9.6 was $190 and the 9.8 was $780. I 100% went for the 9.6 without a second thought. I used the money saved to pick up a sweet bronze book for my personal collection. 

I hate it. 
 

A good point that is well made!
The census data you have shared above represents effectively 1% of ComicChron's estimated print-run. 
My post was way too minimal in effort - when I said "criminally undervalued", what I really meant was "it's the only 1st app of a Batman character widely available in 9.8 for less than US$499 on eBay that I have seen".  One of my focuses is 1st apps of Bat-related villains. In the past two years in particular (like nearly every typical or mainstream category/focus in the hobby, I guess) it's become nearly impossible to get a 9.8 of a modern book featuring the 1st app of a minor character for less than US$500 (and currency conversion is not my friend). So I was very surprised, given all that hyyyyype for Hush back in the day, to see Tommy Elliot's 1st app regularly priced between $150 and $175. 
 

I hate it. 
 

If it is only a small step between the 9.6 and the 9.8, I’ll often buy the 9.8. But not when it hundreds of dollars different. Given I often can’t spot the flaws between the 9.6 and the 9.8 in a slab, I’d literally only be spending the money for what CGC had written on the label. For example, when I wanted to pick up a 1st Batman Who Laughs the 9.6 was $190 and the 9.8 was $780. I 100% went for the 9.6 without a second thought. I used the money saved to pick up a sweet bronze book for my personal collection. 

Definitely a bug and it does sound like one that would be beyond typical support tooling - leaving them no option than to escalate to level 3 or level 4 engineering for resolution.
But there is definitely a customer service issue. From what Wall-Crawler has written above, this sounds like an embarrassing display of service management for a company of eBay’s resources and size. It says a LOT about what they value and how their teams are being managed.
Instead of each instance of account suspension being treated as an individual incident and closed when the account is manually re-enabled, these should be being grouped as a problem (it’s obviously not resolved). There should be a singular point of contact where Wall-Crawler can communicate back and forth with the customer service team and be provided updates to the problem resolution. Ideally, this will be managed by an agent or a small team of agents - not requiring their customer to re-explain the issue at each point of contact. Their team should be assisting in restoring the store and all listings or providing tips and work-arounds for a quicker restoration when this happens for the fifth time… (Which I think is a safe bet at this point, sorry to say. It’s some kind of dunning process being triggered periodically by an incorrect debt recorded against the account. Manually re-enabling the account is not removing the dodgy record that is triggering the dunning process). 
It’s obvious that, while individuals in the team might care - the internal structure and supporting processes don’t support them in providing customer care. I understand - many products/services/service providers make it difficult to log a ticket, because managing tickets is complicated and expensive. It is far cheaper to have someone engage in self-help. You don’t have to handle as many tickets, so you don’t have to hire, train, retain, and insure so many customer care representatives. 
But even if that is (in my opinion) a (barely) OK approach, it doesn’t make up for poor service management practices from a company that reported more than US$2.1B in revenue in the second quarter of 2021. 
I would be freaking furious if I were you, Wall-Crawler. I think you’re 100% justified in being peeved by this and the difficulty in escalating this issue. Losing your account four times in three months and what that represents in lost sales and loss of time in re-listing items and chasing support to end-up not feeling supported. It’s just not cool at all. 

Definitely a bug and it does sound like one that would be beyond typical support tooling - leaving them no option than to escalate to level 3 or level 4 engineering for resolution.
But there is definitely a customer service issue. From what Wall-Crawler has written above, this sounds like an embarrassing display of service management for a company of eBay’s resources and size. It says a LOT about what they value and how their teams are being managed.
Instead of each instance of account suspension being treated as an individual incident and closed when the account is manually re-enabled, these should be being grouped as a problem (it’s obviously not resolved). There should be a singular point of contact where Wall-Crawler can communicate back and forth with the customer service team and be provided updates to the problem resolution. Ideally, this will be managed by an agent or a small team of agents - not requiring their customer to re-explain the issue at each point of contact. Their team should be assisting in restoring the store and all listings or providing tips and work-arounds for a quicker restoration when this happens for the fifth time… (Which I think is a safe bet at this point, sorry to say. It’s some kind of dunning process being triggered periodically by an incorrect debt recorded against the account. Manually re-enabling the account is not removing the dodgy record that is triggering the dunning process). 
It’s obvious that, while individuals in the team might care - the internal structure and supporting processes don’t support them in providing customer care. I understand - many products/services/service providers make it difficult to log a ticket, because managing tickets is complicated and expensive. It is far cheaper to have someone engage in self-help. You don’t have to handle as many tickets, so you don’t have to hire, train, retain, and insure so many customer care representatives. 
But even if that is (in my opinion) a (barely) OK approach, it doesn’t make up for poor service management practices from a company that reported more than US$2.1B in revenue in the second quarter of 2021. 
I would be freaking furious if I were you, Wall-Crawler. I think you’re 100% justified in being peeved by this and the difficulty in escalating this issue. Losing your account four times in three months and what that represents in lost sales and loss of time in re-listing items and chasing support to end-up not feeling supported. It’s just not cool at all. 

Assuming you are looking to eventually flip, I would say any book that sells for $250 or less in 9.8, go with the 9.8. $250+ is 9.6s and lower begin to close the gap.

I'm sure Marvel has a whole committee of people to come up with dumb things like this.

No idea about the in-story justification or whether or not Disney mandated it but it absolutely makes sense if you're wanting to distance yourself from the people/groups that appropriated the logo.  
But I gotta say - I hate it.  I don't know if it's because I'm so used to the original logo or what, but man...it looks like a bad Magic the Gathering expansion symbol.  

I don't start threads here too often, but I have decided to share my tale of woe with the community here in case anyone else is experiencing the same issue I am with eBay.
Long story short, since about mid-January 2022, I have been locked in a vicious cycle with eBay of trying to get them to resolve a "system glitch" that keeps restricting and suspending my account. 
Basically, for whatever reason, I have been told that their billing system has been restricting my selling privileges and even suspending my account for non-payment. However (and this has been confirmed by eBay), I have always been up to date on my payments. For some reason this "glitch" keeps "flagging" that I "owe" just under $230, however, this was paid in September 2021 (and confirmed by eBay). According to a recent chat with an eBay agent this is a "known site issue that some members have reported".  Apparently my account has been added to the ticket so "they" know my account is being affected by it". 
The problem is, this vicious cycle of restriction, suspension, then reinstatement keeps happening, as recently as yesterday. Every time my account is restricted and/or suspended I have to call eBay (and getting an agent on the phone is not as easy these days). Then, once my account is reinstated, eBay has to do something on their end to allow me to relist the items that were canned when my account was incorrectly suspended. I have wasted hours on the phone with them and online. I have lost watchers and likely sales and my account is yo-yoing between active and non-active, which will impact my seller performance. Today, my account was suspended for I think the third or fourth time in just under three months. I had to chat with an agent this evening to hopefully get my listings back up. This particular agent referred me to an email address that is no longer valid (resolve@ebay.com) and literally had no clue what they were doing and said I would have to try to speak to a live person tomorrow and ended the chat. 
I have been a member since 2006 and a Top Rated Seller for several years now. There have been some seemingly decent agents but it blows my mind they can't actually fix this problem after nearly three months. The "work around" for me to keep calling every time I'm restricted/suspended is brutal. To me, it seems eBay has gone out of their way to create a system to limit members ability to "elevate" their concerns to a supervisor or complaints department or whatever to get an actual resolution if it does not involve the basics of buying or selling. I have also found the competency levels between agents can vary drastically and I have reached out to eBay on their site and Facebook (I don't use Twitter). It is just all so incredibly frustrating. 
I know many of you will say "screw eBay" (and believe me I have thought about it) and sell here, send graded books to auctions houses, etc., and I get that there are other options, especially for graded books, but I have spent years on eBay cultivating a customer base and no disrespect to any other venues, but I think I would be hard pressed to find a better venue than eBay at the moment where I could sell myself and actually move raw books, sets and especially raw non-key books. And I don't feel like starting over there either.
Anyway, thanks for listening/reading but if anyone else is experiencing or has experienced a similar issue and had it resolved or a super secret complaints number, I would appreciate any information or insight on how to deal with eBay's "customer service" and actually get to a manager/supervisor or proper complaints department (should they have one) to get this thing resolved.

A good point that is well made!
The census data you have shared above represents effectively 1% of ComicChron's estimated print-run. 
My post was way too minimal in effort - when I said "criminally undervalued", what I really meant was "it's the only 1st app of a Batman character widely available in 9.8 for less than US$499 on eBay that I have seen".  One of my focuses is 1st apps of Bat-related villains. In the past two years in particular (like nearly every typical or mainstream category/focus in the hobby, I guess) it's become nearly impossible to get a 9.8 of a modern book featuring the 1st app of a minor character for less than US$500 (and currency conversion is not my friend). So I was very surprised, given all that hyyyyype for Hush back in the day, to see Tommy Elliot's 1st app regularly priced between $150 and $175. 
 

With 9.8 or higher more than 3x the 9.6 pop and more on the way with everyone like me now sending in their many copies, my opinion is the book is near it's ceiling.  A lot more of these will hit the census and market  this year.. The question is is how much it hold it's gains hold over the next 3-6 months. Please note I am NOT referring to the newsstand. 
Something some here may forget in Dec 2002/Jan 2003 when this book hit the shops  "Hush"  had huge hype. Shops ordered it in great quantities.  Collectors like me were purchasing 5-10 copies. The light color background means a lot of 9.8's  I would not be surprised if 1 year from now the 9.8 population is in 4 figures. I'd say sooner but not with current TAT's
While I do want and am rooting you to be right,  as i could trade (I don't sell comics but never say never) 4 of my 5 almost certain  9.8 copies for a nice Bronze or Silver age book, logically I do not think it will grow all that much. In this case whether I'm right or you are its win-win for me
Again this post does not refer to the newsstand edition.
Books CGC Label CGC Total Avg. Grade 10 9.9 9.8 9.6 9.4 9.2 9.0 8.5 8.0 7.5 7.0 6.5 6.0 5.5 5.0 4.5 4.0 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.8 1.5 1.0 0.5  1. Batman 609 (1/03, D.C. Comics)
            1st appearance of Tommy Elliot (Hush). Poison Ivy & Huntress appearance. Universal 1,031 9.68   3 690 209 64 27 25 7 3   2 1                        

Stoked to add this Frankie’s exclusive Dell’Otto Variant C to the collection. Massive shout out to @Blankedboy who knew I was struggling to find this and put me onto a seller. I’m now only missing the DF signed & remarked by Ken Haeser variant #1 and I think I’ve got the whole run. (Or will by end of April anyway). Thanks mate!!

Cover is kind of cool too (at least, I think so).
This was definitely supposed to be the case, but I found a shop online that was selling them for $4 each when they released, so I bought two copies from them. I don't think they were supposed to be sold separately.
Cover:

Meanwhile.....at CGC...

Does anyone know anything about Something Is Killing The Children (Eighth Printing), and why there are 3,500+ CGC graded copies?
http://www.cgcdata.com/cgc/search/isolateid/242949
The value of a CGC 9.8 is roughly $40, with recent sales as low as $28, according to GPAnalysis. It seems like the cost of slabbing and shipping to/from CGC, then fees associated with selling would be greater than net sales.
That's $100,000+ in slabbing/shipping costs for 3,500+ copies of the eighth print of a book that isn't worth the cost of slabbing and reselling.
The CGC Census notes the cover as a "surprise variant".  OK... surprise!  It's worthless! 
What gives?

I would rather have the Ultimate Fallout #4 (1st Print) in a 9.6. 

Historically, this wouldn't even be a question, since "1st is 1st" usually meant that the 1st print was at least a month earlier than the 2nd printing and the cover art was identical anyway.
When it comes to Ultimate Fallout #4, the 1st printings and 2nd printings arrived in the same month, which isn't like 2nd printings in the past.
Additionally, the 2nd printings show MIles' face on the cover, while the 1st printings do not.
So, if Ultimate Fallout #4 2nd printings were from the same month and actually show the new character's face, they have two things that "traditional" 2nd printings don't.
That doesn't make up for the fact that they're 2nd printings, but it does separate them from what is normally meant by "1st is 1st".
Ultimate Fallout #4 2nd printing should be compared (at least briefly) to Captain Marvel (2013) #17 2nd print - which shows a new character on the cover when the 1st print doesn't.
Obviously, it's not the same thing because Ultimate Fallout #4 1st print shows Miles Morales in costume on the cover, but there are dozens of "new costume" Spider-Man books in the past five decades that always had Peter Parker inside.
The first time we know, for sure, from the cover of the book that someone else is in this particular new Spider-Man costume is on the 2nd printing.  That's not the same as Kamala Khan on Captain Marvel #17 2nd printing, but it's not completely unlike it either.
Take those facts about the 2nd printings in combination with how many fewer copies of the 2nd printing exist (released the same month, a few weeks later), and this isn't your standard "1st printing vs. the 2nd printing months later with the exact same cover".

The whole series is available as a Comixology Original, which is where I read it first. 
it’s not a bad little mini, interesting concept but the overall story/characters are a little thin. It definitely feels like a pitch for a movie or tv series though.
I liked it enough to that I’m picking up the physical issues.

I didn't see anything posted here yet so I figured I would start a thread.
New series from Dark Horse is set to release March 23, 2022 from Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, and Jonathan Glapion.  I'm particularly excited due to their work together on Dark Nights: Metal.
https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3009-888/We-Have-Demons-1

An early birthday present from my missus arrived today :

Mr Knight arrived
 
 

Batman 609 is criminally undervalued book. Was shocked to see its price a couple of weeks ago and pulled the trigger on a copy last week. Very glad I got in before the storm. 
Edit: just checked MCS - all the copies on consignment are up _significantly_ since I was there Friday (US Thursday evening). 

An early birthday present from my missus arrived today :