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Think of the possibilities....and all for just $7.95.

Image of one side of said package in question….

Well, exactly, if you see 4 spine ticks and a roughed up corner in the image but the book is 9.8 with no grader notes, you have to know something is amiss. Caveat Emptor!

Isn't that how the scam was discovered, people started noticing the book didn't match the grader notes for said certification number?

...and, did you get a resolution to your inquiry?

Yes, and both were happening at almost the same time. Related or just an amazing coincidence? Will we ever know the real truth and if there are any other scams and compromises going on that are still in the shadows that no one is savvy too yet? Tune in next week for the next episode of "Mystery Bullet Theatre".

I have only had one book come back graded less than their raw grade out of probably 25+ books I have bought from them and then graded and that one came back one full grade point lower than advertised (7.0 vs 8.0). I've had 2 or 3 get 9.6's graded at VF+ or VF/NM. Most others have hit right on the mark or the next grade level higher. Of course, there may be bias on my part of only sending in the books that I thought looked as good or better than their grade too. I have sent a few back that I believed were too far off the mark for my preferences. Never had a problem with their customer service and communication.

I didn't even know it was flower (some consider a weed) until I read the origin of name for the character.

I honestly thought it was this, not knowing it was actually called "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Can you imagine my embarrassment if I was a contestant on Jeopardy and wrote "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" instead?

I think the other contestant said "A Tale of Two Cities".

Last night's final Jeopardy question was "Stan Lee said the alias-using title character of this novel set during the French Revolution “was the 1st super-hero I…read about”. The answer was "The Scarlet Pimpernel". Even though I had heard about "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in passing, I never knew much about it except that the great Daffy Duck cartoon "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" was some kind of parody of it. This Jeopardy question of course piqued my curiosity about it and was shocked to find the stage play and subsequent novel was the first to set the pattern for the superhero genre years down the road with all the double life/secret identity and calling card tropes we are all now familiar with but were virtually unheard of before this. I found it was a novel written by Baroness Emma Orczy and first published in 1905 but this novel was based on the very successful stage play she and her husband had written a few years earlier. I am both floored and embarrassed about how through all my literary travels over the years this information has escaped me, especially since I have been a comic book aficionado most of my life. Am I the only one who somehow let this slip through the cracks in my life? For more info into this story here's a link to an article about it and how it relates the superhero genre; one of many such stories you can find. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/09/batman-wonder-woman-black-widow-worlds-first-superhero-scarlet-pimpernel-orczy

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We had this discussion at my work a few weeks ago about what we thought were the most important things in running a business both for the customers and the work force and “communication” was consistently at the top of the the responses. Most sited being ignored or lack of a timely response as being big turn-offs in the communication dept. that projects a lack of courtesy along with a disrespect for other people’s time and concerns.

@Hudson Once again, if you don't think you are getting a timely response, call them directly or send an email. One of the few businesses that most of the time an actual person answers the phone (after going through the prompts of course). Just last week I emailed them about an outstanding payment on an auction item they sold for me back in early December. I got a satisfactory detailed response to that email in less than 2 hours.

Some of the books offered on their site are consignment items that they don't own or have possession of. On those books it's up to the owner to respond to your offer through their site. What I don't like is that the listings on their site make no discernment of what items are theirs or are being offered by consignors. If you don't get a response to an offer, I'd call customer service to press them on the issue to find out what's going on. I have usually gotten very prompt responses when I have reached out to them directly.

Wow, sorry to hear that. Thanks for the update. Here's to you djpinkpanther67.

I went out for a drive!

This copy of Flash #105 sold last night on Heritage for $4,400. That's about $1,000 higher than the last several sales and the highest for this grade since 2017 (at least from the sources I could find). However, you go to a 7.0 and there have been no sales below $5,000 since 2015. I would have liked to have had this copy because of the date stamp on the cover, but this is a little too saucy for me as this book had a pretty strong result. Congrats to whoever won it.

This is one of my favorites because of the inventive way they go out of their way to tell you it's a villain crossover.

Maybe the perp managed to get ahold of some "virgin" slabs somehow (either by someone inside of CGC or their supplier) and with their own sonic welder was able to pull off this deception, no?