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Whichever one of you mad lads dropped half a million on this one hats off. I guess you own the club now.

On 7/26/2023 at 7:08 PM, DC# said:

Went for $520k.   Two more books for the list out of Hakes (which seemed surprisingly strong for a lot of books) 

 

AsM 1 9.6 for $520.4k

AF 15 7.5 for $170.8k

 

 

That’s the thing with these books in the top grades… like I said you get the 2 right bidders, 2 people who have endless money and want the best copy that’s currently on the market and off you go. Still would have never guessed 520k. Good for the seller though, he was posting on Reddit about his dad passing, and selling to help his family during hardship. Glad he got a good price.

On 7/26/2023 at 11:26 AM, Webhead2018 said:

I envy all you who are down to just a handful. When I still need 271 more to go.

Enjoy the ride. Once you get to the end of ASM then you face the inevitable - which organs do I sell on the black market to land an AF15? I’m almost there. I think I’m good with 1 kidney, not sure if that will be enough though. 

Between this one and the restored mix up I posted a week or so ago. I really am wondering just how much of these types of errors are going out these days that we never hear about. I mean how many do you think actually get posted online? 5%? CGC has a stranglehold on the market, and have had one even though their prices are higher, even when their TAT’s were insanely long, didn’t matter… but these keep coming and this is the type of thing that can destroy the brand. I already am generally trying to buy slabs that were in the old holders if I can as I trust the process more back then and generally think the grading was more consistent, but things like this take that to a new level.

Also if any of you sleuths find the cert number or submission ID I’d love to see the book to see what it says in their system, especially if they scanned it in like they’ve been doing with all the recent subs. 

On 7/25/2023 at 11:55 PM, ExNihilo said:

LOL!  What a f'in joke.  @CGC Mike, just admit it, CGC's QC department is non-existent.  Books go from grader to encapsulation and directly to shipping.  Pretending QC exists is just embarrassing.

 

 

Beyond there being no QC there’s literally nobody even looking at the book for this to go out. Encapsulation, QC, finalizing/imaging, shipping. Anyone who even looks at this book for a second would see this. A lot of things in this thread I can see how they miss from time to time, but something like this is damning on the entire process and essentially ensures them having 0 eyes on book after grading. 

Although I will say this book’s last sale in a 9.8 was barely above case cost at $35 on eBay. So, a fill-in-your own grade is probably the only way to be profitable on the book. Not a bad score for whoever submitted. 

On 7/25/2023 at 12:57 PM, MisterMR said:

Yep. I’m crossing my fingers for $200. I saw that MCS just sold a few for around the $150 mark, so I think $200 is realistic. 

That seems high, I’m not doubting MCS got it on some but I’ve been seeing them regularly go on eBay for $90-$100 plus shipping the past week:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/385769958884

https://www.ebay.com/itm/385764122670

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134652197093

https://www.ebay.com/itm/235088893599

as more people get these back from CGC I expect the supply to outweigh demand more and more and price will come down but who knows.

Well my 1-30 isn’t nearly as nice as this but I’m now 2 books away from 1-current. Just need to pickup a 4 and a 11. The end is near. 

Been a couple years since I had to do it but I’ve always went registered and never had any issues. Although funny enough the last time I had to do it the postal clerk asked me “why do you wanted to send it registered, what is it?” I told him a comic book, and he said no you don’t want to send it registered, registered is just for high value items like stock certificates and bonds… I then told him what it was worth and he had no issue helping me. 

One thing I will say though is to photograph/scan the book heavily before sending. If anything does go wrong you want as much proof of condition as you can have.

On 7/23/2023 at 9:04 AM, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Sounds exciting!  Please keep sharing your progress, it's always fun to watch someone fill in a run.

Do you have a date range in mind for going outside the main DD run?  I'm not sure if you're focused more on Silver Age crossovers (such as ASM #16 or FF #39) or if you're talking about his modern mini-series.  If it's the latter, I'm actually thinking of selling off a lot of my modern collection and have the following if you're interested:

Daredevil:  Battlin' Jack Murdock #1-4
Daredevil:  Cage Match #1
Daredevil:  Father #1-6
Daredevil:  The Man Without Fear #1-5
Daredevil:  The Movie #1
Daredevil:  Ninja #1-3
Daredevil:  Reborn #1-4
Daredevil:  Redemption #1-6
Daredevil:  The Target #1
Daredevil:  Yellow #1-6
Daredevil by Ed Brubaker Saga #1
Daredevil Noir #1-4
Daredevil vs. Punisher #1-6
Daredevil / Deadpool Annual '97 
Daredevil / Spider-Man #1-4

Mostly I’ve been looking at crossovers up until the copper age. Crossovers in ASM, and Spectacular Spidey in particular I’ve been buying up, but eventually I may target some of the more modern mini’s. Not yet though, want to finish the main run first.

But yeah my books remaining for DD main title are: 6, 7, 10, 12-15, 23, 30, 37, 38, 43-45, 52-54, 56, 57, 62-65, 69-71, 74,  75, 77-81, 83, 86, 89, 91, 96, 98-100, 105-107, 111, 115. 

116+ I have completed. None of these are particularly rare and I know I can just go online and buy them all now but I am enjoying the hunt of finding these in the wild. 6 and 7 I’ll likely be turning to one of the auction sites but the rest I plan to find organically. 

Getting closer on my quest to collect all of DD 1-current, under 50 issues missing, but I have most of the keys. Don’t have quite the high grade in the SA books as some of you but I’m enjoying collecting DD a lot. 

My question for any of you other DD completionist is do you go after all of the DD adjacent series and one shots as well? I did not do that for my X-Men complete run as X-men side titles are infinite but DD seems plausible so I’m considering it. 

On 7/22/2023 at 6:39 AM, Gaard said:

The question all submitters should be asking themselves: How did they go from hundreds of days to warp speed?

My theory: they had a company lunch at Jimmy John’s and the lightbulb went off: 

On 7/21/2023 at 6:09 AM, Sigur Ros said:

Yes, the employees are missing things.  Lots and lots (and lots) of things.  But as they are so often very obvious things I can only imagine it's the management creating the struggle. They are probably just overloaded with work and need help....that they aren't getting.

So it's most likely overloaded employees or horrible training.

One or the other.

Yep. I’m not saying these things didn’t happen before, they did, but ever since the blackstone takeover and the grading process went from hundreds of days to warp speed these problems seem to have become more frequent. This is likely the cost of pressure on staff to move at lightning speed coupled with new staff thrown into the fire if I had to guess.

On 7/16/2023 at 2:35 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

I wonder if anyone is out there scratching their head after receiving their 4.5 book back in a 1.5 slab? 

For the record it’s not my book, I just posted it. It’s for sale on eBay though https://www.ebay.com/itm/305027018486

The owner isn’t being deceptive about the resto and judging by the number of books they’re selling they don’t seem new to this hobby, so I’d guess they were surprised by everything even in the description the owner says it’s “baffling”. 

Not the best look for CGC to have this one sitting out there on eBay. 

On 7/15/2023 at 10:43 PM, thehumantorch said:

All of the drama aside the one thing I can't get past or forgive is spending customers money before it's earned.  It should be held in trust until the work is done and the customer is happy.

And Hero, you've mentioned this thread is killing any chance of saving your business, but this is your mess, the customers have been scrwewed, sooner or later someone was gonna make this public.  It may hurt but it's the truth and your customers and prospective customers deserve to hear it.  How could we just sit back and ignore this and let more people send in books and money and potentially enjoy the same fate?

Yep. This is the real reason this thread is 40+ pages long. If he held their money and didn’t spend it until the books were shipped back with services rendered he’d not have had much issue. Most people would have been sympathetic to a small business on hard times and been okay with the hassle if they were refunded in full plus unfinished books back. But when you spend the money before the work is done that’s no longer an option, and then you compound the problem by mocking your customers in a public forum (likely the same in private). This community is actually pretty forgiving but you can’t treat people that way and expect to get away with it.

I hope everyone gets their books back. The money may well take months to years to it never happens with a chapter 7 though. 

A 4.5 seems generous, but even more generous is the blue label. 

On 7/14/2023 at 3:47 PM, Dr. Balls said:

I'm not trying to be purposefully insensitive here, but what kind of strenuous physical work is involved in doing restoration on a comic book?

I don’t know but it definitely seems less strenuous than trying to maintain a chicken coop. 

On 7/13/2023 at 1:41 PM, Webhead2018 said:

I need 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 22 24 27 28 29 30 31 33 34 35 36 37 38 41 42 43 44 47 48 49 50 53 57 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 70 71 72 73 74 76 77 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 89 90 92 93 94  96 98 99 101 104 105 106 107 108 110 111 112 113 114 116 117 118 119 121 124 125 126 127 129 131 133 135 138 139 140 141 143 145 146 147 151 152 153 154 161 162 164 165 166 167 168 170 171 173 174 175 179 180 181 183 184 186 187 188189 190 202 203 207 208 209 211 213 214 215 216 217 220 221 223 225 226 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 239 240 241 242 245 247 248 249 251 253 255 256 257 259 260 262 263 264 266 267 268 269 271 272 273 271 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 288 290 291 292 293 294 295 297 299 301 302 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 344 346 347 348 349 352 353 354 356 357 358 359 360 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 379 381 382 383 384 385 388 389

I don’t envy you. I’m down to 3 books left: 1, 4, 11. I’m looking to add a 1 this year… but I got most of mine 10+ years ago when you could actually find filler issues for $5 or less.

On 7/14/2023 at 9:43 AM, Kamenliter said:

He did have a Go Fund Me (not sure if it’s still up) trying to raise $120 or $160k for a stake in the company. AFAIK it has raised $20.

Running this by my financial advisor now to see if I can swing it. Stand by. 

On 7/14/2023 at 7:23 AM, Hero Restoration said:

More chickens.

Yeah that’s illegal my guy. Hopefully those baby chickens got bail money for you. 

On 7/14/2023 at 6:41 AM, Hero Restoration said:

I thought why try, no good deed. I really didn't like sending them out that way, but he pressured very hard, and they weren't a quick fix.

Okay, so did you also send him his money back since you’re admitting to not performing the service he paid for? Or did you just use it to buy more baby chickens?