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Wow, I'm speechless. I know you have faith. It's my belief that everything, literally EVERYTHING happens for a reason and there is a lesson in it all. Reach out any time.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $4000 shipping included

Amazing Spider-man #238 CGC 9.6 White pages Asking $1000 shipping included SOLD!

Shipping: Certified books, shipping is included FREE within North America, ROW we split it. Raw books, include $10 for shipping within North America. ROW I will split with interested parties.  Who wins: Time stamp seals the deal as to who wins regardless of the form of communication (including PM, in the thread, text or phone conversation). A negotiation is not a deal until both sides have agreed on terms. If there is an unconditional posted (or communicated) it will trump all negotiations unless we have already both agreed to terms before the was posted. In that case, the will have been in vain. Except that it will give you street cred and look cool to passers by. No House Of Shame or Probationary members or any others of ill repute. Returns: I am considered a very good grader among my peers ( Here is a link to my kudos thread ) but since even CGC is inconsistent I will not guarantee a CGC grade. I will guarantee to be within one grade increment in either direction - so if I am calling the book a 9.4 it could go 9.2 or 9.6. If it falls outside of those parameters (and it does happen that they go in both directions), I will offer a refund. But I don't expect anyone to complain if I undergraded it. I will accept returns if item is otherwise not as described. Consider all books pressed. Pricing: I try to price books close to fair market value. I am open to offers but it's not very likely I'm going to be accepting offers at 30% off fair market value.

Now I'm going to go for lunch! I have to scan the rest of the books from the list above so be back later. I also will be posting a TMNT #2 CGC 9.8 and an ASM #238 CGC 9.6 in the CA/MA Marketplace

Eerie #1 CGC 5.5 White pages (1951) Avon - gorgeous, bright copy Asking $2500 shipping included

Joe Palooka Fights His Way Back #nn CGC 9.8 OW - This is a giveaway and a CGC 9.8 from 1945! Asking $450 shipping included

Fantastic Four #145 CGC 9.8 OWW Asking $450 shipping included

Thanks for the heads up! Also, I'm going to edit my post AND admit I made a mistake.

No, just making some last minute edits. I just posted a list at the top of the thread. I'll get some scans up and THEN go for lunch.

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OK, gang, I have a batch of books to put up for sale. The 1st two books are previously unsold books. The market has moved a lot in the last few months so there may be renewed interest in these books. This is the entire list. I will post scans as I can. Fantastic Four #145 CGC 9.8 OWW - Asking $450 shipping included Joe Palooka Fights His Way Back #nn CGC 9.8 OW - a CGC 9.8 from 1945! This is a giveaway - Asking $450 shipping included ---------------------------------------------------------------------- And these are fresh books that I will be listing. Amazing Adventures #2 CGC 7.0 OWW (I previously graded this a raw 7.5) - Asking $300 shipping included SOLD! Amazing Spider-man #94 CGC 9.6 OWW - Asking $575 shipping included SOLD! Amazing Spider-man #109 CGC 9.6 OW - Asking $280 shipping included SOLD! Avengers Annual #3 CGC 9.8 OWW - Asking $550 shipping included SOLD! Captain Marvel #29 CGC 9.6 OWW - Asking $350 shipping included Daredevil #113 CGC 9.8 White (1st appearance of Death-Stalker) - Asking $500 shipping included SOLD! DC Comics Presents #26 CGC 9.8 White - Asking $1000 shipping included Eerie #1 CGC 5.5 White pages (1951) Avon - Asking $2500 shipping included Marvel Super-Heroes #12 CGC 8.0 OW - Asking $400 shipping included (looks much nicer) X-men #112 CGC 9.8 White - Asking $500 shipping included X-men #134 CGC 9.8 White - Asking $650 shipping included SOLD!

Shipping: Certified books, shipping is included FREE within North America, ROW we split it. Raw books, include $10 for shipping within North America. ROW I will split with interested parties.  Who wins: Time stamp seals the deal as to who wins regardless of the form of communication (including PM, in the thread, text or phone conversation). A negotiation is not a deal until both sides have agreed on terms. If there is an unconditional posted (or communicated) it will trump all negotiations unless we have already both agreed to terms before the was posted. In that case, the will have been in vain. Except that it will give you street cred and look cool to passers by. No House Of Shame or Probationary members or any others of ill repute. Returns: I am considered a very good grader among my peers ( Here is a link to my kudos thread ) but since even CGC is inconsistent I will not guarantee a CGC grade. I will guarantee to be within one grade increment in either direction - so if I am calling the book a 9.4 it could go 9.2 or 9.6. If it falls outside of those parameters (and it does happen that they go in both directions), I will offer a refund. But I don't expect anyone to complain if I undergraded it. I will accept returns if item is otherwise not as described. Consider all books pressed. Pricing: I try to price books close to fair market value. I am open to offers but it's not very likely I'm going to be accepting offers at 30% off fair market value.

Man, this thread brings back some memories. When most people were still friends.

One book left at 20% off. As soon as Ternak becomes announced in a movie this will be everyone's favorite villain and it will be a $4000 book!

SOLD!

I appreciate that. One of the reasons I'm peeved about grading inconsistency is it also affects my own raw sales. If you remember that my raw sales thread from June, all of the books i sold were very tightly graded by me but if CGC is going through a tighter period, that means that books that I sold in various grades may not get the advertised grades on some submissions. And that doesn't mean that my grades were 'wrong'. It's frustrating.

Take 20% off these remaining books! Final discount.

Gang, this will be my final discount here. Take 20% off of these remaining books! --------------------------------------------------- Fantastic Four #145 CGC 9.8 OWW - Asking $450 shipping included Giant-Size Chillers #1 (1974) CGC 9.6 OWW - Origin and 1st app Lilith - Asking $650 shipping included Joe Palooka Fights His Way Back #nn CGC 9.8 OW - a CGC 9.8 from 1945! This is a giveaway - Asking $450 Marvel Chillers #1 CGC 9.8 OWW - 1st app of Modred The Mystic - Asking $500 shipping included X-men #96 CGC 9.8 OWW - Asking $1250 shipping included X-men #134 CGC 9.8 OWW - 1st Dark Phoenix - Asking $650 shipping included

Sure, but it makes it tough to run a business when you're relying on consistency. If I'm resubmitting CGC books after having them pressed and MUCH improved and they still stay the same grade, then you KNOW there is a problem and that it's not just my opinion. And I realize that pressing alone doesn't guarantee and improved the grade but the reason I mentioned some of my results up there in that last post is to show that I DO KNOW how to grade. So it's results that I'm getting back AFTER improving a previously CGC graded book AND screening it carefully myself that I really really scratch my head at. Based on how there seems to be an inconsistency between batches and not actual time periods I think it may be a group of graders that some are tighter than others.

Don't worry, it's not politics until I post in a thread.

So I've submitted quite a few invoices in the last few weeks and have had some interesting results. I had a very strict invoice a few weeks ago where I stated that the majority of books did not get the expected grades. I felt that the grading was extremely tight on this invoice. Then i had another few invoices come back exactly as expected with a small portion of books that didn't reach the desired grade but most did. I submitted one invoice with 9 books - ALL books were potential CGC 9.9 candidates (yes, you read that right) and I got 5 out of 9 possible CGC 9.9 books. Then I submitted one LONE walkthrough expecting to get a 9.4 / 9.6 - the book was a CGC 9.2 with a TON of improvements made on the book and should have graded higher than the old CGC 9.2 grade this time around - and the book came back a CGC 9.2 again. I just scratch my head and don't get it.