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What bothers me about videos like this is that they sound authoritarian and lots of people might agree with him and yet he is factually incorrect.

I don't think less of them either. I just don't understand why all the hate. Whether it's in a slab or not in a slab it's the same comic

Our LCS had one on the wall about 10 years ago. Sat there for a week or two before someone shelled out about $4500 for it. I think it was like a VG+ or a VG/F or something along those lines. Great looking copy though. It was very pretty for the grade.

Where was it auctioned previously? Do you have links?

Heavier inking. Sinnott?

Kirby dots! Where was this?

I'd be more interested in reading the letter above it where they talk about the Vulgate! Do you have it?

Do you see a pattern forming here? Upgradeable CGC 7.0 goes for a record price. Maybe I have some idea of what I'm talking about? GPA shows a copy @ $65K in Nov 2016 but I don't think that is when this copy sold. Do you know when that copy sold? It must have been an old sale as there is no date listed on the site.

We've matured as a society.

What name did you set up under?

50K attendance at an all comic show is like 250K at a non-comic show. Charlotte is a banking town so the downtown core is mostly DINK (Double Income No Kids) so the city 'shuts down' after 5PM during the week but at night and on weekends there's plenty of stuff to do. It's a very clean mostly new downtown. Hot and humid if you don't mind that (I don't) and people are friendly.

After using it for a while I'm actually going to change my vote. Once I got used to it I actually quite liked how clean and easy to read threads were without all the extra clutter. I didn't realize you'd disabled it and I found myself getting annoyed seeing the same strings of pics and vids over and over in the same thread. And as far as the written text goes, you're right in that most posts aren't long enough to be truncated and the ones that are long enough to be truncated are going need extra time to read and reply to anyway so the extra step is a moot point. I vote to allow the Abbreviation software. From the poll results it looked like 40% were against and the rest were for but couldn't agree on how much to truncate.

I remember when @Aman619 had terribly written paragraphs and puncuation.

Miswraps only affect the grade if they are larger than a certain size. On an otherwise perfect book, the miswrap can downgrade the book between 9.6 and 9.9. This is not that bad of a miswrap and completely acceptable on 9.8

That's a legit seller. No way that's a shill bid.

CGC has been around for almost 18 years. There will always remain a group of people that are ignorant and choose to remain ignorant. "I hate CGC graded books." "Why?" "Because you can't read the comic." "Sure you can. You just remove it from the holder like I do with books in my collection" "It makes comics more expensive." "Maybe because you're finally getting what you paid for rather than undisclosed resto and over graded books?" It's never ending.

It's a thing of beauty, innit?

It looks like a dolphin humping a shark. I certainly don't see what you see.

I thought I read they don't notate on high grade books because there's no point (like a 9.6 or 9.8)? What's the sweet spot where they write something down? There is no rule as to what they notate and what they don't. It changes depending on who is grading the books and how they feel that day.

To read and admire artwork you mean? Yep.

Because that is exactly what it is. There is no underlying fundamental emotional attachment to the characters. It's just speculation based on movie performance. Comics used to be valued because readers wanted a copy.

Whichever one you can afford and like the best. That's the only right answer.

If you're saying that CGC should adjust their grading standards based on market prices, I completely disagree. They should be adjusting their grading standard to reflect that Marvel Chips significantly lower the condition of the book based on pure common sense. Books in similar overall grade outside of chipping seem to get similar grades from CGC...and when they go to sell the ones without chipping vastly outperform. This to me is because CGC is treating chipping like a minor factor when it should be a major defining feature/part of the assessment. I still disagree. CGC grades books they don't grade them based on value. Production related defects are treated differently than non-production related defects by CGC and it has always been so. And there are reasonable reasons for it (whether people agree or not). What you're saying now is that because there is a larger price differential they should be changing their grading standards. My perception is that there is a relatively small group of people who care about Marvel chipping and there is a relatively small group of people who don't and then there are those in between that don't consider it a reason to turn down a book but might consider it. I'll go so far as to say that GAtor's customers may only want non-chipped books because GAtor only wants non-chipped books but GAtor's perspective is not indicative of the entire market. I've sold many books with various stages of Pre Marvel chipping and have heard relatively few complaints as most people don't care or don't know any better. And most of the people who avoid chipping seem to be on this chat forum. Look for that to change as word gets out. But also as the speculative market increase people will continue to look for added value in a product and that is where a lot of this discussion stems form IMO. When AF #15's were $100, $1000 or even $10,000 books it didn't matter as much. Now that price differences between grades are measured in $10,000's it seems to matter to everyone a lot more.

If you're saying that CGC should adjust their grading standards based on market prices, I completely disagree.

You'd need more than two data points to corroborate that. Just become one exceptional copy sold for $57K and one average copy sold for $32K doesn't mean that automatically there is a 40% price difference between non-chipped and chipped copies (not sure if that's what you're implying). Personally, I think the conversation regarding chipped copies has also become very focused because it has become very investor-related as well. While some people cared about chipping not everyone did (or to my perception nearly as many people as do now).