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The three forms printed online had variations and weren't same same form printed three times actually. Gotcha.

Can you not just photocopy the customs form?

I'm going to be putting up a Captain America Comics #1 interior soon. It's missing the centerfold. I'm just waiting for Fedoraman's magnificent repro cover to show up to have it attahced so it looks NM/M! If anyone is looking for an interior, you can drop me a PM.

Volumes can be written about these two sentences.

That would be proprietary.

What people are disagreeing with is the variation in CGC's grading standards. Exactly. If you have been submitting since the beginning you notice the swing from strict to loose and back. The key is timing your buying to strict grading and your own submissions to looser grading. I think assuming your grading has been consistent and theirs has not is just as much as a leap in judgement as the reverse. I'd disagree with that. Just as I am sure they would disagree with you. :shrug: I have proof.

I think it was actually worth a little more, but then the seller knew that and priced it for quick sale.

This is entirely speculation on your part. It could just be that they are keeping their sales prices proprietary because some books sell for more as well. It's a two way street. That only makes sense if the hammer prices were only available to those who bid. While the duration for finding them isn't particularly long (depending on the auction house, some are very long), the final prices are public knowledge. Maybe they have other reasons, but GPA has gone on record on the boards more than once stating that the reason some of these auction houses aren't in the tool is because they wanted to pick and choose which data to report, which GPA was not supportive of. :shrug: CLink does consider their sales price proprietary, which is why GPA can't just harvest them all for their site. Just as there is a benefit to knowing what record low sales were, there is also benefit to a seller to know what record high sales were.

What people are disagreeing with is the variation in CGC's grading standards. Exactly. If you have been submitting since the beginning you notice the swing from strict to loose and back. The key is timing your buying to strict grading and your own submissions to looser grading. I think assuming your grading has been consistent and theirs has not is just as much as a leap in judgement as the reverse. I'd disagree with that.

Because as I stated, the 5.5 and the 6.5 looked to me like they had a shot at being improvable...so they are not true values for books in those grades. I would have considered them to be less than $20K and $30K, but if the market has moved (based on what I consider outlier numbers) then I guess I'm on the wrong side of right, as F_D once put it.

This is entirely speculation on your part. It could just be that they are keeping their sales prices proprietary because some books sell for more as well. It's a two way street.

Don't get me wrong. I have no problem asking (or getting) full price for books but I just think this 'helicopter appreciation' market research is not very realistic. Every time a book sells for a high, everyone immediately assumes it's a new benchmark.

I used to be a 'price it at the top of GPA' person. I no longer am. As we discussed earlier, I thought those two numbers were outliers but hey, I'm wrong sometimes too. I don't know, Roy. A 4.5 just sold on the boards for 13K. I'm not sure what you mean. Big keys always sell well when priced under market. A 4.5 copy would have been a $13,500 book to me so it was priced cheap and sold...if it even when for full price. Read back a couple of pages and you'll understand where I'm coming from.

What people are disagreeing with is the variation in CGC's grading standards.

I used to be a 'price it at the top of GPA' person. I no longer am. As we discussed earlier, I thought those two numbers were outliers but hey, I'm wrong sometimes too.

Thanks for a great transaction, Randall!

Rarely seen. At least by me.

I think this is the 1st Baker book I ever noticed. Just love this one.

I thought it was one of the best films of 2015.

I offered in this thread to help Quadman get the ball rolling because he wasn't too far from me and I never heard from anyone. After that, I quoted you on Novermber 8th in this thread and asked you to send him to me since I was next on the list: Then shortly after that, you said that a group PM was going out to all Canadians. I never received one. Why do you always post like you have a chip on your shoulder? I have no idea what you mean by mock outrage but I if you can just scratch me from the list, I'm cool with that. Thanks.

This is getting silly. Kraven was literally 40 miles from me. You guys can take me off the list. There's just too much disorganization gong on.

So some family members figured out what was going on and blocked the deal? I guess that's better than grabbing an Action #1 and ripping it in half!

Again, I think there is a difference between saying 'I don't like tanning on my 9.4 books' and 'that book looks like a 9.0' - which in my opinion it doesn't.

Here's my earlier post (one of the first). I'm not slamming the book in any way. Just making observations. I will add to my post and say it is one heckuva book and deserves the golf clap.! I think where Barton is coming from and where I do come from is when people make statements like 'OMG, what an overgraded POS - that book should only grade a ___!' If you're friend owned the book they probably wouldn't say that but instead would either pump the book or just remain silent. But the internet seems to enable people to disconnect from remembering that any given book is owned by an actual person out there and that their auction prices could suffer from someone's hyperbolic posts. There's a big difference between saying something like "I'm not a fan of tanning" and "OMG what a POS!" Yes, I am exaggerating a bit to make my point.

It's nice to see a positive comment about this book. I know comments on the internet skew towards the negative and people are free to share their opinions and all that. But I'm always a little aghast at some of the posts about some big books in auctions over the years. And I know I've probably been guilty of it myself at one time or another. Are the comments fair game? Sure. Reasonable? Often. Do they make a difference to the final prices realized? I don't know. Maybe sometimes. But I usually think, "Hey, this is somebody's book and he or she is trying to sell it for as much as possible." And if I'm not a fan of the book or grade, what's the point of me posting that in a public forum? I just won't bid on it. Again, I know people are free to share their opinions and the point of this board is to discuss funny books, good and bad. Though it seems to me, there's usually gleeful rush to post dismissive comments about the books. I guess I just wish for a little more restraint. I'm with you. I've piped up to point out that people were being disrespectful and have taken heat for it. I always try (try being the operative word) to treat a public offering as if it would be my own when criticizing it.