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These days, I wouldn't automatically discount not agreeing with the CGC graders. In no way am I saying you're wrong. Did you happen to look over the slab in question before you mailed it out?

Let me see if I have this straight... If the slab damage isn't in the line of view of the comic, it's acceptable. Is that right?

This kind of addresses something that I've often wondered. We all know of the many, many quality issues. (I won't go into the lack of giving a by CGC at this time) But I've often wondered if more care was given to the higher tiers. If a book has a higher FMV, does the chances of any of these defects (shards, NRs, smudges/scratches, cracks, and on and on) go down? Or does a book submitted under the WT tier (or whatever they're calling it these days) have the same risk of 'acceptable' defects as a book submitted under the Modern tier?

Dang it, now I see it. Get outta my head dude!

yep

Still waiting for this ME announcement to come out. I'm afraid that when it does though, this statement by @Iceman399 will most likely be validated.

Why doesn't the op just look at the indicia?

The other morning, I got a boatload of emails from Ebay (as usual) of saved search matches. Everytime I clicked on a link, I got the "We looked everywhere" message.

Smelling comics. Smelling feet. What's the difference?

This is normal.

I remember doing that years ago. I had a Darkchylde 1 with a Glory/Angela 1 on the other side. I asked them to put the Darkchylde in the front, even though the Glory/Angela was the true front of the comic.

Rest assured...

Is this a flipbook?

I wonder if they can just use the original labels, and just put them back in the right holders?

Completely unacceptable. How can a company get away with this BS?

That's a new one.

When a buyer does a search for a particular comic, how does ebay determine the order of listings shown in the list of results? I understand you can manipulate this order by choosing highest/lowest price, ending first, etc ... but I believe "BEST MATCH" is the default.

I do the same thing. Never thought I was doing something that was frowned on.

This guy gets it.

They never charged you for grading? So, here we have one single example of a comic that CGC's QC screwedup ... and there's two screwups on this single ME (no custom label and different grade). I know it'll never be disclosed, but I'd be very interested to know if there was some kind of accountability for these QC failures. Keep in mind this is but a single example here (out of the thousands of MEs they've been receiving). And if there is (which I highly doubt), where does the accountability fall ... with the person responsible for choosing the label, the grader, or the QC department (again, if it even exists)?

re: price increase I get it. Their profit margin has been going down ... most likely due to the massive amounts of MEs being submitted. So instead of investing in their lousy QC department (thereby vastly reducing the ME submissions), they just raise their prices instead. So, we still get a lousy QC (which has been lousy for YEARS) to go along with higher prices - and it's kind of obvious that they're going to drastically reduce what falls into the category of an ME (heck, they already started with this 14 day BS). Instead of just...wait for it...FIXING THE DANG PROBLEM, they keep the status quo but charge more for it. The price increase would've been so much easier to swallow if it was to offset the cost of improving their QC department. But seriously, given these guys' track record, is anyone surprised by this, yet another, bad decision?

CGC - "I'm sorry this happened to you. Here's a free shipping label. Next!"

CGC lying to their customers? I'm shocked!