jcjames

That would entail someone actually looking at it after it's been slabbed.

Yet from CGC's post: "All Mechanical Error submissions, regardless of error, must be received by CGC within 14 days of the submitter’s receipt of the collectible."

There is only ONE person who consistently cares about customers and the hobby, and that is this guy right here. Without him, CGC would have zero credibility at any level anywhere. Mike, you are the ONLY consistently respectable aspect that CGC has - and I hope they are aware of that!

Is it not fully crystal clear to everyone now? CGC doesn't care about you or your stupid books. Period. They don't care about your "precious" collectibles. They don't give a schitt about your petty puny belly-aching and whining about mixed-up labels, scuffed or cracked cases, shards or hairs, and they sure as hell don't care about your stupid book looking like it's got an oil stain in their "crystal clear" cases. They just don't care about you or your stupid books. All they care about is the Benjamins. And they will now openly rig their own system to ensure that you get screwed waiting months for your stupid book to come back in a scratched case or the wrong label or debris in the case - and then they give you two weeks to ship it BACK to them including the time it sits on their floors waiting for them to open your package and log your stupid book into their system - so they can MAYBE decide if the f-ed up case they sent you is worthy of them trying to fix, and if not - more Benjamins for them! You go on vacation this summer and don't open your CGC box of damaged slabs until you get back - FU, pay-up. You buy a slab from a dealer or auction house and see it has debris or a label problem - FU, pay-up. You send in your slab you just got back with cracks or debris but they sit on it a few extra days before "receiving" it - FU, pay-up. You send in your slab you just got back with scuffs and they decide the scuffs are "acceptable" - FU, pay-up. They. Don't. Care.

Welcome to the world of high-volatility in the collectibles market! Timing was not on your side, sorry to say. Your list has a good deal of decent "no-brainer" slab-contenders as long as they're fairly upper-grade, though some need to be very high-grade (9.6+) to see immediate value gained. Hold them when you get them and for most the market will rise to them eventually. In the meantime while you wait for the market to rise, enjoy them!

I was going off top of my head memory, and that's the pictures I remember since I haven't watched the Oscar's in, oh, probably about 20 years! Lol 😆 If what the Academy President said is right (most doubtful) - then that only proves there's no need to force DEI into the industry via best-picture requirements. Which to me proves their dishonesty no matter what.

Same. But this puts a lot of pressure on the industry to awkwardly jam in even more social propaganda into great storylines and casts, weakening the whole production rather than just make a great quality film. Films like "Amadeus", "Apollo 13", "Tombstone", "Unforgiven", "Rain Man", "ET", "Goodfellas", "Braveheart", "Saving Private Ryan" and so many others would either need to hamfistedly socially-propagandized or just ignored for their greatness by the industry.

They were?

Richard Dreyfuss: Dreyfuss told Margaret Hoover during an interview Friday on the PBS series "Firing Line" that such rules "make me vomit." When Hoover asked him why, the actor said, "Because this is an art form." "I don't think that there is a minority or a majority in this country that has to be catered to like that," He then cited a bit of a history regarding Laurence Olivier being "the last white actor to play Othello," referring to the 1965 film, in which the British actor performed in blackface Dreyfuss praised the performance, saying Olivier played the role "brilliantly." "Am I being told that I will never have a chance to play a Black man?" Dreyfuss said. "Is someone else being told that if they're not Jewish they shouldn't play the Merchant of Venice? Are we crazy? Do we not know that art is art?" ...."Because it's patronizing," he said. "Because it says that we're so fragile that we can't have our feelings hurt."