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Yes, there is a difference. The media seemes much more interest in promoting, protecting, and deflecting criticism of the Marvels. With that said, how much of that is that Aquaman 2 has had a full year of negative press, and the performance is just seen as inevitable, so they have no need or desire to defend it. In addition DCEU to a large extent has already been written off as a failure. They are just now coming to terms with the decline in the MCU, which was a media darling.
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I think the thought process is that a scammer if they find a good method and they are good at it is likely to stick with it. So married wraps, like you said, would need ro be very well done and go through a normal grading process. The swap method is more likely to get missed at CGC due to graders never seeing the book with a reholder. Finally, when you marry a book you generally have to sacrifice a lower grade book, or know if submitted it will now be a qualified grade. With the swapping you get two higher grade blue label books.
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Most likely CGC response is that the reholder process will be discontinued with little or no explanation. Just something like, "due to continued high volume and low staff levels, we have decided to suspend the reholder service for the time being. CGC is sorry for the inconvenience. You can continue to get new cases, but they must go through the grading process. Updated labels due to missing information, will be handled on a case to case basis. Please contact CGC directly concerning this type of issue." My prediction on the first and possible only thing we will hear from CGC. At some point in the next year or so, CGC will make some announcement, seemingly not connected, of new security meseasures being added to the cases. This will be proudly announced as a way to better serve the community, no explanation given for the changes.
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Cert numbers can be thrown off a bit by conventions. The forms filled out online are sequential by when they are generated. At conventions, CGC will still use hand filled out pre-printed submission forms. Not sure how those forms numbers fall in line with the numbers generated online. You also have to remember when people submit books for a press, the pressors will have clients generate the submission forms under their accounts, and it may be weeks or even moths before these forms hit CGC. The numbers will still always go up, but the exact sequence will be interrupted.
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Agree, he got caught when he tried a book that has 4 to 5 times the value of its more common variant with the MJ insert. I think he worked his way up with things like the MVS, and the newstand editions, once he got confident he started going for the rarer and bigger money stuff. As for how eBay missed it is because they were not looking. They get thousands of new listings every day, so it is very easy to get things past. Only once multiple bad reviews start piling up do they take notice.
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Yes, it specifically says comics will only be regraded if damage it obvious. We also know that the other criteria is that the inner well can not be removable from the outer case, or it will be subject to regrade. This makes me fairly confident what is happening here. I personally think the comic in the inner well is being transferred, as the bigger well seems to be easier to manipulate without completely destroying the case. There is just more play to work with. I think whatever method is being used to open then case is causing damage to the outer case. Thus, the initial need to send the books back to CGC. Even he he has found a perfect way to open them, this also insures he gets an authentic label, and has the chance to request changes to the label. This brings us to section two, that the comic can not be easily removed from the case, or it may be regraded. Given the QC issues often discussed, how well is this being assessed? People have talked about needing sonic welders or a outright flaw in the anti tampering properties of the case. I do no think this is needed. All he needs to do is get that comic to not easily slide out. So all he needs is glue or adhesive that keeps the inner well in the outer case and is not obvious. This may be easy to miss since the case is being sent in as broken anyway. Seems a few drops on a broken corner would more then do this job, and covered up by the damage to the plastic. Then it will pass the second criteria. This makes all of this a clever, but actually relatively low skill way to manipulate the system, once the reholder loophole was found.