dporges

I'm now wondering, given that CGC is in Florida, if anyone's checked the building's integrity recently.

Proof:

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TVGroupID=22544175&cgc=y

Fast Track Value:

Delivered 5/1 (says post office)

Scheduled for grading 5/8

6/12: Still in SFG but the category in the detailed list has been filled in as Universal for all books.  (8 books by the way, 7 SA X-men and 1 GA Marvel Family.)

6/18: Grading/QC

6/20 Shipped/safe

Fast Track Value:

Delivered 5/1 (says post office)

Scheduled for grading 5/8

Today 6/12: Still in SFG but the category in the detailed list has been filled in as Universal for all books.  (8 books by the way, 7 SA X-men and 1 GA Marvel Family.)

Should say I also got 5 FT Moderns back this week that were submitted to them after pressing, presser sent to them May 2nd, delivered to me June 4th.

On 5/8/2019 at 12:31 PM, dporges said:

Fast Track Value:

Delivered 5/1 (says post office)

Scheduled for grading 5/8

Still in SFG this morning, 6/7.  The Fast Track estimate on the site, right now, is 31 days.  I don't know what it was a month ago.

1 minute ago, Crops068 said:

It just mucks up your search if you have the unsold "Completed" listings. 

Oh right...it's an "OR", not an "AND" of the two categories.  Thanks.

On 6/1/2019 at 8:41 PM, Crops068 said:

Side note it auto clicks Completed Items when you do that as well.  Once it loads you can then go back and uncheck Completed.

I know what a Competed but not Sold item would be -- I think? -- an unsold listing.  What would a Sold but not Completed item be?

A (female) cousin of mine once entered a short-story-writing contest in college where the prize was that the story would be published in an unnamed national magazine.  Turns out she won and then discovered the magazine was Playboy, which would not have been her choice of venues.

But the point is, when I went to get that issue to see what the story was, I was literally "buying Playboy for the award-winning short fiction".

1 hour ago, bc said:

Insurance expenses.

As a business entity, I would assume they need to carry insurance waivers/business liability insurance on high value books while they are in CGCs possession.

Well then, the faster they grade it, the less time they have the book in their possession, so the insurance should be less, so it should cost us less, right?  RIGHT?

If "your guy" is taking books from people and throwing them into the press without opening them and examining them, you should probably get another guy.  (I bet he's not, though.)

Fast Track Value:

Delivered 5/1 (says post office)

Scheduled for grading 5/8

Got 4 back today, they all have it a little, but this (PPSSM 90) is the worst -- the black on black is definitely showing it badly.

FT Modern:

Delivered [per PO] 4/18

"Received" 4/24

Scheduled for Grading 4/29

Finalized/Imaged/Shipped 5/2

I got a Steranko signed Cap 110 in what I hope turn out to be an 8.0 or so.  He LOOOOVES to talk to the fans, so it was a 2-hour line with about as many people as you see there (a 2-ply line).  I only happened to see about this show the night before and am really glad I did.

I emailed them about it, and got:

"Fast Track would have to be chosen for both services.  Unfortunately, you could not choose it for only pressing or only grading."

I was too polite to send the obvious reply, "why TF not".

I just drilled down to that ASM 121, and guess what?  The guy listed it as Charlton!  So it's not eBay doing a subtle selling trick, just a messed-up seller.  ETA: It's under "Description".

Why would you even.

You say at the end "marriage, which is not conservation".  If you look at the CGC restoration grading criteria (https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/4084/) it shows various levels of page marrying and which Conserved grades they would get, so I think your premise is not correct.  I'd say they're saying "it's restored" and then listing what exactly was done, which in this case includes both the staple issue and the page marrying.

This is just me, but I feel better calling raws on eBay a VF for instance as opposed to an 8.0, for exactly the reason the OP mentioned; the number grade seems to imply a slabbing house.  Just my convention.  (The eBay "grade" selection considers them the same; I'm talking about the text of the listing.)

On 3/8/2019 at 1:53 PM, comicdonna said:

+1  Read the fine print.  A few years ago, I consigned some non comic (fairly low value) items to a place that has weekly auctions.  If you read deep, they get to keep the items if they don't sell within 30 days.

HOLY MOLEY.

I also use mycomicshop.com; one advantage is that you only have to prepare one package for a pile of comics.  Another is that for non-slabs they do the grading and you never have to argue with anyone on the Internet about it.  The downside is, no matter how much I try, they're always at least a full point stricter on the grade than I am.  Logically I know this must be my fault but it's infuriating.

Another quick-and-easy source of RELATIVE values is comicbookrealm.com.   The actual prices they give most visibly are for books in 9.4 (although you can easily get their prices in other grades), but the real reason to use it is just to look at the entire run of a title to see which issues are the most valuable, as when there is a 1st appearance of a character deep into a run.  Also, I don't know how long it takes to update to reflect what happens when a character is announced to be in a movie, or there is a rumor of such.  But it gives you a starting point.

Uh, does that seller have other lots for sale?

Now the market is responding to "pitches"?

"Buy on the rumor, sell on the news."

EFT:

Received 3/17

Scheduled for Grading 4/11

Graded 4/13

Graded/QC 4/19

Shipped/Safe 4/22