donlas

Does anyone know anything about this yet? I knew this was going to take a while but my book's been waiting for over four months now...

As I said, I'm not looking for an overall grade but am specifically interested in the particular corner flaws mentioned. It's a very simple question and requires less effort than an overall grading assessment. I don't have the book on me to scan. Only have these pictures. Mods feel free to delete the thread if it's such a problem.

Thinking of sending this in for Simonson to sign. This copy is beautiful aside from two minor corner issues that seem like little rips, possibly printing errors (but who can say; can't count on that). Bottom front corner and top back corner. Some of the top back wrinkling should press out, I think, but the little rip won't. Any idea what these little defects would cost me? Assuming everything else is flawless, what's the highest grade I could get? Any help would be appreciated. Have to send this out by Thursday, if I send it...

topp-81 ^Another clown who negotiates a lower price on an expensive comic, doesn't pay, ghosts you, comes back at the very last minute to say he'll pay tomorrow, but of course he doesn't. Save yourself a lot of time and block.

ibrahialqemla0 ^Another newbie time-waster. Apparently he watched one of my comics ($100) because he got an offer that I sent watchers for $20 off. He buys the comic outright, for full price... then sends me a message saying he agreed to the sale price but it didn't go through... then makes a cancellation request... then sends me a message saying he wants to cancel... all within a few minutes. I respond by asking if he'd just like me to send him a refund for $20? Hours later he responds and says he wants to cancel. Gee thanks.

Add ebay user emerald_knight_92 to the list. Complete time-waster newbie. Filed a return under false pretenses saying the comic wasn't as pictured or as described, when it was. No contact whatsoever, now filed a case against me for shipping costs. All I can figure is that he expected a "NM" raw comic to be "9.8" when I never said it was. Returned comic with altered shipping materials, taking out all the extra protective cardboard I put in, to save himself shipping costs, basically hedging his bets that the comic would arrive back in my hands in subpar condition (amazingly, it didn't).

I assume you got this information from GPA. It was an error. I just looked into this and the supposed 9.2 restored X-Men #1 that sold in April 2017 for under $1400 was actually a restored 2.5, according to the actual CGC number paired with this listing (when you look it up on the CGC website). I alerted GPA of this and Andy investigated and removed the listing, repositioning it as a 2.5 (which makes total sense price-wise). The CGC number in question is 1465443003. The only restored 9.2 X-Men #1 now showing on GPA is one that has been sold multiple times for substantially more than $1400. It does seem that lower-grade restored copies go for a larger percentage of unrestored copies than higher grade restoreds. But 3% is insanely low and if that ever happens then the buyer got an absolute steal, especially for grades so high that there are only a handful (okay, a few dozen) copies in the world that look that nice, restored or not. I'd say 10% of unrestored value is about right (for now), whereas those in lower grades would be more like 35%. That's just what I'm noticing.

Thanks, guys! Tons of knowledge for me to soak up right now! Rather in awe of it all! I've acquired about 20 CGC comics over the last year, thought I sort of... knew about them, but now there's this whole other level...

Hey everyone, my name's Don and I've been collecting since I was a kid in the mid '80s. Like many others in my generation, I got out of comics around the turn of the millennium... only to lapse back into them several years ago. My addiction has grown, and I've graduated from hunting down key issues in any grade... to hunting down only high-grade copies... to buying a few dozen CGC'd comics on eBay... and now I'm about to submit my own comics for grading. There seems to be a LOT to this, and so far reading this forum has been a big help. I look forward to reading and participating in it in the future, and (hoping that it doesn't violate the rules -- I don't think it will?) I'm going to make a post of my own soon in hopes that some people here can answer several quick questions that I don't see addressed anywhere else.