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On 11/24/2023 at 8:56 PM, Lightning55 said:

I got an email every 3-4 days about it including yesterday.

And it was announced as part of their 10th anniversary deals last month.

Interesting, I never got an email from them. I knew they did it last year was the only reason I checked social media today.

Well since I can't find any mention of it anywhere on their website or here, CGC memberships are $50 off for another 19 minutes (11:59pm 11/24 EST.). It seems they posted this around 2pm today, and it's good for 10 hours.

https://www.facebook.com/100064274936095/posts/735365851949239/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Not to burst bubbles here, but police would probably consider this a civil case versus criminal. I doubt they'd do anything. You willingly sent him the comics.

On 11/7/2023 at 10:48 PM, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:

I sent in a batch of 25 books in May. When I got them back, I had to send 10 back for ME. All of them had cracks in one side of the case, in the same spot, suggesting there was some sort of mechanical issue with their encapsulator that was perhaps applying too much pressure? All of these except one was an oversized book, with the thicker case. 40% failure rate on this submission.

When I got back the ME submission, 8 of those 10 had various issues, including different cracks, or debris encapsulated with the book. 80% failure rate on those books.

When I got back the second ME submission, 4 of the 8 had some severe scuffing on the case, and another was cracked. I usually let a little scuffing go, but these were 9.8 books, and the scuffing made it look like the book was damaged or dirty. 62.5% failure rate on those.

Just got back those 5. 3 of the 5 have plastic shards inside. One of those shard is more than an inch long. Not sure how you miss those. So those will be going back. 60% failure rate.

If the trend holds. I'll need to send 2 of the 3 books back again, and then 1 of those 2 the next time. Then I guess it's a coin flip whether that one has no issues.

So in a batch of 25 you've now had 25 MEs.

The video is probably also a privacy thing for the employees. Could lead to harassment of employees who never agreed to be posted on public videos in the first place.

On 10/29/2023 at 7:07 PM, cstojano said:

Very naive question but if they admit they delivered it to the wrong address would they be paying out if you didn't purchase insurance?

Doubt it.

On 10/26/2023 at 2:52 PM, littledoom said:

ebay Terapeak Product research now has a past 3 years view

Is there a trick to see Terapeak? Everytime I've tried for months now all I see is "It’s not you. It’s us. Our server is down, but we’ll have things back to normal soon. If you still need help, visit our help pages."

Probably a tracking number scan error.

If the $600 1099 limit goes through in 2023, I'd expect to see some prices drop early 2024.

On 10/17/2023 at 8:55 AM, VintageComics said:

The conversation wasn't about where the old money went. It was about where the new money went that was printed over the last 3 years and caused the inflation we're experiencing. 

A lot of companies saw people getting free money and thought, "Great, I want some of that so I'm going to raise prices."

And that's why I'm spending 5k more in health insurance plus rent since pre-covid.

I'm actually thinking this probably came in the 3 pack. Would make more sense.

Did they ever explain how Ezra escaped the star destroyer (end of rebels) and avoided Thrawn's wrath for 7 years?

On 10/3/2023 at 9:32 PM, awakeintheashes said:

What he has added to canon has been more substantive than anything anyone has done since Lucas. Many believe Clone Wars saved Star Wars, which may or may not be true, but I think the story playing out is a bit more than fan service. He deserves the love he gets.  

Ironically I'd say Timothy Zahn's Heir to the Empire saved Star Wars. He spawned the EU that lasted 20+ years until Disney killed it.

I say all this as a bitter, old EU fanboy. I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. I do appreciate Filoni bringing back EU stuff into cannon. I just hate that so much amazing EU stuff got erased in the first place.

On 10/3/2023 at 11:38 PM, ExNihilo said:

It's character development (for those who didn't watch any of the animated series) wrapped up with space battles, lasers, and explosions.  If you've learned anything from Clone Wars and Rebels, it's the importance of character development.  That, and patience.  Neither of those shows took off until later seasons.

They've had 12(?) seasons to do character development though. These characters know each other very well. They were like family on cartoon. (Maybe not quite Asokha.) In the live action you had all these reunions and it felt like they were living in covid times. No one touched, no one hugged, nothing. All the relationships felt so... sterile.

We also aren't getting numerous seasons of this. It's probably 2-3 and a movie.

So just to recap...

Based on the update, it sounds like the OP was trying to sell someone a book they didn't own and were trying to buy a copy quickly on SB to flip.

Well I liked Thrawn in episode 7. Everyone else felt like they were conversing with a wooden plank. There's like no chemistry with any of the actors.

I haven't really been following labels so forgive my ignorance. Have they ever actually claimed they were never to be reprinted? Based on other products (Disney for example), being put in a vault never means it's permanently exclusive. It just means it's going away for an unknown period.

On 9/15/2023 at 12:54 PM, Brock said:

OK, I'm as a big a Hughes fan as anyone here, but holy hand grenades, this week's Werewolf by Night #1 cover has got to be the worst Hughes cover ever...

Funny, I really like it.

On 9/17/2023 at 3:23 PM, Axelrod said:

Think I read somewhere that they won't honor a request to slab a book backwards (intentionally).  As in the case where you like the back cover more than the front.  This seems something like that.

Yeah, they've slabbed a comic backwards for me before. I just taped a note to the bag for the slabber.

For the OP, I'd probably ask CS about this.

Yeah there's a hacker who hijacks high feedback accounts and lists high cost graded items. They've been listing an EOSV 2 1:25 9.8 for what feels like years.

On 8/29/2023 at 5:13 PM, RobAnybody said:

I recently consigned some CGC comics to MCS.  Great experience so far.  One thing I'd suggest is a better notification system for when you have received an Offer on a Buy It Now with "Or Best Offer" enabled.  It took me a while to even realize I had to click on "Review Offers I've Received" to know about them.  Also, another suggestion is to have a way to contact someone when "Expired waiting for your response" happens - that tends to happen just 'cause I didn't even realize there even was an offer on the table.  I'm checking it more often now that I know that, but it'd be nice if 1) the site notified me &/or 2) if I could be like "oh, hey, I missed seeing your offer - sorry about that - here's my Accept or Counter".

I mentioned this a while back, but my notifications from MCS for received offers went straight to spam. You may wanna check there if you're not getting them.

Maybe they realize that people seeing the unremovable CL sticker will decrease the value of the comic.

On 8/25/2023 at 10:05 PM, toro said:

Okay, I admit that there are some weird results in some of my auctions that could just be a coincidence.  Someone else's  book in the same grade sells at $250 and mine sells for $145.  I get that can happen.

Today I am looking at my ASM #9 in 6.5 and it is currently at $750, the 5.5 is at $900 with 23 bids to my 14

Sorry for the whining.

Here are the two auctions

6.5 - https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FPREVIEW.ASP%3Fcode%3D2023aug%26session%3D2%23Item_1710187&id=1710187&itemType=0

5.5 - https://www.comiclink.com/auctions/item.asp?back=%2FAUCTIONS%2FPREVIEW.ASP%3Fcode%3D2023aug%26session%3D2%23Item_1710879&id=1710879&itemType=0

I wouldn't take much stock in current prices before an auction ends.