To be fair, I've had nothing but NM+ books from Frankie's thus far, I've ordered maybe 8-10 books from them. Hoping this is an isolated incident.
The CBSI 9.8 club is a great question, hopefully they (Frankies/SadLemon) just sent them their alotted books without cherry picking, but there is no way to know for sure. That should just be the risk the 9,8 club has to take on 500 print run books....there's no guarantee.....that's why I'm paying you 2-3x (minumum) the cost of slabbing myself. If you can not attain all promised 9.8s, issue a refund and apologize.
Something tells me they cherry picked though, because I have heard NO mention or concern on the G+ page as to the damage which, so far, 90-100% of public orders have...
That said, I received my color/b&w set yesterday, no color breaking creases, and the B&W looks to be NM+, it has some ripples along the spine, but nothing that wont press out.