ADAMANTIUM

On 5/7/2024 at 1:50 PM, MattM CS said:

@ADAMANTIUM @eastbayrudy

Thanks for the tag! You can submit a book with multiple Sigs. The fee for this is $25 per Signature. @ADAMANTIUM the 2 sig maximum is for the signature GRADING service. But if you have a book with 10+ sigs, you can submit this through the CGC x JSA service to have each signature reviewed. We just can not grade the signatures. 

ah that is a MAJOR clarification!! Muchos Gracias!! That sounds better  

On 5/7/2024 at 1:46 PM, eastbayrudy said:

I cant find anywhere the answer to my questions...can I submit a book with multiple sigs? If yes, is there a maximum amount of sigs they can do per book? Would it just be $25 for each sig? Thanks in advance for any help. 

On 5/7/2024 at 1:29 PM, MattM CS said:

CGC x JSA will only offer this service for up to 2 books period.

Example:

If your book has 3 unwitnessed sigs and you requested this Sig Grading service this add on would be removed as it can not apply. 

On 5/7/2024 at 12:22 PM, Poutine said:

25 bucks an autograph? Ridiculous 

Edit : 27 sigs there. Is this book worth it? Possibly I guess, but not sure I want to find out

On 5/7/2024 at 1:01 PM, dbcn said:

From the submission form you can currently only get 2 sigs verified... so which 2 you gonna pick  

I wonder if it means 2 at a time? Or 2 period? It sounds like more than 2 unwitnessed sigs per book is a no, no, and I suppose due to the label space but idk yet

On 5/7/2024 at 12:41 PM, NY Roadkill said:

There was a previous status of on 3/1 of received at CGC (I forget the exact words), which I presume was when the box was opened. On 3/2 I was charged $40 for CGC Pressing. Clairmont/Austin signing was scheduled for early March, books had to be there by 3/1, and I was charged for that on 3/7 - so I presume the signing happened then also. Status then changed to Received at CCS on 4/4, and I was charged another $20 on 4/4. That's what I know - I did pay for pressing - so waiting for that to happen and for them to go to SFG.

Awesome, thanks as they try to stick to a 6 to 8 week total tat with pressing on a signing  I haven't heard otherwise, but sometimes signings don't all get finished and wrapped up at one time. I haven't heard that with this signing and if you've seen charges, it should be all good and coming up quick on the 6 to 8 week deadline for cgc

You might call if you can or shoot them an email, but if it has only been 5 weeks so far, you might get a standard response of "shortly." but idk. They might have more info concerning the signing that I'm not aware of, but when it has been 6,7, or even 8 weeks definitely follow up with a call or email to cgc.  

On 5/7/2024 at 11:00 AM, NY Roadkill said:

I have 2 books that show received 3/1/24 for in-house signing, and went to Received at CCS for cleaning/pressing on 4/4/24 - anxiously awaiting the change to Scheduled for Grading, anyone have recent experience on how long books take to get through CCS? Been almost 5 full weeks.

Are you aware if the signing has happened yet?

All books when paid for pressing show up at CGC immediately as "in ccs" until the signing happens and show up only immediately as SFG if pressing was not chosen to be paid for as an option. That is all immediately when "received!"

It could be that the signing hasn't happened, and the books are secured at and with CGC at CCS as normal; to show they've received your books and when the signing happens, then CGC tries to get the full CCS and Grading to happen within their 6 to 8 turnaround times  

On 5/6/2024 at 7:49 PM, CGC Mike said:

@zzutak  5.0  3.0  5.0  = 3 points  2nd place winner

@Cerebus3000  5.0  3.0  4.0  =  5 points  3rd place winner  

Congratulations guys!  

 

 

Honorable finish peeps!

On 5/6/2024 at 7:01 PM, pens666 said:

Yes Cpt Kirk, it is a Canadian price variant, which is rare in itself, was just curious if this error might make it more valuable.  It is going out to CGC next week, I am going to place a note on it to ensure they make note of the error.. (looking back at this thread, it appears that manufacturing errors are given blue labels now...I would not grade it if I'm going to get the green label...)

Clarification....

Green label would indicate a notation of why it was green, or do they do the same with a blue?

Also, is this to be slabbed due to the price, book, or notation if any?

No right or wrong, just curious of the philosophical bent

On 5/6/2024 at 12:05 PM, pens666 said:

I was wondering if anyone has seen this error, inside front and back covers completely blank..?  Also, will CGC give it a blue label? And do you think the value changes with the error?

On 5/6/2024 at 5:54 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

 

I'm thinking the Batman is a manufacturing error.   But what also strikes me is that it looks like a Canadian Price Variant, given the $1.00 price tag on the front cover.  Is the inside back cover also blank?

On 5/6/2024 at 11:04 AM, SpineTic said:

A cutie, I hope it doesn't turn out to be this Hellboy cat! 😺 

My one from Rome Georgia shipped, down to the heart of the matter if the trouble truly originated from there?

On 5/5/2024 at 9:37 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

There used to be a way to see how often a bidder had bid with a particular seller, is this still true?

Under the bid history it should say.

Last I remember reading about the percentage of a bidder with seller, ebay had changed it to info only available with the actual bidders on an auction.

It too has been so long since I've bid in an auction and or felt this way, idk where the info is now nor how to find it, other than in the bid history details 

I DO know that it used to be available 

Your sure it was a snipe bid? 

That bidder hadn't bid beforehand at any time? 

There used to be a way to see how often a bidder had bid with a particular seller, is this still true?

Under the bid history it should say. Usually mischievous bidders on fake accounts don't bother to win on other people's books I don't think, so possibly that could help 

On 5/5/2024 at 8:59 PM, Nschenks said:

Not sure where else to post about this, but I'm curious for the community's opinion on this:

Just won an eBay auction for an expensive book, but I'm a little suspicious of the way the auction ended. Basically, I won the auction with a bid of $866 when my max was $866.01...but I used a sniping service so the bid went in like 3 seconds before the auction ended. Only one other bidder bid anywhere close to that, and it was $856. This was a private listing as well. I don't honestly know how someone could shill against a sniped bid, but it feels incredibly suspicious to me. Anyone know how this could be done? Or if it could be done? Or is it just the freak case where someone legitimately bid just below me (it said the bid went in at the same time as mine, indicating it was a snipe as well...just feels odd it was so specific and so close to my max...). I'd thought sniping eliminated the chance of getting shilled, but maybe I was wrong. Would love to hear thoughts on this. Maybe I'm just paranoid lol...

Sounds simple enough, you out sniped. Plain and simple to me, all that is circumstantial and maybe they were doing the same math you were to decide a bid. That sounds more likely. Even if it turned out to be by a buddy of the seller, they don't read minds and it wouldn't have been known to them, and tmk is still not known to them. They could be saying awe snap I should have bid higher to max out the bid or bid higher to win it.

In short if they did it could be because they didn't want to sell it low but either way, they'd have no idea what your snipe bid would be.

All ramblings, in short I wouldn't call it mischievous 

On 5/5/2024 at 8:25 PM, CGC Mike said:

Muchos Gracias 🙏 

I just bought from a seller in Rome Georgia.....

They haven't updated the listing with shipping, but I bought it Friday..... figured I wouldn't message until tomorrow....

Plus they only have 8 feedback but all positive with comics being sold.

Prayers

And that is me buying something

I can't imagine the stress of having sold, y'all have my prayers too eek.

Again rain in Texas but don't know the area in Georgia very well.

On 5/5/2024 at 8:24 PM, Axelrod said:

 

Thanks Mike! 

And congrats to everyone else!

This will likely never happen again, so, I will take it!

Your usual holiday raffle prize is nothing to sneeze at! Glad it happened to such a generous person, and for putting in the work! Sugar that does kind of help the medicine go down!  a clean sweep! @Axelrod

I'd break out into song, but it is probably best I don't

Awesome 👍 😎 

On 5/5/2024 at 6:53 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

On 5/5/2024 at 6:52 PM, frozentundraguy said:

also missed the crease on Web of Spidey, as I was in a hurry to get out of town for the weekend.

There is a few of us as you go through the thread! 😜 Lol

It's good to not be alone, but ya  it felt like what? That I had to check the book, which it does come away as a webbing on our backsides for not noticing. 

On 5/5/2024 at 6:52 PM, frozentundraguy said:

I also missed the crease on Web of Spidey, as I was in a hurry to get out of town for the weekend.

There is a few of us as you go through the thread! 😜 Lol

To be clear, prescreens never made sense to me, and depending on the book in question they still don't, not everything needs to be in a cgc slab. We were all on the same page, I think it was just boring to have to explain IT  

On 5/5/2024 at 2:18 PM, JollyComics said:

Restoration issue and PGM threads are beneficial because their insights upon my books that will help my decision to save the money from submitting my books.

All of my books were sold as is and as it described.  Yes, some are losses but it's better than sending them to CGC.

Ya I don't think anyone was yay, but mostly nay, sorry for rubbishing up the thread. To hear it mentioned is always in a positive light, which confused me is all.

Chalk this up to a lazy Sunday after yardwork was finished 😂 

On 5/5/2024 at 2:05 PM, Kramerica said:

The whole thing is an exhausting waste of time and money $$$. Especially writing about it. Sheesh. I'm done.

ah never mind, didn't mean to make you exasperated. Do it or don't, all good, but thanks for the clarification, as I hadn't ever had it explained and I couldn't figure it out.

No worries

On 5/5/2024 at 2:03 PM, Kramerica said:

Personally I've done it one in a submission of Bronze and Copper age Spidey stuff and put the minimum at 9.4. They all passed and got the grades. I was happy. But I was under the impression that they would send any rejects back with my submission.

I believe they send them back, but what he might means is the cost to ship separately from the slabs that passed.

Transitionally, I've sent in books that it would have been easier to just buy 9.6 slab, rather than try my hand at a raw, for instance my "Web of Spider-man #1" came back 9.0  even though no press and it was only the $23 cost at the time to slab  

The book was found raw for $1 so I sent it.

It is still technically cheaper sometimes to do so when paying for a already slabbed 9.6 cgc that is going to cost me $50 or $60 before tax and shipping

I see that is pretty much a no-win scenario for me, except I like the book and it is ok in a registry I guess  

On 5/5/2024 at 1:57 PM, Darwination said:

I was in a comic shop down in Birmingham last week and saw tons of 20 and 30 dollar very new modern slabs even at 9.8   I don't quite understand the rush to put anything and everything in a box.  Only the house wins with a lot of these books...

ya I edited, only one of my LCS send in a bunch of moderns fresh off the rack with no history of sales

On 5/5/2024 at 1:57 PM, Kramerica said:

It adds up to a huge waste of time is what it does. The CGC 9.8 variant market (with a possiible Sig Ser) is a huge sinkhole for time and money unless you can pass on the pressing and 100% you're going to get a 9.8 and then sell before anyone else gets their 9.8 copy up. I watched my ex-Boss try to do this for years with 1:50 and 1:00 variants and signings and special books and whatever was hot (or going to be in a few weeks) and he lost his big time. Nothing like selling a CGC 9.6 modern variant for $20.00.

ya that is kind of iffy on the face of it, I guess I get why it is an "option" but seems like a lot of work even in housing costs. One LCS by me does it, I guess I should ask them, but weird.

On 5/5/2024 at 1:58 PM, JollyComics said:

@ADAMANTIUM

If your book is rejected, you have to pay for the returning mail.  That's why I never use a reject fee.  

Ya that is where I'm at. I send in low value books, but nothing that doesn't have a history in sales, and definitely not something just random fresh off the stands to be 1st to market. 

On 5/5/2024 at 2:00 PM, Kramerica said:

Well, you and I might take the book for $25.00 because we actually like it. These are people who have got it in their minds that their going to flip these books for the GPA high at that minute all the time. It's a time consuming gable where most everyone loses.

I was coming from all those who gave greggy a hard time for not prescreening  so from that frame of reference most of his bronze and copper (and depending on acquisition cost even in Canada shipping) it seemed a reject would be too much of a burn from a prescreen. 1st to market stuff would be hard to catch and release so I'm not "on that level"  

In other words, it cost you now the $10 reject and the cost to press to keep it raw, say $25 on its own.

To avoid a $36 cost to press and slab and come away with a slabbed 9.4? 

I must not have dealer issues, but I'd take the slab idk for $36, rather than have thrown $25 down the drain.

@Kramerica I guess I get it, I send in low value stuff, but that means minor minor minor keys and not just a random new book with no history. so idk