Badger

Shot through the glass to really hot, um,...summer day.

Timely 2 to Timely 62

Why are people getting bent out of shape over CGC asking for a receipt? Can anyone tell me an example of receiving a refund, from someone who did not sell the item in question, without being asked for a receipt? Seriously, it is the start of the refund conversation/dance. If you have a swapped 9.8 ASM #194, is CGC just supposed to send you a check for the last 90 day GPA average which is $2716? What if you are one of the poor souls who paid above $5,000 for your copy? How would CGC know this without a receipt? Take a deep breath, settle your butt down in your sofa, deep breath, and explain you do not have a receipt but you bought the book from X for this much money at this auction, convention, or back alley. I have confidence that CGC will make you whole. They want this whole incident to fade into memory like the Ewert scandal. The best way to do this is to get the impacted people paid and hushed. A better question would be that if you want your book back, how would CGC return it? Obviously they would have to return it but it has been broken out of the original holder for inspection. I feel they should grade it for free and offer to return it properly encased and graded. Would they do that or would they just send you your raw comic?

My first Mopsy. I think it is a very underrated title.

derailing to riding the rail

Beautiful copy!

Phantom Lady to tangible lady

Congratulations! A killer book to own regardless of the grade or level of restoration.

Laugh to Pep

Sly look to sly look

Wow, oh, wow! That is an incredibly cool book! NIce grab, Sagii!

"Close Call" to "You call that Clothes?"

touch to getting touched up

This is a crazy beautiful book!

Really didn't buy a whole lot this year. Thought I was going to land a moderate size fish but it slipped the hook at the last second. These 3 are probably the cream of the crop for the year.

take it

Flash #125 $250 includes shipping USA. Add $25 for international. SOLD! All proceeds to JimJum.

Strapped down to tied up

I have 2 books that I really should get the conservation removed but I am too "afeared" as they say.I had removed two tear seals on an internal page that did not affect the grade one way or the other but that is as far as I have gone with removal. Not saying I never will have color touch removed but I haven't yet. You are right about the difficulty to predict a grade after restoration removal. That is why I say they could put an "estimated" grade with their usual caveats about how their grades do not mean anything.

Totally agree. CGC should state both grades on the green label and an "estimation" of the unrestored grade. That would help pricing restored books tremendously and would hopefully stop some of the wild variations I've seen in pricing.

Dispatched to angry gargoyles to wrestling with Octopus

There was an insane dislike for restored books among collectors waaayyy before CGC was even a pipe dream. I'm not sure how much the purple label played a factor with collectors who were around before CGC. Still, it is an interesting thought experiment: what if CGC had chosen green as the restored label and purple as the qualified? Would green be hated as much as the real life "purple label of death?" Green certainly does not seem to help the qualified books, currently, so