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At least I know who not to buy comics from. 

On 1/24/2022 at 2:34 PM, kav said:

well they use peroxide in paper production and recycling.

Probably because it breaks down the cellulose fibers. It can also cause blistering in the paper.

http:// https://www.jstor.org/stable/3179774

The peroxide deteriorates the paper fibers. Anyone doing this is ultimately damaging comics for a quick buck!!! They should be run out of the hobby.

On 1/12/2022 at 7:31 PM, Troy Division said:

It has now been 8 business days with radio silence from CGC

Their radio transmitter is broke.

On 1/2/2022 at 3:57 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

They could have at least made them Sig Series 

Yeah, imagine how much more money they would sell for if they were signed by "ghost" Stan Lee or "ghost" Jack Kirby! Oh, the signatures don't look real? What do expect from a ghost?  

On 1/1/2022 at 8:53 AM, I like pie said:

This has to be a joke...

Looks more like the CGC thinks that we are the joke! People are going to pay stupid sums of money for what ... five bucks of paper, plastic and two used staples? The manpower overhead was a bare minimum. I'm sure the CGC is getting paid for their services, I just wonder how much. Obviously these are "modern comics", but what about value? My guess is that they get a cut after they've been sold. 

So, why did CGC do this? This idea never should have reached the light of day! 

On 8/17/2021 at 4:10 PM, kav said:

You whopper!

That's what she said!!

Krang cosplay anyone?

6 hours ago, theCapraAegagrus said:

There's a lot of shade thrown at CGC over there. It's a decent place to talk comics in general, but they've very... "Loyal"...

Of course, we call them "Voldy", but there are some very logical discussions about all things graded comics around here.

Yes, such logical discussions we have here. LOL!

17 minutes ago, joeypost said:

The Voldy boards are having a field day with this. 

I had to laugh when I saw this one!!

2 hours ago, onlyweaknesskryptonite said:

Sorry they are in French as well..

I believe Alterna Comics use newsprint. At least they say they do. I have yet to but one of their comics.

12 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I'm not surprised. I know what you said in my thread. You said that CGC started referring to "UK Editions" as "UK Price Variants" as a result of Voldy doing it first, not because I put the case to Matt Nelson directly and he agreed to make the change based on the arguments I put forward. Why else do you think they chose my thread to announce it? Quite why you want to deny me that small pleasure is a mystery to me. 

 

If I had known that back then, I would have apologized. Since I am just finding this out now, I will apologize here. I am sorry that I assumed something without knowing all the facts. Kudos to you for your accomplishment!!! I mean this sincerely!! You should feel pleasure for your part in that change!!!

56 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

I don't know why you are surprised. I mentioned that fact to you back on May 5th in the Marvel pence thread. 

Here is the link to the page.

4 minutes ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

But all that said, there's only one guarantee: the unshared opinion will have no impact, ever.

On that, I totally agree with you!!

All this talk about CGC listening to people on the boards is hilarious to me!!! Yes they may take some things into consideration, but the bottom line IS the bottom line. After years of talk on these boards, it took Voldey noting the Pence Variants to make CGC do the same. And what about Newton rings? After years of complaining and a poll on the forum, the official line is STILL that some amount of Newton rings is acceptable. Meanwhile, there are two competitors who have proven that Newton rings don't need to be there. Granted, those two each have their own issues, but Newton rings isn't one of them!!! Sorry, if anything, I see CGC reacting to competition a lot faster than to anything stated here. I think some people are over stressing the influence they perceive that they have.

4 hours ago, NoMan said:

I'm hiding my torch violence with gun violence. 

Torches don't kill people, people kill people!!

@TwoPiece Yep!!! The series is only seven issues long. It was published back in the 90's. Here is the ComicVine link to the series.

@TwoPiece do you just collect legit #666's?? Or would Milk and Cheese #6 be of interest to you? 

I quit ordering from them after I received a shipment where it looked like someone hacked a loogie all over the plastic that was covering the comics. No comics were damaged, thankfully. I emailed them and they responded with "So sorry that happened. Have you seen our latest store variant?" Yeah ... I don't know what I was expecting, but I was expecting a little more than that!!!

1 hour ago, Get Marwood & I said:

In the case of pence variants, the books themselves have been around for nearly 60 years! Whether it has taken 58 or 59 of them for the grading companies to catch up, I'm not too fussed. The fact that they are correctly labelling them now is the good news. 

I couldn't agree more!!! Cheers!!!

I just have to chime in. I find it curious that this thread was started in 2017. And judging by the first post, this has been a topic that has been around for quite some time. Yet, when CGC finally decides to put price variants on the label, everyone is saying that CGC is finally listening. I can't help but wonder if CGC would have done this if Voldey hadn't already started doing it in the fall of 2018. My initial thought is that people would still be asking for it. Say what you want, but I'm glad that there is some competent competition out there. I think it has made CGC a better company all around. Just an observation.