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[begin sarcasm] Comic Book Dealer (or Seller) with highly questionable Morals and Ethics, that's not possible [end sarcasm]

Nixon Ends Convertibility of U.S. Dollars to Gold and Announces Wage/Price Controls August 1971 With inflation on the rise and a gold run looming, President Richard Nixon's team enacted a plan that ended dollar convertibility to gold and implemented wage and price controls, which soon brought an end to the Bretton Woods System. https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/gold-convertibility-ends Before my time, but i learned it in Elementary school

Tricky D!cky Nixon and his posse ended that in 1971.

You may both be correct. I've had re-holders missing CPV notations that I sent back as ME; last time same cert number (in 2022), but that not always the case, no pun...

and Probably off-eBay. I'd expect no less as they are Comic Book Seller/Dealers after all!

Simple solution for CGC is to stop messing up so, so, so very much. There seriously need to implement Six Sigma like disciplines.

Unless he submitted the books, how would he know the MVS remains intact inside a Hulk 181? The answer is he does not.

Always been allowed and in eBay's earlier days all that was needed was an email address to open an account - that's it nothing else was required.

Definitely not the one pictured in CGC's DB! However the one in the DB does not look like 9.8 either , the upper right corner should lower it to 9.4 or very weak 9.6. https://www.cgccomics.com/certlookup/4318979004/

11.4

At what threshold is Risk+Expenses > Profit ? I'm asking not stating...

Ofttimes low tech and analog protections are the most difficult to defeat. Seems to me CGC or any top Tier grading service needs a dept akin to what the US Secret Service does for the US Treasury and that is; prevent, detect, investigate and go after counterfeiters and rouge insiders. If CGC does have one of those departments, then frankly they have failed

I say Yes.

Prior to posting it in this thread it was added here;

So not the #2 all-time NFL touchdown passing leader? Darn, I had very high hopes this went all the way up to Goodell!

'sup CS. I do seriously and truly sympathize on the individual level how this has impacted your Holiday season and possibly time with your families.

Even if only online from the scammer what about the purchasers of the many books then selling them? Mathematically impossible given it been going on for years that it's confined only to "eBay and IG".

Silver Lining? Many who have been scammed will exit the hobby. Combined with a sinking comic market and this situation prices in general should drop nicely for true collectors. Winter not only is coming for many sellers/dealers, it may also be a Nuclear one. Only those sellers/dealers with luck + true business acumen will survive the lean times ahead...

Kew Gardens is Queens County How about this; Can you at least say that YOUR suspect is in the Brooklyn-Queens area? If it's a yes than that narrows it down to 4.9 Million People or ~1.4% of the USA population

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Agreed book at best is 9.4 . At this juncture there are no more coincidences only more potential evidence.

234? did you mean ASM 238

Well, anyone the past several years who has purchased via eBay ANY 3rd Gen CGC slab Newsstand version of; ASM 194,238,252,300 Hulk 181,340, New Mutants 98 for example, should certainly look at their books and be prepared to soil themselves. Given the scope and amount of years this has been going on it seems mathematically impossible that none of those tainted slabs have not made it to other venues.

No worries, very understandable. You can get all that info simply by reading through pages 1-156 of this thread.

I too have been dealing with Will for 20 years and have found him to be a totally straight shooter. Will represents the "best" of Comic Art Dealers! Even if I'm not so sure that is a positive statement