comicjel

Congrats!... Get them ready for the 9.9 pre-screen!

How about this one... "Hey Stan, please sign right on the black area where nobody will be able to see it!"... https://www.ebay.com/itm/296248366800?itmmeta=01HQR9EYMG4B3M8DJKH3B336KC&hash=item44f9c756d0:g:Da8AAOSwoWBl1sqi

I buy a lot of CGC comics, but I continue to look for raw comics as well - I just find that, as time goes by, it is getting harder to find nice raw comics. These counterfeits do scare the Hell out of me though! - hopefully there will always be a small tell, but who knows!?!

You can also get a sense of an EBAY seller's typical inventory by what they have successfully sold... when they show no high valued comics having been historically sold, at the same moment that they are selling a bunch of high value comics, a little more care and due diligence is well advised!

I believe so, but with higher value books, prob better to have them screened first - that way if they feel that there is not a good chance for a bump-up, you save the pressing and grading fees (you may need to be willing to have the book pressed to do the screening though) and there is a fee, but it is less than the grading fee.

Yes, I completely know what you mean... I have had all kinds of shifts with page Q through the years - usually moving in better direction, but every once in a while a step back the other way.

Dude, you need to start looking for nicer books

Curious, what is the bump-up fee when you submit for a reholder, and get a grade bump? I can't find that on the fee schedule??

It sure did... and a heat gun!

I do not like to mix in too much speculation when Comicwiz is so carful about keeping everything as objective as possible, but I believe the scammer could very well have been scamming through reholdering well before the holders that had the label in a separate section (or custom labels). It just became easier when the case changed, and the custom labels gave him a better excuse for having more reholders done - but again, this is just my suspicion based on what I am seeing so far.

Comicwiz will correct me if I am wrong, but the 3 books he has displayed all may still have been reholdered - I do not think we can conclude that they have not been reholdered.

If you look at the weld on the label (under the CGC Hologram) it is in a different spot between the two books - so I think that is a new label - which implies a reholder - but as you said in a different post, no way to really make the call yet.

I still think a small scan of the actual comic on the label would be good, but if not that, they should consider a hologram on the label in addition to the outside case - as they close the loophole with the reholdering, I suspect there will be an increase in counterfeit everything (like the ASM 667).

Fake label for sure... the white inside the "9" should look much more like an oval, not a circle - there are other minor issues with the spacing of the words and dates. Only $500... I almost feel sorry for the scammer!