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Looks wayeeee better than 6.0. Is there ct scrape on lower staple on bc also?

Hard to see that your mentioned pedo-subtext shouldnt be implied, since they share the Wayne manor and Robin was takin in as minor.

The demise of the last stand. Now they have also started to dissolve the dark Bat mythos. This po-mo wave will apparently not stop untill everything i can remember from my youth has been deconstructed, turned upside down, dissolved, re-constructed and de-mystified. We know this po mo wave to be relentless and it will never cease, untill also this mythos has been ‘modernized’ and made through and through political correct. Lol.

The Blackstone frenzy from back in the spring is fizzling out. Now this is felt Even in the price results of keys. That frenzy was apparently driven by a group of people trying to take advantage of them being ‘in the know’ about the comming blackstone takeover.

Even if I was rich which i am not. Even filthy rich and i owned the church action 1. If i had to pay someone 120 K to get my book graded, i would probably never escape the feeling of having been utterly and completely ripped off.

Looks like Volde has also removed his max cap. Lol ...

Change is apparently washing over this hobby right now with great speed. We have seen unprecedented 300% price corrections for many books and large market segments just during the spring. New auction houses are entering the market. CGC morphing into a Blackstone property. Worldwide attention, etc. I think it will be interesting to see how the relation pans out between the grading houses and auction houses in the future. The pressure is on. But we are at grading fees now for the very top books in the hobby at 60 K a pop. For 15 minutes of work. I think that certainly opens up some waters in which the competition can paddle. The big books will just continue to get bigger. Among these higher echelons and in this transforming market, change can happen fast. Even cgc should hold on to their hat and watch out in such environment.

In terms of quality and reliability i feel there is no intrinsic diff between Borocks voldemort slabbing and Nelsons cgc slabbing. Other than Nelson have a smarter holder.

Oh sorry. I didnt really mean that !

Sitting in mommys basement grading funny books? Get a life.

I bought from him Doug several times. One time though he shipped the 4 slabs i had purchased by squeezing them into a box designed to carry max 3 slabs. As a consequence 1 slab was damaged in transit (error #1). Afterwards he made ME pay for return shipping when the damaged holder was returned for reholdering (error #2). He thus disregarded the fact that the damaged was a consequence of his faulty packaging. Pissed me off pretty bad imho.

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Your post exemplify what im trying to counter here. Your premise is: the grading label and grading brand decides the value of your action 1. If your tec 27 doesnt have this or that label from this or that grading house, your wont get your price. I posit: that increasingly your action 1 will sell itself. And the grading houses will as a consequence chase the possibility to holder those few books which transcend the hobby. The grading houses will have to reckon that people increasingly buy the book not the grading label or brand.

off course I could be wrong 😎

Every time another voldemort Tec 27 ticks into the census its a knee in the nuts for Blackstone. But They know what needs to be done. And that fight to attract those books will spiral down towards free slabbing for the few rarefied unicorn grails. Its really not rocket science ...

Its not true that owners of unicorn books have no leverage. Above I have described that leverage. And I predict a scenario, where the grading houses will compete to tie their specific brand to the supreme aura of the very best unicorn books in the hobby. They will come to offer free grading for these books. Definitely Not out of generosity, but based in the necessity, that the competitor doesnt stamp his brand on that church action 1 or whatever.

Lets assume theoretically, that the truly superior, unicorn mega grails at some point are all graded by CGC, - what kind of signal do you think that sends to the marketplace and the hobby? Have you any idea what that kind of signal is worth for a brand in terms of marketing, visibility, growth, prestige, etc.? I guess not ...

In lieu of the competition between the grading-houses (symbolical as well as quantitative on marketshares) it would probably be quite naive to believe, that you would have to pay 50K to get your 2 mill Tec 27 graded. The auction houses are probably very eager, to get their specific grading trademark tied to the extremely rare mega grails in the hobby. So I say that the owner of a such tec book has the upper hand - not CGC. In due time I predict, that the CGC will pay the owner of a such book to grade and holder it with the CGC certification-trademark. Not the other way around. For CGC to grade a mega grail is 15 minutes of work for them. And when scans of a such CGC'ed mega grail afterwards starts circulating on social media, auctions houses, hearsay etc. it carries a huge symbolical vaue for the grading house in question. It is a huge exposure of their grading-brand as it is tied to the most cherished books. This is simply a hugely effective way - symbolically - to dominate the competitors.

We are black online ...

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Dont look for “rationality” here. Look for greed. Lots of it. Black as stone.

In this case CGC is askin 55 K for 15 minutes of grading effort + a plastic holder. Thats pretty aggressive. I wonder if ‘The Other Guy’ still offers his 3 K cap?

55 K grading fee. That is ridiculous. But very “blackstoney”

At 2 mill that would be a 60 K grading fee a pop 👍

Church tec 27. Holy hell!