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Does the 10% member discount apply to Pressing fees?

UPDATE:  After a week of calling everyday and and getting no answers, having my postman personally looking into the issue, and my mom going to our USPS office and leaving empty handed, I am just now told it's been sitting in that same post office for a WEEK and that they had put it with the international mail....how the hell does that happen?!  How does a package that is supposed to be under max security get put in the completely wrong place?  AND they can't even figure out the mistake?!  There is nothing international about it!  So now I will be going to pick it up tomorrow, a solid 10 days after it was supposed to be delivered.  Oh and the original tracking info was completely wrong, said it was an hour away and going to be delivered on a Monday, but then delivery was attempted on Wed.  The USPS is completely inept when it comes to registered mail...I am setting up a FedEx account and never using registered mail again.  

4 hours ago, HOTFLIPS said:

Here is another one to add, he is more than a deadbeat / loser. He is just a lowlife.

vegas959

Bought something from me back in June, He was going back and forth with me saying the product was damaged. So the usual thing is to file a claim and send pictures, He file a claim but never sent pictures. After the 30 day return policy, he decided to send the items back. (It was 10 Blind Ghostbuster figure boxes). Today, I get the box and ebay automatically refunded him. He sent back a broken light bulb, rusty hinges and old screws. This was a hassle with ebay, I was on the phone for 2 hours, but eBay wound up reversing the decision and awarded me back the money, but this lowlife still got away with it. He simply will find a way to buy something, file a claim and asked to return it, send it back and Ebay sees that the item was returned (tracking number) and awards the buyer. 

this is a huge loophole in the system....a buyer did that to me with a signed comic, requested refund and sent back an unsigned version of the same comic...total scammer and eBay did nothing for me despite calling etc!  a buyer can send back an empty package and the seller will usually be screwed in that instance and in any case will have to put a lot of time and headache into it.  

6 hours ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

But the argument doesn't work, because both sides aren't equal parties. The seller is trying to sell. Their job is to persuade someone to buy what they have to sell. The buyer has the luxury of choosing any number of sellers or items to have an interest in. The seller does not have the luxury of designating a buyer. 

In other words: the buyer who is interested in the item knows the seller is out there, with the item to sell. The seller, however, has no idea that there's an interested buyer, even if that interest is only a little. You don't know what you don't know, and the opportunity to try to negotiate does have value, even if indirectly. Whether the buyer would respond to a $165 counter or not is, in this case, irrelevant: the value is in knowing that there's someone out there with interest who MIGHT be persuadable. I've sold books after literally years of the buying peck peck pecking at it, seeing what I would sell for. I knew they were out there, and I would occasionally reach out to them and let them know a book was relisted...and, eventually, it resulted in a sale. With auto-reject...I never know they exist.

And...unless I'm mistaken, as eBay keeps tweaking their system...offers that come in are (or used to be) reflected in a listing. That signaled to other potential buyers that there was other interest in the item, even if the one making the offer made a silly lowball. But auto-rejects never show up on the page, so no other bidders would know someone else was interested. 

This may no longer be the case; if not, it's no longer relevant.

I see what you are saying but it really doesn't matter because if the $120 offer person was willing to pay substantially more, then surely they would submit another offer, or two or three to get above the limit....otherwise they would never get near a price that could be agreed upon.  In other words, the person that gets an auto-reject at $120 and does not even re-offer at $125 will never negotiate to $150, $165 etc....and the 1% potential sale opportunity where that might occur is simply not worth the time/hassle of negotiating the 99% of cases that it won't occur.  

11 minutes ago, Bomber-Bob said:

Another small bonus of information. If you use Registered mail, CGC bills you up front, possibly months before you get the book. Using Fedex on the CGC form, you are billed by Fedex the day after delivery. 

Appreciate it, feeling pretty stupid now...USPS is such a joke, and the people are just the best and brightest you know?  I sent my poor mom the other day to our local USPS to see if she could get the package..,and they refused to even check if it was there!  

1 hour ago, Bomber-Bob said:

You are correct, if you miss the original delivery on a Registered mail it's good luck after that. You are correct, tracking is a joke, actually there is no real tracking.  You are correct, the delivery for Registered mail is slow, very slow. You also didn't mention how expensive it is. So why do you continue to choose Registered mail ? 

I thought that was the only choice, at least CGC made it seem that way, the forms say something about $100 insurance limit for FedEx/UPS.  I don't have a FedEX account if that makes a difference.  

Somewhat unrelated but i'm having a nightmare right now trying to get my USPS registered mail package from CGC.  USPS Registered Mail is not only slow but the tracking is a joke, and the mail carriers often don't even know where the package is even if you investigate.  they attempted delivery almost a week ago and I scheduled a redelivery and waited all day/night that day and the next & they never redelivered and of course the tracking never updates after that....I had to send my mom to the post office and no luck, been calling them for days and people keep saying they will call me back, they literally don't know where my package is even though it's been in my town for ALMOST A WEEK since the original delivery attempt....basically if you don't have someone at home at all time then you are screwed because once the first delivery attempt fails then good luck...this happens every other time to me.  and my local usps is NOT open saturdays and I can't go during their meager business hours.  whole thing sucks

1 hour ago, Ladic said:

does it mention anything on the SDCC website?

No, the SDCC website is crazy and the Artist's Alley list is not reliable, last year there were several people there that were not on the list.  But as far as Starlin it seems he won't be there and doesn't come to the west coast much it seems, but goes to plenty of cons on the east coast.....BS!! 

On 6/21/2018 at 6:33 PM, Dino-Mutt said:

Would it be of any advantage to have a blue label saying .5 over having a qualified grade? Wouldn't it be more informative to say this book would be a 3.5 or 9.0, except for the missing centerfold that affects the story, than to have both books slabbed as .5? I may be confused, but if i have 2 copies of Amazing Fantasy #15, one in great condition say a 8.0, and 1 a 2.0 looking condition, but both are missing centerfolds, What good is a .5 slab on both books? Am i just confused?  

Agreed...the "0.5" grade for a missing ad page etc. is ridiculous because CGC is not doing any GRADING, and the "condition" does not matter....makes zero sense.  To me a missing page or ad should always be given a green label and the rest of the book graded as usual....either that or a missing ad page for example should only drop the grade down a smaller about...but taking it down to 0.5 makes the whole thing pointless.

@Kevlar will you have a booth at SDCC?  If so under what name?.....and will you be accepting Signature CGC submissions?   thanks

Will you be accepting subs at SDCC 2018?  If so for what artist/author signings?  Romita? Lee? Starlin?  thanks

I'm finding it hard to know who will be signing at SDCC, especially based on past experience.  Does anyone know if Jim Starlin will be there?  Any other big old school names like Romita Sr.? Sinnott?  Neal Adams is usually there.  Hoping that people can share any knowledge on this thread.

46 minutes ago, revat said:

it doesn't look obvious to me on the any websites that he's going.  Of course plenty of creators and celebs to show up without being listed ahead of time too.  If you go to the signature room subforum you may be able to find some CGC SS facilitators and pm them privately to ask.

You'd think the Thanos creator would want to cash it in this summer.

Cash in indeed! that would make sense.  thanks

Does anyone know if he will be there?  and if so will he be signing for CGC/CBCS?  It's so hard to figure out what artists will be at SDCC, and most of the time there is no way to know ahead of time. 

For the life of me I cannot determine....will Jim Starlin be at SDCC 2018??!!!

I have a high grade Silver Surfer 44 (Copper Age) that I'm considering getting graded but have hesitated because the inner pages all have a distinct waviness to them (not so much the cover but it's clear on the inner pages)....anyone know how CGC handles this grade-wise?  I obviously don't want to send in a book for grading that is a 9.4 or better and have it come back much lower because of this issue.  I have pressed the book myself several times but can't seem to get rid of the waves.  I read somewhere it could be a manufacturing/ink issue...there are no signs of moisture damage.  I had 2 other copies of the same book and they all had this issue.

I have a Silver Surfer 44 that I'm considering getting graded but have hesitated because the inner pages all have a distinct waviness to them (not so much the cover but it's clear on the inner pages)....anyone know how CGC handles this grade-wise?  I don't want to send in a book for grading that is a 9.4 or better and have it come back much lower because of this issue.  I have pressed the book myself several times but can't seem to get rid of the waves.

I watched an online (but local) auction once too in So Cal, and the lots went for WAY more than I expected.  I recall a old spidey lot that was nice but went for more than double what I would have paid.  I have seen this more on Ebay too...in the past there were a lot of great lots but now it seems the big random lots are harder to come by and sellers have things more planned out, and lots of decent/good stuff always go for more an I expect.  I used to think buying in quantity was cheaper but that is not the case today because large lots of say silver age seem to go for more than the individual cost....sure the buyer saves in shipping and time in hunting down all those issues...but in the past I think there were better bargains.  I think theer are just WAY more online sellers and collectors now, and unlike in the past, with the internet virtually every collector is to some extent a seller.   

thanks!

My subscription is up on 7/18 and I need to renew (since i'm submitting books in person on 7/19 at SDCC...go figure)....and the CGC site says I get $20 off for renewal, but do I get the same $150 credit when I renew (i.e. the same credit as when I got my original membership)?  

My subscription is up on 7/18 and I need to renew (since i'm submitting books in person on 7/19 at SDCC...go figure)....and the CGC site says I get $20 off for renewal, but do I get the same $150 credit when I renew (i.e. the same credit as when I got my original membership)?  

FF were the first superhero team for Marvel and paved the way but no way FF1 has more value than ASM1....let's be real, the FF are a side act compared to Spider-man

@comix4fun   you beat me to it wit the Highlander reference...in the end, there can be only one!!!

It's ridiculous that merely missing an ad page brings a book to a 0.5 PR, and even more ridiculous that it does not matter if its a Story page or Ad page....a story page I can understand but seriously who cares about an ad page that much?!   And if missing an ad page etc. makes a book a 0.5 then what is CGC doing?...they are not "grading" anything and what is the point of sending it in?  Anyone can see that a book is missing a page, CGC is supposing be grade the condition and there is nothing to grade when it's already a 0.5...it's pointless.

Thanks for the  input.  I guess i'm less critical than most collectors, and if I can get the same book with a missing ad page at a significant discount then I'll take it.  I could really care less about a missing ad page esp. in a slabbed book (i.e. an ad page that would never be seen anyway).  If the appearance of the book or the story is affected, or or if it's a Marvel Value Stamp missing (something that is specifically sought after), then of course that's important.