Hi. First off - don't waste money buying markers to send in with your books. CGC and / or the creators will provide them and my guess is they won't use sent in markers anyways. But just know that it is the creator's discretion as to which color to use - even if you put a note on the book asking for a specific color. Hopefully, the creator honors the color request - but if you look in the thread about the private signings (see below) there are plenty of examples of where color requests were not honored.
Lastly, in that same thread and others found in the boards, you will find examples of books (i.e. blue label) being cracked open and resubmitted for Signature Series only for the grades of those books to drop - for whatever reason. It;s simply a risk you take when you decide to crack open an already graded book - even if you asked for it to get pressed just in case. And if you are already "terrified" about sending your books in and again, for whatever reason, they do not stay a 9.8 then maybe you shouldn't do it. Your risk / your call.
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