shadroch

It's a scummy move, even if it is allowed.

Switch" have "for" be".

Are you concerned the 2.0 you bought will arrive as a 1.8? I'm trying to imagine what further harm that book may get in the mail? Were the mail handler to fold up the envelope and slide it thru a door slot, would it lower the grade?

IF I submitted books, I'd want the grade ASAP so I could get some interest in them before I had them in hand. As I have lost all faith in these companies, it is a moot point.

I have no problem with restoration as long as it is disclosed and doesn't involve trimming. I think most of the hobby had a kneejerk reaction to CGC putting restored books into purple labels. I own a purple Avengers 1, a Superman 14, X-Men 1 and GS 1, and a purple BB28. Last week I bought a purple label Batman 3 off these boards. Of my personal graded comics, maybe 20% are purple labels.

One of the great things about being disorganized is you constantly" discover" stuff you had forgotten about.

Ad response numbers might be different.

Way back in 1983, I opened my first shop. Soon after, my sister became pregnant with her first child and my Mom approached me with a deal. She would give me $100 a month and I would put aside $200 worth of merchandise for the baby. Each month, I'd grab a few baseball cards, or wax boxes, comics, ect and she would hide them away in her closet. When my mom died, these boxes were no where to be found and it always bothered me . I didn't think anyone would steal them and hoped they were misplaced, not stolen. The baby was a boy, is my Godson and I'm proud to say last year he became the first member of my family to purchase a million dollar house. We were pretty close when I lived in NY but with his job, a wife and two kids we don't talk so much any more. So it was a bit of a surprise when he called and said he had found a few boxes that he thought might be the missing trove. They were in his moms garage and had his name on the sides of the box. My sister doesn't remember moving them, but somebody did. The first box was rather pedestrian, with wax boxes of baseball cards from 1984-1988 and a few factory sets. There was also a bunch of Topps team sets of 85 and 86 Mets and Yankees, a glossy Strawberry rookie and a nine card sheet of 1984 Don Mattingly's. A few of the wax boxes might bring $100 but no hidden treasure there. Then we got to the comics. First thing in the box was a Dark Knight Hardcover, and then three sets of Dark Knight 1-4, all in great shape. A dozen copies of Alpha Flight 12, and a half dozen Dreadstar #1s. A set of Contest of Champions , a few Bryne Superman #1s, a bunch of American Flagg #1s and then he struck gold. 20 copies of Thor 337, five in a bag and sitting in this box since they were picked off my new comic racks. A dozen Secret Wars 1 and 2, three copies of SW 8, two minty mint Spidey 252s, and five copies of Crisis 1, 7, 8 and 12. There were also some Secret Wars figures on the cards, as well as some Super Powers and a couple of GI Joe Star Brigade vehicles. I'm glad he found them, as I'd had a feeling they might have been nicked by a family member who had a long term drug addiction and who had access to them. He isn't sure what he is going to do with them, although I advised him to sell. He sent me a few photos but is going to open the comics and send better pictures. I think the Thors alone will bring in $5,000. and he might be looking at five figures for everything.

Does it mean you don't take physical possesion at the show? That can be a lifesaver. I've often passsed on buying something at a show because lugging it around all day or days and then getting it on a plane was a hassle.

I can't speak for others but if I buy a collection of 300 books for $3,000, keep 15 for myself and sell 285 books, each book has a cost of $10. 100 books for $100, and I sell 95 of them? The rest amount to a rounding error.

There really was no reason CGC didn't use a 100 point scale and give books grades like 87 or 83, but they didn't and they can't change now.

The OP states he thinks $2800 would balance this out. The seller agrees that some compensation is owed, but not nearly $2800. I'd like the OP to put forth his reasoning behind his figure, and the seller to name a number he thinks is fair. Then we will have a better understanding of where each is coming from. As I understand it, the OP had the book in hand, with an attached cover. It came back from CGC with a detached cover. I'm not sure how that is on the seller. That CGC or anyone grades a book with a fully detached cover anything over a 2.0 is bugfuggery at its worst.

Those have the same problem. You can stack them, but everytime you want a book that isn't in the top box, you need to start moving bins. Being able to access your books without conducting a chinese firedrill is priceless.

Be who you is, 'cause if you ain't who you is, you is who you ain't. Attributed to Luthor Price.

How long does your store allow you to keep things on layaway?

You can stack those, but then you have to move them around everytime you want to get to the bottom box. Drawer collectors sells boxes you can stack five high and still access every box without moving them constantly. I use their magazine boxes for CGC books. Some of my boxes are pushing 15 years old and have made multiple moves. A group of four is about $100 shipped.

A distributor may have re-issued the returned copies if stands were asking for them. Even in the 1980s, some comics sold better in some parts of the country and less well in others. As mentioned, almost anyone along the distribution chain could have added this.

I'm very comfortable calling it a 5.5.

These would be so much kooler if they had upside down rainbow signatures on them.

You should give the person a chance to fix the problem before you neg them.

1)It's not a defect? Is it supposed to happen? Does CGC possess secret technology that the other companies don't have? Fixing the NR problem in the first generation slabs was simple. Not now ,though. The new CGC slab eliminated the well known cure for newton rings. If slabs were regulated, CGC would be recalling every one of their new slabs. 2) If it isn't a defect, why doesn't anyone want them 3) Isn't one of the definitions of insanity doing the same thing over and over and hoping for different results? 4) We are in agreement here.

I wouldn't have left a neg for the seller unless he refused to take it back. There is also no way I would keep that book. As I've stated many times- If you keep lowering your expectations, CGC will eventually meet them.

No book with a Newton Ring should ever leave CGC's facility. It is not an act of nature, it is a design flaw. I currently own over 200 slabs and not one of them has a Newton problem. It is a horrible defect that affects a books value and the people who don't hold CGC responsible are as much to blame as the geniuses who designed it.

Okay, boomer.