shadroch

Would depend who is behind the new venture. As oppossed to the people that are behind CGC? how many years did it take to find out who owned them?

I haven't heard a peep I don't really expect to I think CGC will address this in public, not via PM with you.

The man of her dreams was married to her sister.

Start high and ask for Best Offers. You might want to consider moving a few things cheaply in the beginning so that people see how you ship, and you get a few transactions under your wing before trying to move some better stuff. i'd also lose the bold print. No one else uses it, and that is not by mistake.

There was a Silver Age club that was run out of a shop on Long island in the mid 1990s. It was pretty kool. You paid $5 per monthly meeting and the shop provided donuts, cake and soda/coffee. There was a discussion period where people would trash Romita in favor of Kirby or tell how Jim Shooters Legion was far superior to post Ditko Spidey, and so on. Best part was the trading. You could bring a few books to trade with the other members. This lasted about a year, but then the shop relocated to a spot further away and the Valiant/Image craze started and SA books were in the toilet so the club pretty much imploded.

I think you boast of claims that you know nothing about. With a degree in Biology and previous forensics experience I have a pretty good grasp of what is possible to accomplish with a stereomicroscope. Coloration and surface changes in pulp over time is something quantifiable. Wasn't your degree in Physics a few days ago? One degree in the WC, a different one here. You truly are multi-talented.

Timing it so your book is set to be finalized when all the top graders are not around to do so is gaming the system, unless you want to think it was a coincidence. It shows that the person was pretty familiar with CGCs workings and from that I think it shows he is a pretty heavy submitter. Sending a newbie friend here to say the submitter was aware of this but don't see the need to respond, if true, is just weak.

Has CGC ever decertified a book for something like this? If you couldn't look it up by the serial numbers, it would certainly lower its future value.

We were told the only two people who can give an authorized statement are out of the office today. A response of sorts. We were also told by a friend of the submitter that they were aware of this thread but didn't see a need to comment here. I'm dubious of the second response.

This is what happens to items retired for such reasons. Destruction isn't necessary (nor was that what I implied) as they end up in collections with no intent to liquidate. Now if only I can find out how one gets on the list to receive these retired items... Open up a retirement home for unwanted slabs.

Throw the raw book in a lake. If it floats, it is trimmed and should be burned at the stake. If it sinks, it was not trimmed.

What are the chances the person who submitted this.book is unaware of the thread?

I have no inside info, but I assume the page count is done prior to grading and any damage to the inside is notated for the graders. I forget the number but I remember being stunned at the number of books they graded at a Wizard show a few years back.

Several people have said it would only cost $100 to have this thing walked thru, as it would only be 3% of the FMV of a restored book. I dont believe they are correct. The original owner paid much much more for his walk thru and the new buyer would not be submitting the book as as a PLOD, but rather as a raw book. This wasn't a hundred dollar shot in the dark, this was a $500 shot in the dark. Unless the new owner lives within driving distance of Sarasota, it was an $800 shot in the dark. Lets see where this book ends up for sale. I have my suspicions, already.

You can say it a third time if you wish. I will still disagree with it, especially if it turns out the new owner is a high volume submitter.

It seems obvious the person who walked this thru is a forumite as he bought it on a sales thread here. His silence is a bit troubling. I can't imagine it won't come out eventually, and its always better to get in front of a situation like this. There aren't more than a couple of dozen folks here with the budget for the book. It most certainly wasn't me.

The sad thing is that this incident doesn't change my feelings towards CGC one iota. I have as much faith in them as I have had for several years now. Which is to say, none. Five years ago, this would have surprised, even shocked me. No longer.

Trimmed books always get a Purple label No they don't. There was a trimmed blue label in last months Comic Connect action

Coinees pay extra for nicely toned coins. Maybe this will be a fuure niche market in comics, as well.

It absolutely kills the value, as it's an incomplete comic that CGC markets using the Green label. On GPA a green 9.0 copy is between 850.00 to 1K. And a non green 9.0 is between 1700.00 and 2K. That's crazy, and I can't believe the prices are that close between a complete comic (an 9.0) and an incomplete one (a 1.5) - probably a lot of people don't understand that it is they're buying. Or perhaps they know exactly what they are buying and they are not the ones out of touch with the market. Who ever said a market has to be rational?

OMG, that's got to be the dumbest poll I've ever seen, and whoever created that should be beaten to a pulp. No one ever disputed whether Roy Thomas took the Speedo-wearing, caveman Him and used that template to develop the new superhero Warlock, just as Greer Nelson is both The Cat and Tigra, only that the transformation is so severe, that Him does not resemble Warlock is any tangible way. They just took Him as the clay for Warlock because of copyright issues, and wanted to transform a character they already owned. Warlock was its own unique concept. Tha'ts not really correct. Roy Thomas chose to use an already existing character because he didn't want to lose the ownership of the character if he created it from scratch.

How ironic is it that when I closed my last store, I kept fifty plus boxes of late copper and threw away a half dozen spinners.

I have no dog in the fight and rarely bid on SC stuff as it always sells for much more than I am willing to bid, but if Steve B and Mark Zaid have no issue with them employing him, that is good enough for me.

Is it confirmed that this guy is the head buyer for Sparkle City?

Why does an investment banker work for Sparkle City?