Nemogollom

Another childhood book.  This book isn't worth anything, but was waiting for Stan's signature before he passed.  I just have a warm spot for the absurdity of this book, and it even has an Oilers jersey.  Complete with Canadian government Health and Welfare ad on the back.  :P

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

 @Nemogollom you kept'em in great condition!

Thanks, when I was a kid I used to sell cards and comics (booths at shows, etc), so I kept everything in decent shape even after reading them.

But, that said, I'm also picky on what I send in.  I have tons of boxes I need to dump that didn't make their grade worth slabbing.  I filtered a ton, but even after I sent in about 200 books to be slabbed, I was getting a >90% pre-screen rate (I did a bunch at 9.8 and some at 9.6 depending on projected value).  These books clearly weren't in the pre-screen as I had them signed.

I guess I need to head to a LCS or something to unload the extra boxes.  I might make one last pass to pull out my favourites.  Most are in 9.6-9.8+ condition but the cost of slabbing and selling isn't worth the effort or just breaks even.

10 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I was nervous to say cause flip may be a dirty word, but to answer your question, since Feb 1st...

You could sell your 9.8 matte right now and cover your cost to slab these books, and hold on the glossy for fmv.... 

 

I hadn't looked at the prices lately, but that's crazy.  I have 2 glossy SS ones (shooter and layton) coming back still, and another one (i've previously posted on here) of SS shooter/layton and erroneously Stan Lee.  Hope they're all back in time to capitalize on some of that. 

27 minutes ago, Bomber-Bob said:

UNless CGC has changed their policy on a review, if they do regrade it, you are charged a regrading fee. In my experience, the fee was one tier below the original submission. 

Sorry, that is correct, I was mistaken.  It was a reholder fee regardless as they'll crack it to take a look, then you'll pay a (potentially) lowered grading fee if they think it'll be a higher grade.  In my case it was a 9.6 to a 9.8, where the 9.6 had no comments and my only guess was they thought the artwork caused spine stress.  They ended up agreeing with me and adjusting it.  That said, I've put through over 150 books and while a few I think fell in this bucket, it wasn't really worth the review except that one and a couple I haven't sent in yet.  Most of my other modern books it wasn't worth the time or additional cost.

1 minute ago, www.alexgross.com said:

i agree but there are no creases i can see at all!! what should i do?

You can send it in with a bite and ask for a review.  If they decide it could be incorrectly graded then they'll crack it and regrade it (charging you a reholder fee), otherwise send it back to you with comments.  Basically the grade shouldn't drop.  Another option is to send it into CCS for a press and then a grading after.

I've had success both ways, but I've only send in a review book for something that I couldn't see other than the artwork making it look line spine stress.

15 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Looks like Stan signed them first, so "Claremont signed over Stan..".

Yeah, I hadn't even looked too close at the dates as I had a couple of batches of books for Stan.  That's funny, I assume Chris either thought he had enough room there, or couldn't tell that was Stan's signature vs the art.  heh.

And some more random ones.

More... I can't remember if I posted one of the Iron Man books or not, and I mixed up what I got in this month vs older on those ones.

Some x-men that came back recently.  Not all great, but books I liked when growing up.  And, I was a little bummed about Stan signing overtop of Chris' signature, but it's Stan... :P

And scanning more...  Not the best placement or colour for Stan's sigs, but given the timing I was happy they were able to get to him...  Most of my signed books I'm going to hang as rotating artwork in my house, so the kid in me thinks it's neat that he was able to sign them.

Some more from last week.  Wasn't too happy with a couple of grades there (Iron Man, Gauntlet), and kinda funny that Frank signed the book twice.

A few more books.  CGC is going to recase the Uncanny 266 as the label says Adam Kubert and not Andy.

17 minutes ago, MGsimba77 said:

Only negative is that you can't look up a specific title like "amazing Spider-man" or "incredible Hulk" instead they force you to search by just the character's name & look through a list of titles involving this character. This is a pain especially when searching Spiderman or X-Men. Hope that helps.

Well, it's more keyword searching, and you can make it find exact titles if you know exactly what they are and they don't overlap others.  In the two examples "amazing spider man, the" or "incredible hulk, the" will quickly find matches.  But, I don't disagree it's painful especially searching for batman or x-men (outside of "x-men, the").

3 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I too thought about getting some McFarlane sigs...

Yeah, he has a great looking sig and takes the time to sign them nicely.  I'm yet to see a rush job from him.

I was pretty happy with the books coming back, although I did only send in good copies (especially the Spawn's).  I was a little bummed about the ASM 299, but it definitely does have some spine wear, and the corner missing on the front and back.  Regardless I got most of these done to hang out in my house and that copy still shows really well.  I'll probably sell the dupes though, I just wanted good shots at getting a good result. :)

Cable, why not

After writing CGC, I'm not totally convinced they understood what I was describing, suffice it to say this looks like the be norm.  It'll show receiving regardless of whether they have the book or CCS has the book.  The only indication that it's at CCS is that you'll get a CCS invoice when the pressing starts and a CGC invoice (and updated submission date) when CGC is going to start working on it.

The real downside is that it now hides that information and makes their already long process times look worse.  I'm surprised they haven't already fixed this just to keep customers happy seeing some progress, but....

Right now I currently have 7 modern active submissions; 1 was already "Received", 3 were "At CCS" as of 7/6, 8/6, 9/10, so there's a chance they came back to "Received" (although timing on the same day is unlikely).  The other 3 were at " Rec-CCS required" from 8/10, 8/13, 8/23 but are now "Received".  It's highly unlikely that they went to CCS and came back "Received" (waiting for grading) on the same day, a week after they fixed the previous submission tracking bugs.

Any way, either the system no longer gives CCS information (before CGC grading), or they have a new submission tracking bug in the UI. I just thought others might have seen it as well.

I was happy to see the submission tracking was fixed last week and I can see my in progress submissions.  But, between Friday and Today it appears either all of my books finished CCS (some hadn't even arrived there yet) or there's another submission status bug; all of my in-progress books now say "Received" as the status rather than "At CCS" or "Req'd CCS".

Anyone else seeing this?

On 9/4/2018 at 8:31 PM, Nemogollom said:

Next 26 arrived (21 pass 9.8 pre-screen).  18 without any front rings, 2 with tiny ones, 1 with a bunch.  Some of the books had small rings on the backs but not really noticeable.

I also had 5 80's x-men SS books, and an incredible hulk 271 (previously shown here as a misunderstood 9.6, but came back a 9.8 after review) that came back without rings.  Lucky batch this time.  Especially nice because that hulk/rocket book got both a bump and a new case without rings (it came back with rings the first time).

Another two batches.  1 of 11 had medium rings on the front, and 1 other had a small set of rear rings.  Then second batch actually went 18/18, although it was supposed to be 19/19 and they returned one of my 9.8 graded books... so, I need to follow up on how to get that slabbed now.

The bulk of these are modern (~1992-1994) $50+ books that were stored for 25 years.  I was going to dump them on eBay or mycomicshop.  Does anyone sell on here to avoid fees, or should I just park them on consignment or something?

On 8/30/2018 at 7:37 PM, Nemogollom said:

First 25 arrived (21 pass 9.8 pre-screen).  20 books without any rings, and one spawn book with a few.  All of the SS stuff I've gotten back has been covered in rings, it was crazy that the first 20 books I looked at had none (never seen a case with absolutely none), but then the 21st one brought me back.  Many more books coming in next week.

Next 26 arrived (21 pass 9.8 pre-screen).  18 without any front rings, 2 with tiny ones, 1 with a bunch.  Some of the books had small rings on the backs but not really noticeable.

I also had 5 80's x-men SS books, and an incredible hulk 271 (previously shown here as a misunderstood 9.6, but came back a 9.8 after review) that came back without rings.  Lucky batch this time.  Especially nice because that hulk/rocket book got both a bump and a new case without rings (it came back with rings the first time).

On 8/28/2018 at 10:31 AM, Dr. Love said:

A sample size such as yours, 100 books, is very significant and would give much needed info, in a way that small lots of 2-5 books won't reveal as much.  Thanks for being willing to come back and report!

First 25 arrived (21 pass 9.8 pre-screen).  20 books without any rings, and one spawn book with a few.  All of the SS stuff I've gotten back has been covered in rings, it was crazy that the first 20 books I looked at had none (never seen a case with absolutely none), but then the 21st one brought me back.  Many more books coming in next week.

7 minutes ago, cupny said:

You can see the rings

Nice books!

For the rings, I can definitely say it looks like you can see them on both books in the same middle spot without enlarging.  The rings really bother me too. I posted a Rai #0 on here a little while ago, and the entire front is covered in them.  It sucks as most of my books I was having graded to slide into frames to be displayed.