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problem is it probably tastes exactly like a 20 dollar bottle of wine Ehhhh...you'd be wrong about that. There really is a difference... Now, if we were talking a 2002 Opus One ( ) with, say, a 1982 Chateau Lafite...the former being $150, the latter being about $2000...then I'd say you'd be closer, although experience would probably out the Lafite.... But a $20 bottle of, say, Clos du Bois Cab? Oh yeah. You can tell the difference.

Danny seriously, you have no idea what you are talking about. I'm not trying to wannabe anybody. I'm also not here just to make friends, and if I have to lie to myself or try to act like somebody to make friends, well I don't want them as friends. I will vehemently defend to the death what I believe to be true. I said this to you before personally Roy...to what end and for what purpose? You've said yourself that you don't have a stake in this horse and I'm pretty sure the buyer didn't hire you to be his Spokesman, so why continue on? If 99% of the boards feels it wasn't the smartest purchase in the world, it probably wasn't, so why continue fighting? Jim Because it's an important discussion worth hashing out, regardless of where one stands. The particular details of this sale serve merely as the springboard for a much more important discussion. We could be discussing the Spidey #5, it's the same topic. That's why. He feels it's important; who is anyone else to try and peer pressure him into silence?

Which is the utter stupidity of it all. Name one other product where the wrapping is more important than the goods? That's nonsense - the buyer is paying for both an appraisal of the condition of a physical comic book from a company that's considered the standard within our industry & the physical comic book itself; he's not paying $12k for just an empty plastic shell with "9.9" written in the top-left corner. He might as well, because the book inside...outside of the $200 or so that a typical 9.8 is worth....is meaningless. Bad analogy. 9.4s don't sell for a whopping 61 times 9.2s. Perspective.

Which is the utter stupidity of it all. Name one other product where the wrapping is more important than the goods?

I'm going to feel dirty in the morning, but... Oh, but it's SUCH a delicious kind of dirty.....

Isn't that what JC predicts pretty much every year? Maybe we're seeing it now with the soft market? I'm not sure who JC is though, maybe I'm familiar with him...and don't realize it. Jesus Christ Amen.

Catch ya later!

There have been some really sweet, sweet burns in this thread.... Calling me a fatass is not a burn, Tupenny, Jr. Is that 'cause it's true, or because it's just weaksauce? It's like calling me a pompous windbag... Well, DUH. But see, you are smart enough to understand the subtle difference between referring to a "Pompous Windbag" Pedigree and actually saying "RMA is a pompous windbag." Delivery. A joke must be wielded, not like a club, but as delicate spun glass, for it to achieve its true destiny. Let us pray....

Nobody has ridiculed the buyer with personal insults. On the contrary, people have gone out of their way to state that, if it makes the buyer happy, that's really all that matters. There is, however, EXTREME value in discussing these issues, of which this latest sale is only one tiny brick in the wall... Didn't say that. Nor portray it. What it IS, however, is SUBJECTIVE...and the same grader, with the same book, on a totally different day could grade a book a 9.8....or a 9.9. Even you. Even me. No dartboard. Just natural subjectivity when you're dealing with the impact of "1/64th inch indentations" on the final grade. I need only point to the Amazing Spiderman #5 to prove that. And I thought you were done with this discussion...?

Boozad will be taking a 15 minute break. Wishful thinking. 30 seconds was more like it. Wow. I don't know as I've EVER cranked one out in 30 seconds... Try adding a fist. Sounds painful. Can I choose the fist...?

There have been some really sweet, sweet burns in this thread.... Calling me a fatass is not a burn, Tupenny, Jr. Is that 'cause it's true, or because it's just weaksauce? It's like calling me a pompous windbag... Well, DUH.

Boozad will be taking a 15 minute break. Wishful thinking. 30 seconds was more like it. Wow. I don't know as I've EVER cranked one out in 30 seconds... ...well, there was that one time, in college.....

There have been some really sweet, sweet burns in this thread....

Ultimate Ninja Fatass....? Why would you want that on your labels...? ...oh, wait, Badass... Nevermind.

Sharon does the hugs. I do the insults. Want one of those? Sure! Do you know any funny ones...?

There. Now don't make me do that again. It hurts me more than it hurts you. Now how's about a hug?

I would love to score some sweet "Pompous Windbag" copies when they hit the market! Can we somehow make that happen sooner rather than later? Evil. You people are pure evil. Pompous Windbag...mutter, grumble...I'll show YOU pompous windbag! Just for that, I'm not going to post ANYTHING for FIVE...MINUTES. See how much you miss me THEN, huh...? Yeah, that's right....

There is a lot of wisdom in Kung Fu Panda Well, sure, I would expect that in a cliché-ridden, yet delightful cartoon romp by Dreamworks.... But sans the animated turtle, it loses some of its....flavor.... I am even more wise and charming than an animated kung fu expert tortoise. Yes...but can you do....the Wuxi Finger Hold...??

I'm hoping for a pedigree designation when I die. Well, at least for the short period from 1989-1993 that I was actually buying books new... My New Mutants #98s would qualify!

There is a lot of wisdom in Kung Fu Panda Well, sure, I would expect that in a cliché-ridden, yet delightful cartoon romp by Dreamworks.... But sans the animated turtle, it loses some of its....flavor....

That was....well, that was just awful. My dog groaned when I read that....

You think of me ramming you....? Oh my.

Sure. Stop. (thumbs u (RAM...? )

Weren't you the guy that said you picked 3 10.0 raw books for submission and had them graded at 10.0 or did i misunderstand you? Didn't I "guess" and send in a comic that I thought had a shot at 9.9 and it came back CGC 9.9 while all the rest I had pegged at 9.8 and they graded CGC 9.8? Didn't we just discuss this on the copper forum a few weeks ago? How is that arbitrary? Heh...it's like I read your mind... De-slab the 9.9. De-slab, oh, 10 very strong looking 9.8s. Put them together. Don't identify which is which. Then have someone pick out the single 9.9. Possible? Sure. Likely? Oh, I don't think so.... In my example, I picked out the strongest books from a stack in my hand. But any one of them could easily have come back a 9.9 (and one of them probably should have.) And I said that at the time, too, because it's always true. But if I had 11 copies slabbed, and 4 of them came back 9.8, 4 of them came back 9.9, and three of them came back 10...then I de-slabbed them, and you had me pick which ones came back which grades with absolute certainty, I couldn't do it. No one can. And that's the major difference: picking out not-yet-graded books from a stack and arriving at a fairly good idea of their final CGC grade is NOT the same as picking out the one book from a stack of books that have already been graded and determining, with 100% accuracy, which was which....and, if they were re-subbed, I doubt they'd come back the same, either. But...that DOES give me an interesting idea for an experiment.... Maybe a panel at SD.....

Oh, thank God, somebody gets it. Sigh. Everybody gets it. We all get it. Speak for yourself, Chewbacca. "We" can speak for themselves. I'm quite certain many, many people don't get it, and think this is about "telling people how to spend your billions of dollars." I know that because they keep saying it. (thumbs u Except, of course, no on can.