Stefan_W

Best of luck!

My back. Keeping things family friendly by only showing the top half.

This ad brings me joy every time I see it. The seller has posted and re-posted it for months now and is probably wondering why no one is snapping up his hot NM key comic.

I sometimes send raw books in to Comic Link so they can send them to CGC and put them up for auction as soon as they come back. This saves the cost of shipping to and from CGC from Canada. For perspective, if I use FedEx I pay about $80 (counting their hideous fees to handle customs) for a submission to get books to CGC, and over $150 to get the books back. That adds about $10 per slab to my costs. Of course I am still dealing with two companies instead of one, but my point is that that putting everything under one roof could be a pretty popular idea with some sellers. Send in books and get paid, in its essence, sounds better than send in books, pay for the shipping and grading, and slog out selling to try to make back more than you put in. I'm not saying it is a good idea for one business to have that much control over the market. It isn't. I am just pointing out that if it did play out this way I can see a lot of people using it.

Sampling from a Horror Magazine collection I just bought. Not the best grades, but some super cool stuff in this group.

My MODERN submission arrived on Apr 1, and although it has showed as received the past couple of days it has not yet entered into SFG. I guess MegaCon was especially mega this year. That spike in submissions is great news for CGC, but for us it means a bit of extra waiting. Thankfully it is still nothing like the wait times back in 2021-22.

Definitely. My next submission will be a pre-screen and I am holding off working on those books until later in the summer.

Did you contact CGC before shipping it back? I have found customer service is really helpful, and if you contact them about it in advance and even past the two weeks they can note in the system that the ME was approved.

I had a box with a MODERN submission arrive at CGC on Mon Apr 1st and it has not yet been opened. The ones that were opened just ahead of the WonderCon submissions have already been graded and shipped out. So yeah, I can definitely attest to things being slower right now.

My experience was that the feeding frenzy during 2021 mostly involved key books and potential key books, with the biggest short term gains revolving around movie spec stuff. However, the fact that a lot of people were at home during the pandemic with no chance of taking a trip, or even finding a contractor to do house repairs, meant a lot of people were sitting around on their computer buying up all sorts of other comics as well. The way it worked for me was that my big books sold early and for prices I never thought I would see, but in the midst of all of that I was adapting and selling a lot of other filler books through my Facebook group as well. I had to because I was running out of space and there were no comic shows where I could set up a table and blow out a few boxes. There will always be crappy books that no one will give you money for, but from 2021 onwards I discovered I could actually sell quite a few 4-10 dollar books to people who were puttering around online and looking to fill out runs.

I asked about this one time and the answer I got was that the submission number and slab number stays as the original submission.

Honestly, If I got "poorly pressed" as a grader note I would take it as "duuuuuude, time to find a new pressor." If I was the one that pressed them I would take some time to learn more about pressing before pressing and submitting more.

Just trying to do my part to keep these boards family friendly

Saw a couple of these at the current Comic Link auction. At first I thought the art was ok but something seemed kind of off. When I looked closer I realized that it looks like her left leg was growing out of her howler for some reason. The composition is just really not put together in the right way.

I was curious about this statement since I rarely see anyone say "grading is subjective" on these boards, let alone seeing it "ad nauseam", so I did a quick search to see if my memory was off. Out of millions of posts on these boards that term has been used 460 times, and a lot of those are the lead in for sales posts. A bunch have also been used pejoratively (e.g., people who can't grade say "grading is subjective"). There could be more instances in different forms, such as "we all know there is a subjective side to grading" and other similar wordings, but I feel pretty safe in saying these boards are not some type of echo chamber with people blurting "grading is subjective" every time someone criticizes CGC.

My ME submission of three books was opened and hit SFG today, Apr 8th.

Nice books! If I can make a tiny suggestion - if you take them out of the bags before photographing them the pictures will look even more purdy

Hello, I have cool trade paperback that I was thinking of sending in. There are three already in the census so I know CGC grades them, but I am not clear on whether they go in regular comic submissions or something else - it is pretty thick. Last thing I want to do is send it in an have it came back across the border on its own because it was put into a different submission category. Thank you in advance for your help.

Just ran across this bad boy in a collection of trade paperbacks and hard covers I bought earlier today, and I am seriously considering sending it in for grading. Does anyone know whether thick trade paperbacks like this go under regular comic submissions?

Waiting for the books is no big deal for me, although I do get super curious with results to see how I did. If there was some way of knowing grades early I could wait months for the actually shipment back without being too fussed about it all. The worst part about this submission is I actually thought I made it in under the wire and ahead of MegaCon stuff. It arrived on Mon the 1st and books that were in the system by the 2nd were going through at lightning speed. Most of my submissions lately have been opened the day after arrival so I thought I was golden. Unfortunately, I the MegaCon submission were processed just ahead of mine. C'est la vie.

There must have been a huge mass of submissions from MegaCon. The boxes for my MODERN submission that arrived on Mon Apr 1 and an ME submission that arrived on Tues Apr 2 have not even been opened yet. A part of the delay on the ME is my fault though since I forgot to write ME on the box this time, so it looks like any other submission.

I think there are at least two possible explanations, and the changes you describe may be some mix of the two. The last time I checked a couple of years ago, the search feature on Ebay was kind of wonky. Simply improving the search engine to catch desired results could explain a lot of it. If this is the case, the number of comics listed has been more stable than the search results imply. Another possible explanation is that people are dumping comics now that prices are tumbling. I know I cleaned out my PC and listed a bunch of books for sale that I was originally planning on keeping. You gotta do what you gotta do.

Aw man, my books made it in a day late and are on the wrong side of the convention glut right now. Box hasn't even been opened yet. Great to see those incredible turnaround times for you!

Just to give the benefit of the doubt, the seller did say that he is working on having it removed without penalty. When you run an Ebay auction like this and cancel before it ends I believe you get dinged with the selling fees anyway. If giving the benefit of the doubt is not your thing, it takes 15 mins or less to contact an ebay rep online and explain the issue. Even if Ebay management had to get involved, he could have done so and had the listing removed by now.

I submitted a High Value submission less than two months ago and back then it was just under two weeks from SFG to shipped.