Stefan_W

Thank you, this is very helpful!

Went to QC on 14 April, just marked as shipped 15 April. They made a mistake in the billing and it is almost impossible to get through right now, but hopefully I can get that done soon. I did the order prior to the price changes and I think they may have used the new pricing.

The modern pre-screen just flipped to Grading/QC, 14 Apr 2022.

My modern pre-screen that went into SFG on 29 Jan 2022 just hit G/E/I on 13 Apr 2022. I have been very impressed on the turnaround times for my pre-screens so far. Interestingly, my slow track modern that also went into SFG on 29 Jan, same day as the pre-screen, is still in SFG. This is the second time in a row that my pre-screens were done faster than regular slow track submissions. Worth noting that everything I have sent in so far has been significantly faster than the promised TATs on the web site. Kudos to the graders, they are really motoring right now.

You write it on the box, like I did

Do you (or anyone) know whether Fast Track books are opened sooner than ones in the slow track? CGC does not promise a quicker opening for these books (unlike higher tiers like walk through), but it seems to make sense to move them a bit higher in the triage since people are paying extra for faster service.

Just picked up a long box of comics yesterday that included these ones. Nothing too fancy but some solid books in there to send in for pre-screen grading.

This question was not directed at me, but I had three batches of books come back from CGC in the past couple of weeks and I feel the grading was very fair. A couple of disappointments and a few pleasant surprises mixed in with a large majority of books landing where I thought they would land.

It really depends on the show and the clientele. In my area wall books don't sell at all, but there is a steady stream of people who thumb through boxes looking to fill out their runs. In larger cities close by the sellers typically sell a lot of big books. I would ask someone who has done the show before to see what sells and then go from there.

If it is a matter of setting the graded books aside for years or even decades the turnaround times shouldn't really matter too much. Long turnarounds impact the most on people who are rolling short term spec books.

For some books things like "2nd highest graded" doesnt matter. If it is a run filler that is a 9.6 and there are no 9.9s or 10s in the census it is in the second highest grade for that book, but the buyers wont really care about that when making their bids. In terms of descriptions they follow what is on the slab itself. So if CGC noted it as a news stand they will put news stand in the description, but if CGC did not note it they will not note it either.

I would like to enter!

As an update, I contact customer support about this book plus another that had really bad newton rings and they were absolutely fantastic and very helpful. Both will be re-holdered.

Thank you for your help, much appreciated!

Hi folks, My second and third shipment from CGC arrived this morning via FedEx and I discovered one of the books on the end was damaged during shipping. This is clearly a shipping issue and not a CGC issue. For those of you who have had issues like this - what have you done? Will CGC re-slab the book? I dont see any damage to the book itself, thankfully, but who knows it may end up dropping down from a 9.8 if the book was scratched.

Out of my last three modern slows I got roughly the grades I was expecting (there are always a couple higher and a couple lower).

Things are definitely flying now. Just has a package of pre-screen slow track moderns that arrived on March 21 enter in to SFG. They are saying they are opening packages from the week of the 7th but it seems they are going faster than that unless I got lucky.

It is a tough market to figure out investment choices since many of the bigger keys are sky high right now. I dont have a crystal ball or anything, but I cant see everything sticking at current market prices. My personal opinion is a lot of the early Batman keys, particularly GA ones, are solid investments right now. Yes, they are jumping in price but they have been undervalued for a long time so it is more of a market correction than anything.

No labels. Apparently it does make a small difference based on what others have said, but I have never used the label option.

And shipped, 28 Mar 2022.

I am always happy to have pleasant and unexpected surprises

Shifted to Quality Control/Finalized a few minutes ago, 28 March 2022. Things are lightening fast at the moment.

I am about to send in a modern FT in a couple of days from now. Based on what people here are saying it is exceptionally fast once it hits SFG, but the slow part right now is it is taking a month or more to even get the boxes open and into the system. Once this backlog clears out though it should be pretty smooth sailing.

Things are absolutely flying now. 25 slow track pre-screen: SFG - 16 Dec 2021 G/E/I - 28 Mar 2022

Modern slow track 25 books SFG 11 Nov 2021 GEI 24 Mach 2022 Grading/Quality Control 25 March Shipped 28 March Really happy with this!