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I'm still waiting for all of the "prominent members" of the collecting community who requested this to reveal themselves

I'm aware. It was dumb then and it's dumb now. If you're stifling the speech and opinions of others to protect someone giving you money, it doesn't matter your reasoning. You're the bad guy. Always.

Whatever helps you sleep better at night, big guy

A rule based on nothing but the insecurities of the owners. Can you imagine if Facebook banned everyone that mentioned Twitter? It's a small, pathetic way to run a business.

Well, you're wrong. But keep protecting the fragile feelings of your overlords. All heil Blackstone!

Take You just made my day Jimbo. Ive been trying to upgrade my .5 copy of this for a LONG time

Gotta disagree with you here. I think they look great in the slabs and I love the fact that the labels have various bits of info like the publisher and year, artists, etc That being said, CGC is still on my poop list for now

They switched the notes somewhere in the process with another book I think, because the book is 5x signed and all of that info was accurate on the label

I haven't been on the modern game for a while, but this inconsistency with them isn't anything new. Six or seven years ago I sent in an ASM 300 which I thought was a 9.0 but it came back a 6.0 with all kinds of flaws listed that were clearly not on the book. Sent it back to be regraded, no pressing....came back an 8.5

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This would require me to first figure out what a Whatnot is. Pass

CGC:

I'm a huge fan of the books, but just could not get into the show. So much of the casting was just....off. Don't like Morpheus's design or casting. They leaned too heavy into the emo look. He looks like he just needs a guitar, a studded belt, and some teary mascara streaks. Lucifer was also pretty bad. I don't get the appeal of Gwendolyn Christie for this role. If you're going with a woman, I don't think she was the right choice. She's not androgynous at all. Someone like Tilda Swinton would have been a MUCH better choice. Lucienne bothers me too. The character was originally a crotchety, creepy old guy. Now they made the character a pretty, polite younger lady. But hey, according to Gaiman I'm just a racist or dummy that doesn't get it. The show so just doesn't flow well either. And on top of all that, the production seems....I dunno....cheap or poorly done? And what's up with the aspect ratio? Everything is stretched out too tall?

I forget where it was mentioned, but CGC receives 30,000-40,000 new submissions every WEEK. Their money train is absolutely 90% new modern subs

He's definitely trying to lay low, he just cancelled his appearance at Boston with Black Flag

There's no "risk" for bidding on ebay and not paying, unfortunately. They will just get an "unpaid item" strike against their account with zero recourse. And you can have as many ebay accounts as you want as long as you have spare email addresses. Though I personally have no problem with trolls over bidding these auctions

The out of control auction prices is likely a coordinated effort to way overbid the price on the books and keep people from buying them while sticking it to the seller. Not like I would ever do something like that.......

This is the only thing that leads me to believe we might actually see some kind of retraction from CGC. They're a large company, but they ain't sh*t compared to Ebay. If they screw around too much and get on Ebay's bad side with actively approving and grading counterfeit/bootleg books, there will be consequences for CGC (hopefully).

You guys did something SO colossally stupid that the entire collecting community is in an uproar, you personally basically told us all to bend over and take it, and your competitors are openly blasting your decision.....and you expect us not to mention it? Get real.

CGC: "So we discussed it and...."

This. As long as CGC has an endless stream of modern variants giving them 30,000-40,000 books to grade per week they don't have to care about the actual community at all.

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They were already making millions of dollars just by owning CGC, it's been an extremely profitable company for a long time now or the wouldn't have got the offer that they got. They also could have very easily sold just enough to retain a controlling share so they could still make sure the company retained it's original goal of providing a valuable service to the community while still pocketing a sizeable chunk of change. I'm sure a lot of people would have done the same, and yes, those people would also be sellouts. I, personally, am from the camp where some things mean more to me than money, especially when the buyer is a large corporation (and double especially when you're already millionaires like the previous owners). Prime example, I live in a small mountain community where we've all made somewhat of a pact with each other and local realtors to take lesser offers from individual/family buyers if we decide to sell our homes because the surrounding communities are being bought up and ruined by large holding corporations like Blackrock and BlackStone who roll in throwing wads of cash around. If you sell something to either of those companies, you are just greedy and soulless

Not anything like what we're seeing as of late. The problem has only been exacerbated