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On 8/25/2021 at 6:28 PM, divad said:

Which is a lot easier than getting a nice copy of this book. 

Tough to find? I had bought one but the seller sent the wrong book and it had a big ding on the cover that somehow got through grading. I don't buy many books, so it's kind of frustrating looking around

I mean it's gone up a bit since then, but I'm not looking in the super high grade. Thanks for the feedback

Looking for an opinion. I'm wanting to pick up an asm 252. I tried once before and got a bum deal(had to return it) and never got around to picking up again. I see the price has gone up a couple of hundred since then. Should I get one now or give it some time? I figure when the black suit gets mentioned/introduced in the MCU, it's gonna go up even more and don't want to have to pay a fortune

On 3/18/2020 at 12:44 PM, Real Elijah Snow said:

That's still slabbed, correct?

Yeah, it was slabbed. Looked great other than that book imperfection

On 3/18/2020 at 2:25 PM, Krismusic said:

can u show a picture of the entire slab.. as in maybe someone opened it slightly to switch out books or to switch out labels..  this is why I was asking about cracks and the label.. to see if any tampering has been done. 

Oh,  already sent back to the seller. It wasn't tampered with from what I saw. It looks worse in the pic because up close, but still it was pretty noticeable enough to warrant a lesser grade IMO

9 hours ago, Krismusic said:

was the case cracked or opened? and also what does the label say? 

Nah, it looked brand new. Label? I mean it's just a normal blue label. Graded in feb of this year

15 hours ago, William-James88 said:

That clears it. No need to overthink now, just return it.

Got a return for it, so I guess it can be someone else's problem. Still, that shouldn't be a 9.6 at all

3 minutes ago, Foley said:

eBay? Sounds like you need to return it for sure.

 

Yeah, I looked up their other auctions and both had the same serial. I'm requesting the refund. It's a fairly new seller, so maybe honest mistake

Yeah, it's pretty solid other than that, but damn is that a huge flaw. Thing that sucks is It was impossible to see in photos. This hobby is downright aggravating. I get screwed on poorly graded raw books, and then just as screwed on "professionally" graded...

Edit:...Well holy mess. Now I know why. The one they sent doesn't match the serial on the photo

I picked up an ASM 252 and it was perfect except for this really gnarly gouge on the cover. It almost looks touched up with how it looks lifted and pressed back down. Of course there were no grader notes. Thoughts?

Yeah, I used scissors, but it was like this before I cut it out. Also, there's no way I could cut a clean square shape out like that with scissors. This was an older style(not old label) that you can pop apart by just pulling the center seam on the side

Edit: Here's a better pic. See how there's like straight cut, small squared off, straight cut, squared off

Edit2: Now that I look at the back compared to my reader copy, it looks like the result of a poor cut from the factory. My reader is cut off more than this one(cgc left, reader right)

5 hours ago, Ride the Tiger said:

A certain other grading company would have had that at 9.8

Maybe it was tampered with is all I can think of. No 9.6 has a rounded corner like that.

Oh, I wasn't even talking about the corner. I was meaning that big square slice cut out of the back cover in the pic(no, it wasn't my scissors skills lol). Definitely wasn't tampered with, as the case and inner mylar thing were sealed. Just thought it was a crazy grade for the condition

I cracked open this guy and was disturbed by how terrible it looked. In addition to this mangled corner, the back was off center, had dents in the spine, and a noticeable stacking curl. Is stuff like that normal for a 9.6 or am I overreacting?

13 minutes ago, the blob said:

Find it at a yardsale. That's how I got my last copy.

I've never been to one before. I might have to try one

18 minutes ago, revat said:

why do you want one now vs say....3 years ago?  I'd wait til 6-10 months after the movie.  But this is a comic unlike any other.  It was steadily going up even without the movie.

Well, because I wasn't collecting anything years ago

Should I try to jump on an ASM 300 now or do y'all think it will cool down after the movie? It's getting out of my reach now