LordRahl

Easy. A lot of these books are prime candidates for CPR. We all know CPR happens a lot. If there were thousands, more would have come to light by now. I mean take IH 181, that book is thousands of dollars for a .2 bump. I bet that is a top 3 CPR book.

I think there could be more. But I don't think it's in the multiple thousands

You are correct in that I doubt CGC will make a statement on that. In my experience, and I've cracked a lot of books, it's somewhat dependent on the individual holder itself. Especially with the 1st gen holders. Some are extremely easy to open and leave no evidence of it (or very little if you are really looking) and others not so much. While I basically just completely destroy the current gen of slab when I break into them, I suspect the same will be true if using the methods described on youtube. Some will show little to no evidence and others will be obvious.

You are probably correct. Which is part of the reason I don't think there are thousands of fraudulent books out there as some on this thread have stated. The more there are, the higher the chance of getting caught.

Well if they are for his PC, he might... you know... keep them for his PC? Just spitballing here

How would CGC know whether or not he sold swapped books if they didn't first go to CGC for reholder?

While not impossible, it would be VERY difficult to prove he never sold swapped books without first going to CGC. Easy enough to prove he did if one or more are found but not the other way around.

I would love to know this as well

He absolutely has more than 1 ASM 300 in 9.8 that he's resubbing with. It's not a hard book to find in 9.8 as long as you have the cash and there is no way he's doing this 1 book at a time.

I can answer this question if you can tell me what "market value" is? How about just use an example. What is market value for XMen 101 in 9.8?

Crime? Where did I say anything about crime?

All my books are now worth tree fiddy. May as well use them as kindling. Is that the right answer?

Speaking of which I just saw today that CGC upcharged a couple of my books from Modern to High Value. Which normally is a good thing but guess what one of those books is? And I can't see the grade yet but I presume it will be a 9.8 given the upcharge

Right! I mean the ASM 300's I get but 194's? Random!

Perfect illustration of what NWO @NewWorldOrder and I have said multiple times in this thread.

I know you're not actually this dense. They named him AFTER they won a court case, which would have then been public record anyway. You are asking them to name the guy NOW, which is looooong before any sort of court case has even started, let alone concluded with a decision in CGC's favor. Totally the same thing, right?

The last contest I participated in was a "guess the grade on this low and/or mid grade Golden Age book" with at least half of the books falling in this category. I commented on it during the contest asking why it was so heavily skewed towards this although there are plenty of other ages and grade ranges that were not well represented. I was naturally told to shut it so I did. As I have no interest in guessing the grade on low/mid GA, I'm choosing not to participate in future contests. I know I will get skewered for this post and debated on whether to even bother posting it but since the recruitment is being brought up in multiple threads, I thought I'd give you my perspective on why participation may be lower than usual.

What about books that didn't go through CGC for a reholder and were just swapped out? I'm not sure it's been proven that this happened and if not, it's entirely possible that only reholdered books were swapped but I wouldn't bet on it.

No, no, not at all. The poster I was responding to was suggesting that the owners of the tainted books not take up CGC on their review and recertify option but rather send the books in as "evidence" for the prosecution. In which case those books would be stuck in limbo while the process of investigating, indicting and prosecuting plays out. That would take likely years with the owners not having either the book or the money for the book while they wait for everything to play out. I'm just saying that no one will sign up for that and it's a terrible suggestion.

Indeed I have not but I did learn something useful today so thank you for that!

So you seem to have some idea of how long this could take, assuming the FBI even decided to prosecute AND your advice to the owners is to just send their books in and wait for what could be years? Wild!!! I assume you would be the first one to send in a $10K+ book and just wait years in limbo while the process plays out

I agree but the problem with this is that our legal system takes time and until this person is being prosecuted, I would expect CGC to stay silent on details that have to do with the prosecution (which would be almost everything at this point). That could take months if not years.

Maybe I'm missing something here but how would CGC or anyone else for that matter know what this list is? I believe you can look up past ebay sales for only a few months. Or is there some way I don't know of to see what an ebay account has sold for years in the past? Other than a law enforcement agency subpoenaing ebay's records that is.

Do you care about some random stranger more than you do about yourself? If you could do something that is detrimental to you but beneficial for said random stranger, would you? I don't know what kind of fairy tale world you all live in but posts like this continue to amaze me. Unrealistic is putting it mildly.