Lightning55

Putting him on your Blocked Bidder List only prevents him from buying from you. We need a Blocked Seller List that prevents us from seeing listings from sellers we don't want to accidentally interact with again. As for the feedback, considering the lack of cooperation you experienced, you can add a response on your feedback received. Maybe describing what happened, and which seller to avoid. And of course you could leave negative feedback on the seller's feedback, and let him work as hard as you did to try to get it removed. You could also just let it go, or anything in between.

CGC Grading Scale 10.0 ---- A little better than 9.9 9.9 ---- A little better than 9.8 9.8 ---- A little better than 9.6 Etc. Work your way down.

I see this is from Heritage. Looks similar to Overstreet, excellent detail. Here is what 9.9 looks like to CGC: CGC Grading Scales CGC uses a highly accurate, industry standard 10-point grading scale to evaluate collectibles. Mint. 9.9 The collectible is nearly indistinguishable from a 10.0 but will have a very minor manufacturing defect. It will not have any evidence of handling defects. What a joke. "Highly accurate"

Never mind. I see that it is there already. It didn't show as an underlined link in my email.

What source is this definition from, please? Just comparing notes. Do you have a page link for the complete grade list?

Maybe they did take it into consideration, you'll never know. Could have been they thought it was a 9.0 and dropped it a step. Or a vendor "code", and didn't knock it. What you have is much better than getting a 9.8 on a book with an obviously bent corner, missing corner, or other defect that shouldn't be on a 9.8. I've had that happen. Makes it hard to sell as a 9.8, hard to sell as anything else, because the grade is definitely wrong.

+1 with above.

I wouldn't cut it. Maybe send it in for Restoration removal assessment, see what they recommend, try to gauge the impact of that, and go from there. I think its value as a Restored 6.5 will be in the ballpark of a lower grade blue label. Presents very nicely as is. But if you hate the label, and you can get your money back on the comic (presuming you haven't owned it for decades), maybe best to do that.

I didn't know that you wind a compass...at all.

Did these books actually go missing, or were lesser copies substituted? I could see a scenario where the employee sees a key comic receiving a high grade, like a 9.8. He has a 9.2 copy at home, raw or slabbed, purchased ahead, waiting for the 9.8 match. Smuggles his in, makes the swap before encapsulation, smuggles the 9.8 out. If this could be done, there is no red flag along the way, no triggering of suspicion, no accounting deficiency, no lost book. Only a camera, another employee, a security person, or a manager could catch it. If the submitter claims the book he got back is not the one he submitted, CGC could say it must have been damaged on the way in, not their responsibility.

You can't swap in a raw book, unless you access or ability to duplicate the inner well. Which has yet to be shown to be in practice. And if you had that capability, along with being able to discretely open and reseal a slab, you wouldn't be wasting your efforts or resources on $100 slabs. As @Dr. Balls said, no one swaps out cheap books. You'd move backwards financially, like spending 35 cents each to counterfeit quarters. If a comic is under $300, no one has messed with it.

Cheating on taxes is stealing, and not uncommon, unfortunately. You said: On 2/1/2024 at 6:57 PM, Math Teacher said: "Unfortunately, Mr. Terrazas will not have to pay taxes on his ill-gotten gains, as the government has kicked the "anything above $600 is taxable" can down the road." The $600 threshold, or the currently higher threshold that varies by state, has nothing to do with whether anyone has to pay taxes or not. Every dollar of net income is taxable. People can choose whether or not to follow the law. Some people choose to rob banks, but they risk getting caught. Some people, like yourself, confuse the reporting threshold as being an allowance of money you can earn before paying taxes on it. It's not.

Every dollar of net income is taxable. The $600 threshold pertains only to 1099 reporting requirements.

Looks like a printing/cutting/manufacturing defect to me. My opinion doesn't count for much, unfortunately.

It's a plastic case, stuff happens. Its purpose is to protect the comic, which it is doing. Sending them back may not help. They can come back with even more visible problems. I think you should quit while you're ahead.

You didn't notice it before it was pressed, and now you do?

Oh, I get it. I interpreted as "You could do it here, but you can't do it here." I didn't see that the 2 "it"s meant different things.

Could you clarify what you mean by book listings only? The Forum bread trail says "Comics> Comics Market - Forum Only Selling Area> Mixed Age Threads and Misc". Seems like a place to sell comics, books, tpb's, etc. Maybe I'm missing something.

"CGC will retain your book as evidence"??? What if you don't want them to keep your property If you are the owner, you should decide who gets to keep your property. If those are the terms under which you are submitting for a Holder Review, and you agree with the terms, then I guess that's the way it is. Might be a tough decision for some. But I don't know if you have much choice. You do need to know what is in the case.

Vintage is showing 30 days, 20 Fast Track.

Oh, I see. I thought you meant the replaced corner matched the existing ad on #4. I guess the goal is to buy a 2.5, judging by the dip between 2.0 and 3.0 on GPA. Although it is a single sale causing that.

I'm not seeing that the ad on the back of the price block matches. The price block ad is for encyclopedias (?), and the comic ad is for body building. Unless you mean the color of the ad and the page are relatively the same.

Those will work just fine. The only disadvantages are that they don't have handles or lids. The lids are kind of important for stacking purposes as your collection grows, a real space saver.

Not bothering me a bit, and I am sure I am in the 90+% of people who will have zero impact from this scandal. If you deal in high value books, especially those particular issues that are scam favorites, different story. I've been subbing right along, hope to increase. My biggest loss, since being involved with CGC for many years, is the many hours lost reading this 370+ page thread, and following all the links to see "evidence". Kinda interesting, but exhausting.

What is that emoji, anyway?