Lightning55

That would be good of them. Can't be too many people approaching them about something that was supposed to be in the slab and wasn't. I had a long, brunette hair in the slab once. I put it in the eBay listing as a disclaimer, with photo.

You are right about trying CGC, see what they say. The speed bump is that he didn't submit the book, bought it. He has no standing on that now. How is CGC to know the book in his hand came out of that slab? Except possibly by "ballistics", if there are grader notes that mention specific flaws that are undoubtedly from that comic. Even then, HE could have taken out the centerfold and claimed it was gone. Hard to get a story that can't easily be challenged.

That's awful. I see no clear recourse, either. Once you crack it, it can't be returned. You're depending on CGC doing its job, and they didn't. But you can't prove it, since the only way to do that would be to open it in front of a CGC rep. They do have some kind of "guarantee", but I haven't read it lately. Probably about the book in the slab being authenticated when slabbed. Just a rock and hard place situation.

Maybe you could just sell the raw runs, and use the cash for a Hulk 1. Finding a trade candidate sounds daunting.

A lot of good ideas, checking everything you can ahead. Insuring it is not relevant to the situation, but I sure would, and I'd also add signature confirmation. Registered Mail is also in play at that price. You also have Seller Protection from both eBay and PayPal if you are shipping to a confirmed address. The payment should say clearly "Seller Protection Eligible" on it. If it doesn't, that's your out, if leery about it. The zero feedback thing is a tough one. As said earlier by others, everyone has to start somewhere. But to cannonball into the deep end at $650, that's a bold move. Maybe too bold. For the future, you can alter your eBay settings under Selling Preferences to allow only bidders over a certain feedback to bid or buy. Other qualifications there, too, such as max strikes, po boxes, etc.

Don't blame yourself, it's eBay. In an effort to keep people engaged with live listings instead of closed listings, they did this reroute thing. It was even worse at first. No indication that you had been rerouted. So you click on a link to a listing, and if it has been sold, they just show you something similar, no message. Then I guess people complained, so they put an almost invisible link on top saying something like "If you want to see the original listing, click here." It was light grey on white, so you could barely see it. If you didn't know it was there, you wouldn't see it. Then finally we have what is there today. A small frame that shows you what you intended to see, and a much larger frame showing you a live listing. Amidst all the stupid things they do to alienate buyers and sellers alike, they think that this method will lead to a sale. That's how backward they are.

When I go to the link, I see at the top the $1475 book, sold by the.boss on 6/7. In the main photo, I see one now offered for sale by krustycook. It's not the same seller, not even the same book (different registration numbers), just 2 books of the same grade. Not sure why it was thought to be a sale that wasn't completed.

I have had some comics graded with improper cutting at the corners, and they came back with better grades than I expected. My recollection is.....If I was figuring 8.5 with the poor cuts, they came back with 9.0 - 9.4. Since there were no notes, I can't really say WHAT the grader thought of the tear. Was it a 9.4 ignoring the cut? Was it a 9.4 PARTLY due to the cut? Was it a 9.4 ENTIRELY due to the cut? No idea. We don't get enough (any) info on the process. My thoughts at the time I submitted it was to be prepared for something like an 8.5, or even lower, and be happy if it came back higher. So I was happy that I got better than expected. In your case, you were probably hoping/expecting perfect copies, and instead now there is a caveat. Hopefully someone with "inside information" can help your sort it out.

It's easy enough to tell if it's sun fade. If the back is fine, it's sun fade. If the back looks like the front, it's the ink running out. Tough to have both sides exposed to the sun at the same time.

I sell on eBay, don't have any particular issues the way it is. There are buyer protections in place, seller protections in place, things usually go as they should. You will always have a random problem on either end, but there are avenues to get that corrected. The only thing that would help me would be lower fees, and that's not likely. EBay isn't what it used to be, as there are many competing markets, but that's just an evolution. You can use Amazon, and pay even more. Everyone is looking for an eBay alternative, but for now, it's the best option for some. There are comic auction sites out there to use, too. As far as eBay setting up something specifically comic-friendly, they would have to do that for every collectible or manufactured item. Probably not on the horizon.

Looks to me like a manufacturing error. Likely the red ink ran out during printing, as there are some traces on the edges, but for the most part has no red. The red would have combined with the yellow that is predominant to form a lot of orange, which is definitely lacking.

You had pressing done, so the submission gets a new received date when it moves from CCS to CGC. That date is now the date CGC received it, not when it first arrived in FL.

Since it looks like he missed with that right, can't the other guy just shoot him? Main character dies, very short series.

If you don't change over to MP, they will shut your selling account down. I haven't heard how fast that happens, but I don't think they will take a long time to throw that switch. Probably haven't heard because no one wanted to take the chance and go past their deadline (those who were forced on earlier). They won't stop you from buying stuff, just selling stuff.

Yeah, so that is quite interesting that we have an image of Richard Chamberlain (just my opinion), portrayed as a young man on the cover, but it can't really be him if he was only 14-15 years old, probably no where near the same part of the country. That's why I say the artist must have been "channeling" from the future (that's a pun, channeling the channel) maybe CBS or NBC, wherever Dr. Kildare was shown. His face showed up before he did.

It's too bad things progressed the way they did. The OP was expecting people to beat him up for his over-grading, so did not want to present any info beyond grader notes on a book we can't see. I realize he can't show the photos because the book hasn't even been received back yet, and he probably wouldn't have known to take photos before shipping. But I think he would have gotten an equal amount of empathy and criticism. There are a lot of us who sent stuff in with high expectations, only to be mortally wounded. And the graders can be off now and then, a bit. But he was so defensive, and then offensive, that nothing good came of it. I send large bunches of books in, so my hopes are not riding on a single comic only. I don't photograph them ahead, as most are not crazy-expensive to begin with, but I do keep a log of what grade I THINK they should get. The results usually get divided into 3 roughly equal segments: a third a bit lower, a third a bit higher, a third dead on. That's probably the best I am going to get. So far, the worst has been a projected 9.2 that came back 8.0, and I think that was due to some areas of light foxing that I didn't give enough weight to. The best was a projected 7.5 that came back 9.6. What I was taking points off for probably turned out to be considered a manufacturing defect, so not counted so much. You have to take the bad with the good.

Nothing you could use on eBay listings, past or present, or from mycomicshop?

In that cover to #9, Broncho Bill looks like exactly like Richard Chamberlain aka Dr. Kildare. It was published in '48/'49 area, and Richard Chamberlain was born in 1934. Could there be an early image of the future Dr. Kildare, before he was even an adult?? Twilight Zone stuff. Spellcheck DOES NOT like broncho.

That's a tough question, a lot of variables and speculation. Like if Nolan Ryan had blown out his arm, could he then possibly be a great right fielder? The Spider-Man first appearances you mention may be worth more just because they are Spider-Man issues. More people collect Spider-Man, so more pressure on any of the issues. Add something important to that, and there you go, off and running. Certainly if Thanos had appeared first in a Spider-Man comic, that Spider-Man issue would take a huge leap. But it already would have had a head start just being part of the Spider-Man line. The question becomes: would the increase in value from the base value be more if the character appeared in a higher popularity comic? I would think so, for the same reason as above, more people to like it. And of course it depends on the character - are they likeable, how interesting are they, how are they portrayed, do they get their own title, etc.

It's been a while since I have seen someone do a drive-by posting like this and make a complete @ss of themselves. Like the hundred years between Covid outbreaks, there is some relief in the middle.

Where's @Buzzetta? We need a shut down.

This is the only thing you have said that makes any sense at all. I don't know why you even bothered to come here.

It got quiet because a whole 3 minutes had passed between the time you posted the grader notes and "Cricket Cricket". Do you think people are hanging on your every word? You obviously just came here to rant, and we've all seen that before. You're not looking to find out why things went bad, I guess. The graders notes mean nothing without some context, as noted earlier, roughly where you are on the grading range, what the grade actually was, what comic was graded, what you expected, and no photo. Maybe you feel better getting it off your chest, so that's something.

It's hard to even contribute anything when the sample size is 1 comic with no specifics. Was it a hoped-for 9.8 modern comic that came back 9.4? Or a Golden Age comic that went from 5.0 to 3.0? Judging any process or company on a single experience is a bit premature, but it does happen. If you went to a restaurant and had a bad experience, you might not ever go back. But then there are oodles of restaurants, not many grading companies.

Sounds correct, as things stand now. It will take longer. A suggestion would be to have a checking account on Managed Payments that is at the same bank you have a credit card. Money moves from the eBay sales to your checking account (1-3 days), transfer it to your credit card (1 day), buy comics with PayPal using that credit card as the funding source. To move money from the checking account to your PayPal account can take up to 5 business days on top of the 1-3 days to get to your checking account. If it's a credit card that you get some cash back or other bonus, that is a side benefit. Another benefit is that your purchase is protected by the credit card company, not just PayPal.