Triskelion

Small box = big problem Received a note from CGC's Eric Dowtown last October 20, letting me know that my last submission received some damage during the course of being shipped to CGC. Turns out my packing had been too tight, with the box and support boards being too small/ too close to the size of the bagged/boarded books I'd sent (which hadnt been issues with my previous 2 submissions). Mental note: will place them in a large, fully padded plastic tupperware container next time. Heeheehee. Terrible news (and what a way to start my day), though hard lesson learned for me, and frankly I'm glad CGC took the effort to apprise me of the issue, and gave me the choice of getting the books shipped back ungraded which I'd opted not to take. Excellent customer service, kudos to CGC. Now, if only they can bring down their grading prices a bit...or speed up the whole grading process somehow...or...BOTH!!!

Worth the wait? Hmmmm. First time to actually send a batch of unslabbed comics to CGC for grading. Sent a batch of 7 books early September, followed by 2 30-item batches mid October. Now nearing end of November, still haven't gotten back my initial submission (which just moved to "Scheduled for Grading" a few days ago, while the other two are still in "Received/Verified" mode). Ugggh! Didn't realize it would take this long, though I've heard CGC's usually swamped at around this time. Nevertheless, I hope they manage to fix this soon, else risk alienating collectors in the future and possibly overtaken by PGX if the latter manages to get its act together and set up its own registry.