This video goes through the lawsuit

Swagglehaus made a video :

On 1/8/2024 at 4:25 PM, comicjel said:

I'm sure whatever graded books they had in their possession are being consigned ASAP - of course some are likely the real 9.8s. 

Some folks knowingly will try to get rid of these tampered 9.8's and pass on the problem to someone else... That's just wrong.

On 1/8/2024 at 3:46 PM, sledgehammer said:

Nice catch.

That's a lot of private listings in his seller feedback.

Been around since 1999.

What is a private listing on eBay and can it be used to hide shady stuff going on ?

Excuse my ignorance haha

On 1/7/2024 at 10:57 PM, grendel013 said:

 

Is he here too?

Who is this ?

Have any books on the list been sold on Comic Link ?

On 1/1/2024 at 5:05 PM, namisgr said:

This was informative, thanks for posting it.  While he shows a relatively easy heat-based method for opening the top and removing the label, he also admits that upon careful inspection one sees damage to the plastic along the top near and at the two posts.

The question is can it be done wirhout any visible danage

On 1/1/2024 at 2:27 AM, Steven Valdez said:

Yeah, there's a guy who lists about 10 x #181 per month. As well as other Bronze to Modern keys, including ASM #238, usually with either the MJ insert OR Tatooz.

I see he's also been selling lots of page 10s from Hulk #181, without even the MVS on them. He still gets OK money on them anyway. I guess this is why there are so many qualified #181's out there with the entire page 10 missing, instead of just the MVS being gone.

Anything shady possiblity going on here ?

There are a few eBay sellers that always have Hulk 181s, ASM 300s and other big keys for sale like on an almost weekly basis. I wonder what they are really doing. 

On 12/31/2023 at 9:54 PM, CJ Design said:

I'm with you...his grading breakdowns taught me ton's. Plus I loved his rants.

Eta Nick sure knew when to sell at the peak and bail out

For your viewing pleasure. Happy New Year guys and gals !!! 

On 12/30/2023 at 8:16 PM, CGC Mike said:

The e-mail has been sent.

Much appreciated @CGC Mike

On 12/30/2023 at 1:32 PM, Iconic1s said:

Whoa!!  Man, if there is a connection to a major submitter that’s just crazy!  This might explain some of the weird grade dates, etc. and what looks like potential hookups.

If true, this would probably be the best outcome… gives CGC someone to focus on, and also potentially contains the damage to this one guy (with his accomplices) running the scam.

This was already interesting but this kicks up the intrigue a couple notches… until now I imagined the loser toiling away in his basement/garage alone breaking into slabs… now if it’s an actual known big-time submitter pumping books back through CGC and then using people close to him to sell the books then that’s bonkers!

This guy is the lowest of the lows if true (even lower than we already thought)!!  He scams a company that trusted him (a normal submitter wouldn’t have been given the leeway a big one was, maybe) and then pulled people close to him in his life into his greed and turned them into criminals too!  Not to mention betraying every single person that bought a scammed book, and casting doubt over an entire hobby!  Crazy stuff if true!!

 

The scammer probably reads this thread if he has good internet connection in the cave he is hiding in....

On 12/30/2023 at 1:38 AM, William-James88 said:

In terms of guarantee, it feels more like a warranty. Like bad stuff happened on my orders but I was made whole monetarily. Never at a loss of money (but definitely at a loss of books or whatnot). So I get their guaranty in that sense. And we are seeing it play out with this current scandal too. People will be monetarily compensated.

What I find completely asinine about the guarantee is that it's wrapped around a catch 22 they created. Only the book within their slab has the guarantee, it represents their service. So their guarantee that the book you purchased isn't missing a page or doesn't have restoration is only good as long as the book remains in the slab. While I get it, it's also the easiest out. The page is missing, but you only knew that because you removed the book from the slab. If it was kept in its holder, it's value as a complete book wouldn't have dropped. That's obviously an issue beyond CGC and more about slabbing books, but it's just to show that some aspects of the guarantee don't mean much. 

(and yes, with the fact that they take pictures now of the graded books, you can further use that to prove that the book you removed from the slab is the same book and in the case of that Archie, you could check if the removal of the pinup was recent or not, which is why CGC still made the individual whole even though they removed it from the slab).

This scandal also puts light on the notion of Guarantee which really is not much of a guarantee at all. 

On 12/29/2023 at 3:47 PM, brute_nm said:

We did it!! 

Now 250 by monday hahaha

On 12/29/2023 at 4:18 PM, LordRahl said:

Just stumbled upon this... sooo... Ewert scandal v2.0 huh? Show of hands, how many of you know what I'm talking about? I'm going to guess less than 25% of you. This too will go the same route. 

On a related note. Kew Gardens and Arizona connected sellers? Comic scam. Anyone else smell Danny Dupecake here?

Biggest Comic Scandal EVER!!

200 pages before saturday !!! 

@CGC Mike Is CGC sending an email statement to all members or is it only being posted on this forum, Instagram, Facebook and the CGC website ? Thank you

Wow I just saw the @immaculatecomics  video... not good news indeed

On 12/26/2023 at 3:14 PM, Yorick said:

I am having a problem with the IH 181 9.0.  It's really a Q 8.5 that CGC was fooled NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE.  The same book.  If you had slipped that past them the first time, you must have some knowledge (and BIG balz) that it'll get through AGAIN for the custom label.

Great job @comicwiz 

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

On 12/25/2023 at 2:27 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Any new discoveries today?

I think folks are taking a Christmas break

On 12/25/2023 at 1:45 PM, Lightning55 said:

Thank you for the summation. I recognized the name in the thread title as someone I had sold a dozen Marvel Masterworks to. To see his name associated with some type of shady topic piqued my curiosity. 

So shrinkage is real ? (George Costanza)

On 12/25/2023 at 12:38 PM, AbsoluteCarnage said:

Idk  could just be a crappy looking 9.8 but with all this MJ stuff going on that bottom back corner set me off looking at the book. 

I bet alot of collectors have no idea this swap thing is going on....

On 12/25/2023 at 12:23 PM, mephistopheles said:

Yes CGC's laziness on grader's notes is a real annoyance. And when they do include them they are often just copy/pasted across multiple books and inaccurate. If nothing else this fiasco will hopefully light a fire under CGC execs to clean up their act.

I wouldn't be suprised if Blackstone sells CCG in the near future like 1-2 years from now.

BTW why did CGC move back to their old facilities ?

The Slabswaper did have an address in NJ...