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That would have to mean (if all the listings you found truly are the same seller) that prior to 2016 he sold under a different account since he only has 723 items sold on his account made in 2016

Does worthpoint give you the seller's ebay name too? I feel like some variation of "The money and hard work has already been done for you" isn't an uncommon phrase for people selling graded books (Although the exact use of $$$ may be more discriminating)

It would help if half of every page wasn't diluted with "If I were CGC I would...." posts. Does anyone really care what another boardie would do, I just care what CGC will actually do

I think pages like 10-30 have a drawn out discussion about that including some boardies who are lawyers giving their thoughts

Wait sorry, I didn't read this right the first time. If you think this is another example of the reholder exploit the seller is doing, you'd have to find an older pic of that 9.8 slab with that same certification number and see if the older pic shows a clearly different book than the one in it right now. The trick in this case (since I think the methodology is getting lost in all these posts) is that the 9.6 you found, was slipped into a 9.8 slab with that cert number and reholdered (retaining the same cert number) to make the whole slab "clean" again, and then the true 9.8 was resubmitted to have another 9.8 slab and "double dip". So if you find an old picture from a sale of that 9.8 cert number with a clearly different book in it, then you found another example. Otherwise it just seems like a 9.6 getting a 9.8 on regrade without that other picture as reference It's different than the green label IH 181 example because the same book going from green to blue makes it obvious that a swap was done, so we don't need the 3rd picture as reference for that, and with the ASM example we did have that 3rd picture showing that cert used to contain a clearly different book

It's a fright coward risk obviously

I'd stick with the slam dunks...this one just seems like a 9.6 being cracked out and getting a 9.8 on resub (which even if its not, and its also part of some weird plot of slipping a 9.6 into a 9.8 slab and then resubbing the 9.8 to double dip, there's no way to really prove that in this case since you'd have to find the true 9.6 in a 9.8 slab...and whats a 9.6 and 9.8 to CGC can change 50 times a day so...yeah I'd just let this one go, its a much weaker/less impactful example)

Wouldn't he have the return address on the package? (assuming he actually received it)

Did they say which Campbell cover?

The raw number of mistakes being reported here is pretty large, but what if the actual QC error rate is 1% of total submissions? To me that seems like an acceptable margin of error, and considering the total number of submissions CGC probably gets 1% would still be a large number. I don't know that's the case it's just a hypothetical, but my point just is that basing a conclusion on a raw number seems fallible.

Possibly, but you'll need a system for maximizing this comic's value

Even if they decide its a criminal matter and get a search warrant for the stolen property, would the owners even get their books back right then and there? Wouldn't the books be seized as evidence until the case is settled?

What are your thoughts?

He drew that? I drew that

Excuse me sir, this is a returns message board. Discuss returns or get out

The artist is Eduardo Barreto, the name is just misspelled in the banner

Yeah someone I've been talking to has pointed out a few more differences. Barreto's signature between Huntress and the Rocket isn't there on Dino's piece, and if you look at the scan of the entire board that Heritage has https://comics.ha.com/itm/original-comic-art/covers/eduardo-barreto-wonder-woman-319-cover-original-art-dc-1984-/a/7244-95043.s the writing on the top right of each board don't match up

Is there a thread for anti-flips? Dino sold this cover on today's dueling dealers for $2500 Sold 2 years ago at Heritage for 16.8K Someone at some point these past 2 years must have taken a real bath on this before it got to Dino

This might sound weird but I think it's just because of laziness (for lack of a better word). I don't think any of the alternatives are as pithy as sketch. Drawing, Illustration? I think the next best one would just be calling everything "pieces"

I'd go with the definition that prelim means something done in preparation for something else greater. So if the intent when this piece was drawn was for it to lay the ground work for a greater piece, I'd say it fits the definition of prelim even if that greater piece never actually ended up happening, as long as the intent was there. Edit: actually you know what, thinking about it more, I don't agree with myself. Because an artist could have a quick sketch they intended at the time to be nothing more than some quick doodling that they may later reuse as inspiration for a greater piece. But the way I defined it earlier would make that original sketch not a prelim since the intent wasn't there at the time. I don't know anymore, I'd just go with prelim means unfinished like comix4fun said

I'm not saying this is you or making any comment about your proficiency, but the last time I almost trusted someone who told me they daytraded as a hobby and found massive success with it, their advice was based on them taking an Udemy course on technical indicators and a rudimentary application of a simple moving average and bollinger bands. I didn't take their advice because as you say "Do your own diligence" but I wouldn't have been happy if I did. The only reason I even bring it up is because I got reminded of it because he came to me with the same sort of line "My charting is saying....". So it's just to say you may know of the right tools, and be doing analysis based on data rather than feelings or fundamental analysis, but that in and of itself doesn't make a methodology more or less valid or guarantee success (neither does past performance as the other old advisor saying goes). I don't know if you're right or not, I'm not by any means an expert on this type of stuff either, but I'm just wary of anyone who tells me they know what the market will look like in the future with as much confidence and eagerness as you express.

Ah, I slightly misunderstood what you meant then, my bad. But even then what you described is how chargebacks in America work as well. I'll admit I don't have much experience filing chargebacks (probably a good thing), but the one time I did for items that I bought but never received, when I filed the chargeback I was given a temporary credit on my account that freed up the amount I was charging back and then a case was opened and I had to wait about 2 weeks or so for my bank to do their investigation and then I was given a notice saying they ruled in my favor and that the credit would become permanent.

This is the first I'm hearing that Canada does not allow credit card chargebacks, every resource I found online says otherwise. It's just not allowed for fraudulent reasons (same as America as far as I know) https://nomoredebts.org/blog/credit-cards/how-to-dispute-credit-card-charge-get-chargeback#:~:text=Yes%2C but only for certain,getting double-charged by mistake. https://creditcardgenius.ca/blog/credit-card-chargeback-canada Why would you want the concept of a chargeback to not exist at all? What if you pay with a credit card through a direct processer and not through a platform that offered buyer protection (like Paypal or Ebay). The buyer could have their money literally stolen. It defeats one of the biggest benefits of using a credit card

I think what you're trying to get is the distinction between something that is of the genre science fiction, and something that includes elements of science fiction. Like for the latter an example I can think of would be medical TV dramas that have showcase medical breakthroughs or discoveries in the show that don't really exist in reality. I'd say that's science fiction, but I wouldn't classify the show as being in the science fiction category. For Frankenstein, I'd think you can argue either way for it but personally I'd say its a story that has elements of science fiction. I wouldn't put it in the science fiction shelf at a book store. tl;dr: I think a story can include science fiction without becoming a science fiction story