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Off to the acetate store. Time to retire!

I know you are just relaying a message but it is a joke. It was not a part of the manufacturing process. These books were leftovers from a previous exclusive on 11/21. The acetate covers were not attached at this time. So, what is stopping a retailer to put a different cover on just about any book that apparently wasn't selling? If a normal person put an acetate cover on their book it would get a green label. So, why would it be different if Black Flag does it? They are not involved with the manufacturing of any book as they are just a retailer. The fact that they put these covers on themselves (the owner of Black Flag admitted to this in a video) without Marvel being involved it should not warrant a blue label. You (CGC) are basically opening the door to future f$%kery. The book was not created this way and it was not planned at all when the books were first published. The Stray Dogs 1 was manufactured this way. It was not altered by a retailer and they were delivered to the comic retailers this way. CGC is once again proving the customers do not matter and the influencers and retailers have more precedence.

Why? So they can say “prominent members of the comic community said it was okay to alter a book after production.”?

Do they really care about the BBB? Doesn't look like it to me.

A lot of us have books from July sitting there in Economy. So, if you get screwed like us you have several months to go. Cheers if you get lucky. Why is the declared value $1 per book?

I am at about 183 working days and still in SFG for slow economy.

I think transparency is needed when it comes to these long turnaround times. They have books that mean great deals to us. We should be able to know how many orders are in front of us at any given time. They have at least a few thousand dollars worth of my books and it is aggravating that I have no clue if they will be done tomorrow or several months from now. It has been 8 months since the received date plus the month it took for them to open the box.

My slow economy just hit 8 months so I am assuming it will disappear tomorrow. Way to knock those economy books out CGC! What other business is 8-12 month turnarounds acceptable? “Thank you for visiting McDonalds. Your food will be ready in 8 months.”

That or you are just used to doing stuff half- so it matches your work ethic.

Exactly. They are basically saying we never promised them so good luck getting anything useful. Especially now that they are giving them away for free there is less incentive for them to be useful. Bunch of garbage.

The other side to that is I have them seen them use generic notes that are so vague they really do not help. I sent in several books that all got different grades but the notes were all the same "Light stress marks to spine". Cmon bro. Worst copy and paste job I have ever seen. Just mailing it in because they are lazy.

I think if you just do fast track you won't have these issues. Yes, it is a bit more but at least you will have your sanity. After these last few submissions I will not do slow submissions any more. I will have to get used to a little less profit but at least my books will come back relatively fast. I would easily pay the fast track on the books I still have there if I could in hindsight.

If they have this much frustration on their own chat board do you really think they care about the BBB? I highly doubt it. I wish the answer was simple enough to go to their competition but CBCS has major issues as well. I am under the impression if you do not fast track your books you might as well forget about your books and be surprised when they eventually arrive.

C'mon, CGC is now co-owned by Jay-Z. He has 99 Problems but turnaround times ain't one.

To be honest if I was reselling a book I would just go regular label. Although some people like the labels, a lot of people I have talked to would rather have all of their books match. I try to appeal to the majority and I think most people would rather have the regular labels. I don't mind the labels but I would not pay any more for them if there were 2 exact books and one had custom labels versus regular.

I would love to see yours move. I have a 9/9 received date. All Black Panther spec books so they are going to be worthless if I don't get them back before winter. Smh.

I definitely have to so fanboys like you can have something to pick apart. Otherwise it would be boring.

No. The part about at least 2 graders per book. I don't buy it. Pre-Covid they did a convention with on-site grading. They gave an estimate of how many graders they had at the show and about how many books were graded that weekend and the math just did not work out. There is no way they could have done that kind of volume if 2 graders looked at every book. It was definitely suspect.

There is no transparency. They are completed tight lipped about their process. So just because they say it doesn't mean I believe it. Why not have a video that goes though grading a book from receiving it to shipping it?

Sorry but I do not buy that 3 graders look at EVERY book. Maybe on Golden, Silver and Bronze but on a brand new modern book I highly doubt 3 graders are looking at it and counting the pages. Just my personal opinion. They are not very transparent so until I see proof I am going to assume moderns are looked at by 1-2 people at most.

They go by working days which is around 145 days but that is till a crazy amount of time for a reholder.

Most people have been saying that for well over a year. It is much easier to use third party presser.

Dang. That was a long time coming. Congrats for finally getting them graded.

Don't tell NWO you have some sentimental DREK in there