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Yes. I had the same thing happen to me about 3 weeks ago. Went to G/QC on Friday, back to G/E/I on following Monday, back to G/QC on Tuesday and shipped Friday.

I have never heard one bad thing about the guy. Everybody has nothing but nice things to say about him. Always nice and smiling. I have a few George Perez books but I am just not into sigs but they are still important to me.

On a related note I saw on IG that George was admitted into hospital for an infection. The signings might be pushed back or canceled. Very sad.

Haha. Me too. Probably would have been better to send them in fast track. If I don't get them back before Wakanda Forever trailer I am pretty much screwed. Oh well.

Do you primarily sell on eBay or a commercial website?

Anybody have any slow ECONOMY updates? Trying to get an idea where I am at in the queue.

I would honestly be careful with the "these will go to my son". Just about every collector says that. However, unless he knows comics like you do then it would be better to give them to a third party to sell when you retire. Otherwise, chances are he will get pennies on the dollar. People who are not emotionally invested in something usually just want to sell stuff and be over it. But hopefully he will get into comics and know how to get top dollar for them. I have seen widows first hand walk into comic stores and get next to nothing for their husbands books. It is sad but true.

I think you just need to properly access what you send in. Especially if you plan on flipping the books. For example, if you paid $100 for the book and after grading the book goes for around $175 it is probably not worth it. You have to factor in shipping to and from CGC, grading fees and/or pressing fees and then any fees associated with selling the book. That $100 book now has a buy in of about $145-50 and there is almost no profit. However, if you bought the book at around $20 then it is definitely worth it. My point is if you leave yourself ample room for profit whether CGC increases prices 5-10% you are covered. Price increases will happen over time. I specialize in books that I can grab for around cover price well before they are hot and sell for $125 or more.

To be honest nothing really surprises me lately. I had a recent order that spent 2 months in G/E/I. Then on a Friday it went to G/QC. The following Monday it was backing in G/E/I. Tuesday it was back in G/QC and it shipped that Friday. Give it another week and then call if nothing changes.

This is not a dumb question. You can definitely do that. However, if all of the tiers are on the same invoice, then they will ship the books when all of them are done being graded. So, if a few books finished in a couple months and one book takes 6 months then you will get all of them back in 6 months. So, in this case you may want an invoice for each tier in the same box. That way each tier will ship independently of each other. The only downside is you would pay shipping per tier. Extra shipping is a small price to pay to have books come back sooner.

I had a nasty hair in one of my slabs last year. I think it took about 2 1/2 to 3 weeks from when I sent it off.

Agreed. What can we really do after the fact. My order with CBCS is me off because the TAT when I sent it in was 10 weeks. 18 weeks later and nothing changed in my status. At least a few of the books have decreased to the point where I have to hold onto them or I might actually lose money.

Sorry to hear that man. Most of the people that post on here I see fast track getting done in 3 months or so. Way better than the 7 1/2 months I just waited for a slow modern.

Mine was received on 08/03 and I received my books last week. I am guessing in a perfect world they will get to you in the next few weeks. Mine was in Grading/Quality Control for 5 days if that helps.

Guessing 7-8 months for sure. Best of luck.

I am personally only sending in as Fast Track until the TAT improves. I know myself and I literally look several times a day for updates and it is nerve wrecking. To me it is worth the extra money.

If CBCS's TAT was night and day better I would at least send them my moderns. But last check their TAT was 175 days so definitely CGC is the way to go. However, if the CBCS TAT was like 90 days I would easily go CBCS. Most of my books I have enough profit into them where I can take a hit by going with CBCS and taking less money. Time is money to me. If I can flip a book and put the money towards something else I am fine with that. But with both companies having similar TAT it is a no-brainer to go with CGC. I think the only way CBCS will be a decent choice if they can be half the wait than CGC.

When is the last time you called? For some reason both times I have called CGC for different submissions my status has changed within a day or so. I am wondering if things are so messed up that if someone complains they skip them up in line a bit. Who knows? But it is worth a shot.

Does anybody have a slow economy that recently went to Grading/Quality Control? I have a submission that was delivered 07/01 and recd 09/09. Just wondering where they are in the queue. If you could post your delivered and recd dates I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Definitely agree. Unless CGC was willing to double their workforce they just cannot support the number of submissions. So the only thing I think is left is to limit the submissions. The price increases only made things worse. Somehow they need to get the TAT to 3-4 months. 6-8 months just makes people angry.

You are right. However, it comes to a certain point where the volume submitted just cannot be processed in a decent amount of time. I think we all can agree that 6-8 months turnaround is way too long. So, I think CGC will end up following what the sports card grading companies did. They basically eliminated the bottom tiers to lower the amount of submissions but kept the price high enough where they still were making around the same amount of revenue. PSA does not have a tier below $50. That would price out people from sending in books that command less than $80-90 because the profit is just not there. I am not saying this is a good idea but I think this is where things might be heading. For people making a living off of submitting newer lower priced books should try to come up with alternative streams of income in case something like this happens.

In my experience talking to the people that are anti-pressing I have found that they are just butt hurt that other people are maximizing a book's value. They can easily do the same thing but it usually comes down to money and drive. Submitting books is a pain in the for sure and the turnaround times are awful. But I bet if one of these people tried it where they found a bargain book and were able to bump the grade several points they would be hooked. Finding raw books and increasing their value is one of the things I find the most fun. Looking at a book in my hand saying I can fix this or that is exciting. However, it is not for everybody and it is their decision.

Sorry. Disagree. The same pieces of paper exist and nothing is added or taken away. At the end of the day a comic is paper, ink and staples. Pressing does not add or remove paper, it does not add or remove ink and does not add or remove staples. You can think whatever you want. Your opinions are your own and I respect them. However, I just do not agree. I prefer my books to be in the best shape as possible. I honestly do not care what a presser does to my book as long as it maintains a blue label and looks great. I had an Iron Man 55 where a kid wrote something in pencil on the first page and CGC noted it on the label. I had my presser crack the slab and erase the pencil mark and resubmit it and I am 100% fine with that notation being off of my book now.

Definitely disagree. If you iron a t-shirt, did you restore it? No, it is the same used t-shirt with less wrinkles. Now if you use foreign chemicals such as solvents or use color touch I would definitely consider that restoration because the actual comic has changed. Removing wrinkles did not change the consistency of the comic. Tape is borderline in my opinion. CGC considers tape not restoration as tape usually just holds the original pieces together. I honestly could go either way on tape because it is a foreign material.

Delivered 06/01, Received 08/03, was in G/E/I for 2 months and G/QC for 4 days. Shipped today. Right at about 7 1/2 months altogether 25/25 were 9.8 so definitely happy except that a bunch are now down in value from the long wait.