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Insurance in what sense? That the post office doesn’t lose them? Then you insure them. That CGC doesn’t lose them? That’s why you declare a value on the form. Not sure what you’re asking.

I hate PST sales threads. I browse these forums during the 158 commercial breaks watching sportsball and my games are long over and I’ve moved on to Skinemax by the time PSTers start peddling their wares.

I’ve used fast track a couple times when regular CGC turnaround was taking 6 months and I had two cons close together and wanted a certain book multi signed. Both times I got my books back in about 2 weeks. I haven’t used it since bc regular CGC has improved to 4-6 weeks return time and that’s usually fine. Maybe CGC just likes me.

If analyzing data and predicting future trends was an exact science there’d be a lot more billionaires on Wall Street. I’m sure there are a few Michael Burry’s of comics but generally the entire market is reactionary. “James Gunn liked a tweet saying Matter Eater Lad is awesome! Quick! Change the price on his first appearance from $20 to $200!” As I’ve said before, I look forward to the day the MCU and DCU go away. That’s when we’ll know the true value of everything associated with comics.

I never understood this either. I watch a lot of IG sales streams and often there will be people selling slabbed random commons for like $25-40. At best maybe you make just enough to buy a Starbucks latte.

CGC sometimes does “team” signings but I understand they can’t always do that. There’s so many teams it’s impossible to get them all. It is annoying that CGC won’t but I get why it’s impractical for them. Coordinating that would cause more problems than it’s worth. Facilitators are better for multi sig projects.

Four days worth? Sweet. Flood that market. I was going to send in my 8.5 NM 98 but once 500 goofball flippers get their chisels back & up on feebay I’ll be able to snag a upgrade when prices drop like a stone like they did with ASM 300s after Toddy’s signing.

I have about two long boxes of what I’d consider my PC, the ones I’d never sell. Some of them have been bagged and boarded for over a decade and a half, almost two. I’m thinking about redoing them as my winter project but I face a similar dilemma to OP. I don’t think I’d leave them in piles but I hate tape too so I’m thinking redoing them all in those fancy cool self sealing bags. Except those aren’t really considered the “standard,” mylars are. And I do like the look of mylars better. But that requires taping them all. And again this is my PC and I don’t care that regular Poly bags break down or aren’t “archival” bc 25 years from now I’ll prob be in a home gumming applesauce. I feel for the collectors in this thread. It’s hard getting older.

There’s a GREAT Kirby documentary on Tubi called Kirby at War. I highly recommend fans check it out.

There are many sellers or third party consignment services that are certified CGC witnesses. There are even random board members on here who can be witnesses. You don’t need an official CGC employee to be a witness, just certified by CGC.

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Whoever listed that has no clue what that card is worth. I can ASK for $2 million for my mint copy of XForce 1, that doesn’t mean it’s worth that bc people won’t actually pay that. If you search by ebay SOLD listings, you can find that exact same card in that exact same grade (by a far far far more reputable grading company) SOLD just last week for $22. That exact same card graded 1 grade lower sold twice this month for $5 each time. It costs $20 to grade a card so you can do the math.

I’ll be honest, when I saw the original potato quality “Before” pic part of me wanted to think OG purposely used video distortion to obscure tape or a tear or something that had that corner hanging on for dear life. But now that I see it much clearer I don’t see any explanation for the whole corner being torn asunder except VERY egregious mishandling. It certainly doesn’t look like something that’s just about to randomly fall off like a zombie’s withered limb. This thread has shaken me to the foundation.

that is unbelievable. I’ve seen many many mechanical errors but to tear an entire corner off a book? I almost want to believe there was two copies that grader was grading and he somehow switched them. If someone there submitted a Jumbo 102 with a missing corner and it came back magically healed, ‘fess up!

This. Exactly this. People unfortunately have this misguided notion that someone selling the things they like are the same as them. This is absolutely not the case. I owned a video store in the 90s (yes, I'm that old) and my partner had ZERO interest in movies. It was comical when people would come in and try to engage him in conversation about this movie or that when he maybe watched 3 movies a year. Different friend of mine is a hardcore card flipper. Makes close to six figures a year at it. But the ONLY sport he cares about is football. Doesn't stop him from flipping Giannis popcorn exploding refractors or Steph champagne cork parallels all day long. I help him when he tables sometimes and again it's fairly comical when someone walks up wanting to talk hoops with him when I think last game he watched was the 1996 Bulls. Dealers just want your money. Period.

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I’m always flabbergasted that the original LXG was so horrible it sent Sean Connery into permanent retirement I actually think it’d work better as a prestige steaming series but at the rate apps are losing money I guess nobody would want to sound that much.

CGC clearly states on the signing announcement it takes 6 weeks from the signing to get your book back - 8 weeks if you included pressing. So it depends when Rob does his signing. He posted on FB that he probably won’t do the signing until end of August due to Marvel deadlines. So if you didn’t waste time with pressing, you’ll cut it close with the Lee one - and if you did, it’s going to take a miracle. As for your other question, I don’t know what you mean by “value added.” If you mean increase the value of selling your book, I’ve never known anyone ever who got excited about a colorist’s autograph.

In my experience signers seldom read what you write on your window so odds are probably like .0001%. is it worth it? If you’re a giant Keaton fan I guess. Flippers are gonna flood the market and I don’t think they’re gonna get what they think they are. I’ve had a Margot Robbie Harley autographed photo cover for sale for over a year and never gotten any interest in it - and she’s arguably the biggest star on the planet right now. When the market has 250 Batman books signed by Keaton floating around they’ll be lucky to break even.

Yeah I thought the CGC grader guy said unverified sigs graded as blue labels get an automatic 2 grade deduction. So a 7.0 would be a 9.8. I dunno if this is an error or whoever graded that one didn’t get the memo.

If you don’t want an ugly green label for a unwitnessed sig, you specify to CGC that you want the book graded as a blue label instead. In that case they consider the signature “a defect” or “a flaw” and downgrade your comic accordingly

I've gotten dozens of signed books pressed, sometimes multiple times, and never had a signature damaged by pressing. I have had a lot of books that were already graded get cracked - what you are calling unsealed - and come back a grade sometimes two lower. This has happened to books I've had pressed and not pressed. I would just say how important is it to you that your book is graded 9.8? Will you be absolutely devastated to where you avoid walking across bridges lest you feel the urge to jump off because your book came back a 9.6-9.4? If the answer is yes, I'd find another book to send in. If the answer is no, I'd just send it in and not bother with pressing and take the chance your book comes back same grade it was sent out. If it comes back lower, you can always re-submit it to CGC and have it pressed.

I don't get it either. But I guess some people just like collecting whatever odd variations of common comics they can find. I watch a lot of IG streams and you always see people asking for Mark Jewelers or Pence copies or CPVs or any other slight little deviation that makes a regular ordinary - often easily found - book into a "rare variation."

I've been using coverprice for awhile now. I find it much better than Gocollect. Their FMV calculations seem a little wonky sometimes but if you click on sales data where they break down all the recent sales in whatever grade, I've found their pretty useful with finding what something is selling for. It's weird you mention those other sites because I seldom buy from either of them because they seem to be the ones completely out of touch with reality. Mycomicshop is by far the worst, everything there is priced ridiculous. Ebay is a little better, especially if you have time and patience to search the auctions for deals, but there's still a lot of flippers who bought stuff during the boom who think it's my problem and price like its 2021. The best prices I've gotten have been here, IG and FB.

And Green Turtle, especially since he’s the first Asian American hero.