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Yes been submitting for a few years and have RECENTLY noticed the average grades are IN GENERAL 0.2-0.6 lower than in the past...If it is a 9.8 give it 9.8 and let the markets dictate the price EQUILIBRIUM...under grading in my opinion will likely decrease the # of books sent in...

Been CONSISTENTLY sending in books for a few years now and the grader note TYPE "finger bends" has seemed to just pop up over the last few months...also use to get higher grades but now it seems ON AVERAGE all books are 0.2 to 0.4 lower than in the past...maybe the grader moods have shifted or something or maybe it's just me

Whoops...seems fresh to me

Great info and thoughts as always

The certification numbers are the key as they are YOUR unique books and can ALWAYS be traced back to you...USPS REQUIRED signature REGISTERED mail is the way to go...

WOW...thanks for the FURTHER enlightenment on Valiant collecting...I see why your handle is Valiantman...ROCK ON!

Nice thought process Valiantman...I collected/invested in them back in 1992-93 because of their considerably smaller print runs of like 20,000-80,000 AND the artists and story writing was very high standard as well when Jim shooter started the company...what is even more interesting is trying to fill/find the last year issues of eternal warrior, shadowman, solar, harbinger, x-o manowar and BLOODSHOT...these are in GENERAL printed in even less quantities than the pre-unity ones believe it or not for example the last 4 issues of Bloodshot like #47-#51 (last issue) are less than 10,000 copies...Yowza and happy collecting and valiant movie watching...

Nice analysis...you hit the Magic 30 year demographic right on the head...these are the people that also are in their PRIME peak earning capabilities and on an AGGREGATE basis have more disposable cash to collect those precious "emotional memories"...after all most everything based on emotions even grading (i.e. RELATIVELY slightly better grades given when the graders are in a good mood verses a bad mood etc. and I am sure you guys can think of reasons for good and bad moods...just a fact of life...happy collecting!!!!

Yes sometime within next 3-5 months!

think harbinger and pre unity valiants starting to sell well...harbinger movie,,, master darque 1st app in shadowman #8 and bloodshot with the Bloodshot part 2 movie...

That is awesome...new process testing probably as well as a bit of luck...gotta switch things up from time to time in all aspects of business...

Yep happened for to me as well...sometimes it work that way and ya get LUCKY...an awesome surprise it was...happy collecting!

This seems like what happened ESPECIALLY when large number of books are sent via mail...had this happen several times when ordered from ebay...alomost the exact crunch to 7-10 books...

exactly...mood is everything in life...just a basic fact my friends...we are human!!!!