William-James88

Elektra here looks like Sienna West

From my understanding with all my UK friends, yes you will get hit. America has a strict policy on listing the value of the contents of the package and in turn that value will be used to assess how much you owe. You have to check with your government website on taxing fees. This site here says you will be charged standard rate https://www.revenue.ie/en/vat/vat-rates/search-vat-rates/B/books-of-stationery-printing.aspx That's 21% right? YIKES!

Interesting how the very cover shows the connection between Overstreet Grading standards and CGC.

No wonder we get along so well.

Blue label.all the way.

I wouldn't go all crazy on this. Remember its for insurance purposes. When it comes to premiums on high grade books, you'd have to prove those premiums with a cgc slab.

It's not. You heard of those amazing instances where people find some super rare and expensive comics in their attic? Well, this is the opposite of that.

Well there's the actual Overstreet price guide. If you want something more up to the minute look at previous sold listings on Ebay. Same applies for your question on slabbing. Check how much a cgc 9.4, 9.6, 9.8 sells for on ebay to determine if sending it in is worthwhile compared to how much it sells for unslabbed.

That's correct.

I know. Glad to meet a fellow Overstreet fan. I have fond memories of learning to grade with that book. And CGC based their standards on Overstreet when they started so them matching makes sense.

That's why I recommend using overstreet, it is an actual guide to grading. CGC's standards are purposefully vague. Since we only have Overstreet available, that's what I use. Granted, @Randall Dowling mentioned high grade books and yes beyond 9.2 I think overstreet doesn't really work. Afterall, their Price Guide does not go beyond 9.2 and I never felt comfortable pricing a raw book beyond the 9.2 grade. That said I wouldn't use the non existant CGC grading system to grade and price a raw book beyond a 9.2 either. If I want my client to pay me 9.4, 9.6, 9.4 CGC prices, I have to give them a 9.4, 9.6, 9.8 CGC graded book. Most on e-bay seem to do the same though, by writing 9.2 or higher, so I think many in the industry came to the same conclusion. Plus, easy way to avoid returns.

I have used Overstreet grading standards for raw books all my life because CGC standards only apply to books in CGC cases. And I have never had an unhappy buyer, ever. Heritage Auction, the biggest auction house in this business uses Overstreet standards (their grading guideline is a copy paste of the overstreet guide, as is My Comic Shop's). If it's an ungraded book, giving it a CGC grade and selling it raw makes no sense. I would highly discourage anyone paying more for a raw book because someone said it's a 9.8. If someone's gonna charge me the price a CGC 9.8 sold on e-bay, that book better be in a CGC case with 9.8 as the grade.

Oh man, great question. I have a similar issue with a Golden Age book where the wraps were not cut right and you have excess wrap on one page while it looks like there are tears and missing pieces on the other wrap. But when you connect them, you see how the whole book is there, just cut wrong. In my case, I wouldn't touch it and I would hope that the people grading are smart enough to notice it and chalk it up to a production error and I wouldn't suffer at all. On that logic, I think it would be best for you to keep it inward, as it was produced and thus is being judged as a production error. Would look terrible in a CGC case though, since no one would believe the label and just say it's a QC error on their part. Ultimately, I wouldn't send this book in and simply sell it raw. The book is a 7.0 at best so not really worth sending in.

No, but you can always ask people here what they would do, providing you offer photos and grader notes.

9.6 is the highest though usually a colour breaking crease is bigger and more obvious and will get a lower grade than that. but we are alking hypotheticals here, so the answer is a a hypothetical 9.6

If they do it correctly, it would be 9.8 green label.

It depends on a bunch of variables, here are all the costs associated with CGC https://www.cgccomics.com/submit/services-fees/cgc-grading/

No clue, but you won't get your answer here. All you can do is call them back today.

I tried but all my local LCS don't stock mylars for Golden Age books. So too bad, online purchase it is.

Step 1: remove from polybag Step 2: have the comic pressed to remove possible polybag crease Step 3: send to CGC for grading As for inserts: if they are ATTACHED to the comic, leave them attached. If not, no need to send them.

I disagree, if it's to preserve it, you're better off using archival bags and boards (like Mylars). CGC is a third party grader so their purpose is really to help with the sale of pricier books so that the grade is less debated between buyer and seller in a higher stakes comic transaction (either higher in terms of grade or price).

Man, that Heritage auction is rough. Even random books are getting new record sales. I bid rather aggressively and got nothing out of it. Wondering how long this boom is gonna last.

Here's what came in this past week.

How old are you then and how old are the books you collect?

Interesting, it's the same grade you gave this horror book and yet that books looks in much worse shape compared to this FF book.