William-James88

That wouldnt even be allowed on an 8,0 CGC uses overstreet standards for colour breaks so they are tight. Id sell that comic as a 6,0

4,0

Sure,its possible that you could get 9,6

2,0

sure, was just trying to keep things simple

You can send comics for a bunch of different signings in the same package. They are all going to the same address. And I shipped my comics in a typical brown box using USPS. Came back 9.8.

Plus CGC does have a screening service if you dont want the book to come back slabbed in anything less than 9.2 (in this case).

Not really. They simply grade the book in terms of how it looks, just as you would any other book. And if it has restoration, it's given a purple label which explains how much restoration there is.

Yeah. Since it says you can get the comic graded or ungraded, does this make it a "now or never" type of thing. Meaning that if years from now you buy an ungraded 1:1000 Keanu Reeved signed variant and you send it to CGC, it would come back green? That's what I would assume.

Restoration does not reduce the grade of a comic.

I do that myself just in case something happens and I can grab what I am looking for faster.

Doesn't the guide provide a bunch of images for each grade? I used the guide when I worked for a jeweler who sold other valuables on ebay, such as comics and I felt it was enough. We never had anyone coming back to us saying the grade was wrong. Anyways, if it's for insurance purposes, just tell them how much you'd want back, no need to be conservative about it. Plus you never know if some books you own suddenly become more popular and thus more expensive, making you under insurred. I'd just pick a number and divide it equally. As for valuing your collection so that your wife can sell it if anything happens, that really doesn't help. No dealer will care for that price, they just look at the bigger books you have and estimate worth that way.

It's all in order to figure out what it would get from CGC when preparing the books to send to them. But if the book is ultimately sold raw then you'll still have to resort to Overstreet. No one's gonna pay the CGC premium, if it exists, on books that aren't in CGC holders. That brings another point that only some books are worth more in a CGC case than raw. In the end, both standards are similar. The main difference I see is in terms of detached centrefolds/covers and the like. CGC will do some sort of compromise grade if the rest of the book looks good. But in terms of corners, computers breaks, spine wear, soiling, and creases, they are the same.

Yeah, that sounds about right. But I would still use Overstreet for that 3rd point just because you can't lose by grading conservatively and in the end none of us actually know CGC's standards.

I'm not judging. Was just curious because that comic felt like the odd man out but your reason us as good as any. Cheers!

Thanks for giving further proof. And I'm glad we are talking about it because there is a rebuttal I had for a while that I never got to write. The evidence brought forth for the fact that CGC graded harsher back in the day and that CPR with old labels is the way to go is that "there are very little old slabs still around". That in itself does not confirm anything. All that confirms is that people think it is a viable strategy and are willing to take the bet, like you did (there are now 4 less older slabs out there after you tried that strategy). That's all it means. It is not at all indicative of the result. And the results have been all over the place. Some have gotten better, some worse, some the same. But the big stories that people remember are the ones where it got better. And for those, all else being equal, it is just as or more likely that the reason for the grade bump was due to pressing a slabbed comic that wasn't pressed before rather than the grading standards themselves having loosened. And, @956Ref, of the ones you tried it with, the one that puzzles me is FF 9. The market value for that book in the midgrade range doesn't offer much reward for a CPR even if you got a slight bump in the grade, so why the attempt?

it wont. CGC will only ever validate a signature if it has been witnessed by them. And it will be green label in your scenario, so that comic should not be sent to CGC. By the way gang, is it just me or are we getting lots of autographed raw comics questions recently? It's a pretty black and white topic for CGC. If they didn't witness it, no dice.

Since I had not heard of this comic and someone posted this batterred copy, I wonderred if it was worth quite a bit in decent shape. Alas no.

7.0

That's where I am at.

4.0

That stain is gonna bring it down. Could land anywhere between 4.0 - 5.0

5.0

Press them, 100%

2.5