joeypost

Looks like you made the correct decision.

Everyone gets their 15 minutes.

They’re t-shirt presses.

We are just beginning to experience whatever pains the acquisition will create. I am assuming experts will be brought in to look at processes and whatever training is, or isn’t happening. Where the bottlenecks really are and then what can be done to correct/eliminate them.

You’re about 16 years late to the discussion.

Even with anarchy there are some metrics. All depends what you do with them. I am a New York Rangers hockey fan. Always have been. In the 1970’s they had a good team, but the Bruins, Flyers and Canadians always had better teams, despite the Rangers throwing money at high prices superstars. They continued this formula all the way through the 90’s. When the salary cap hit, they were forced to go back to basics by drafting smart and making trades for the right players. They tried doing that but were still drawn by the marquee players. It wasn’t until recently they realized the need to rebuild smart and basically do an organizational reset. Now they have a competitive team that can grow into a cup contender. Sometime’s you have to hit the reset button to truly move forward and put your best product out on the ice.

Why wouldn’t they?

More interested in an answer. In most places, when you pay more, you expect to get what you pay for. When someone submits moderns and pays $24.00 and gets them back in a week, it makes you question the metrics used to keep track of the books customers paid $39.00 for that sit for months.

I have books submitted in November as fast track modern that are still sitting in GEI. I dropped off books last Thursday, both modem and modern fast track. Some of those are already done, graded and shipped while books I paid extra to expedite have not moved.

I don’t think so. I remember years ago doing a 9.4 pre-screen for a customer. When he got his books back from CGC he was disappointed that they all weren’t 9.4 copies with white pages. Many were 9.6 and 9.8, but had OW/W pages. I sat there and scratched my head for awhile before it hit me. He wanted a pre-screen for only 9.4 white pagers as that was all he collected. I told him to sell the 9.6’s and 9.8’s and buy 9.4’s for himself. The short answer is that a book that is a 9.6 will come back a 9.6 even though you had a 9.0 pre-screen.

I have a question regarding fast tracking options. You now pay $15.00 extra per book (minus any discount) to expedite a book. So any fast track books should get done before any books of the same tier that were sent in the same time or even much later. How many feel this is how they expect fast track to work? Not a trick question. I am going somewhere with this.

I have no JR JR keys. World war hulk was ruined by his artwork (IMO). I still cannot re-read the story.

Do you mean “can it grade higher than a 9.0” ?

Correctly fast cheap for me.

Not really a new process. They were simply pulling boxes out of rotation going to a new facility. The FIFO model at its best.

Picture?

Send it to a pro or buy a new copy.

I have never had an issue with ComicLink, and I have purchased and sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of comics with them.

Always ship directly to CGC. I am fortunate that I can drive books down and hand deliver. Personally, I have not had this particular issue with books at CGC, but one can see how frustrating/disappointing it is.

Hulk 181 ASM 129 X-Men 94 Giant Size X-Men 1 Iron Man 55 Nova 1 this and ROM 1 were big speculation books.

70’s for me starting with Thor 210 and later iron man 83 and hulk 197. Before that I only read comics others brought for me so I read a lot of ore-code horror.

My experience with situations like this is that they will eventually be found. Call but follow up your call with an email so you have documentation. I would also make sure you print out the submission form again to have for your (and insurance) records along with the shipping records.

I was at a show in Chicago where they offered on-site grading and one dealer had two books he thought were from the Church Pedigree. Two of the graders came to his booth to look over the books and they both smelled them. I was later told the closet they were stored in was lined with cedar, and the books had a slight odor to them based on that fact. It was one of the ways they used to identify that particular pedigree. I took them seriously, but hope it was not some elaborate joke on their part, as I am sharing it with others today.

I have also seen certain graders “smell” certain books to help verify which pedigree they were. Freaked me out the first time I saw it, but was later educated as to why later on.