thirdgreenham

Thanks guys! Great prize.

This just in....I have received the second double bulls-eye for this round! Someone's gonna be happy!

That seems like an awful amount of work, Shin. 125 members, 2 PMs per round, 10 rounds = 2500 PMs for a full tourney. I've set it up so I get an email every time I receive a PM, so there's 2500 emails too. Remind me again why we do this?

Just completed another terrific transaction with Alan. Easy to deal with and you can be sure you'll get what you bought from him. 100% a straight shooter!

Booth 720. 4 booths right beside Harley Yee. See you there and be sure to introduce yourselves. -Andy

There was a seller on Granville that used to put the board in the middle of the book every time. Perhaps greggy just left it there....

Nice cover to Generations.

oh..those were your grades?

Don't worry, I won't.

Kidding!

Round 8: Your grades/guesses are due by 10:00 PM EDT on Thursday, August 17th. Book 15: Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #2 Off-White pages Book 16: War Stories #8 Off-White to White pages

Why sure, come with me.

Black Panther #1 CGC 9.4 Torchy #6 CGC 8.5

Round closed

Results in 3 minutes, folks.

all looked after

We have more double bulls-eyes than last round!!!

Thanks!! Excuse my ignorance, but if you were to give this picture a title, what would you call these two books?

...and so, would you make your offer lower when factoring what your costs would be to recondition and enhance the value? ie. maybe you're offering more because you see pressing potential, but there's also a cost to pressing, there's a cost to grading and all that's in between before you could actually realize any sales. Would that also factor into your offer? it seems that stuff that takes less effort to move and sell, you should actually pay more for than stuff that has a longer list of things needed to be done before profit can be made.

never seen these before, very cool.

Absolutely. There are a few reasons that I can think of why a dealer doesn't put a grade on his stickers: -he's not confident in grading -he doesn't know how to grade -he's lazy -he's going to be asking more money than that grade usually sells for -he doesn't want to argue with the customer over the grade (and this one is funny as it's usually the grade that helps determine the price in the first place, and it's nice to know how that price came about. The asking price could be far too high, based off of what he thinks the grade is, and you'll never know because he doesn't list the grade. For me, this is the most frustrating dealer to try to negotiate with)

From my first post in round 1: 4.) The page quality and any noticeable defects you can not see on the book from the scan will be given for each round. Do not PM with questions. Assume that all of the books have been pressed. The scans that you are viewing will be of the book already in its CGC case.

Going from a 9.4 grade by the dealer to an 8.0 grade by CGC is truly unacceptable. This is a well-known dealer? I mean, as @thehumantorch said, anyone can make a mistake or miss something, but overgrading by 4 grades (or 5 grades on a good day) is crazy. If they don't have their grade estimate on the sticker, ask them what they feel the grade is. Ask to see the book and you assess it for yourself. Get a clue about grading before spending decent money with someone.