kcm54

On 4/23/2024 at 12:26 PM, Hulksdaddy1 said:

Clearly, something is going on in encapsulation.

And seemingly for Vintage.  I had a dozen books waiting in GEI since 3/7 (about 6 weeks).  They just shipped and they were all graded on 4/11 -- 2 weeks ago.  Meanwhile Modern books turn around in a week.

On 4/23/2024 at 3:43 PM, Ed Hanes said:

You can try selling lots on MCS (for comics that cant be sold separately) at auction only...but you will not make your money back..but you will get something back. Ebay is fickle when it comes to non key raws...key raws do  well on Ebay..but non key raws dont seem to do as well as their slabbed counterparts (from my experience)..and I think this has to do with the international market. 

eBay auctions seem particularly fickle.  Even for key slabs they seem about 10-20% under what you'd get waiting on a fixed price.  With MCS, you have the auction schedule to let people know when books are coming up, but still you're selling to bargain-hunters.  With eBay, it's the luck of the draw on top of that.

A lot of good information from several of you.  I am learning a lot and in retirement I've got the time to learn.

I guess it depends on how you look at it.  If the question is "Should I sell on eBay or at MCS?" you have to consider this.

On 4/23/2024 at 8:39 AM, topcat54 said:

If you are going to sell I would say post them in the for sale threads on the CGC board it cost nothing to list . To get an opinion on grades post pics or scans in HEY BUDDY CAN YOU SPARE A GRADE here on the boards.

Mostly my question is what to do about books that range from $40-$100 when slabbed but might sell for $10 raw.  It might be that there are more people looking for raw books they can read than non-key slabs. 

MCS marks up comics about 15% to post them on eBay (because they have to pay the eBay commission).  So, if it sells there, I lose that 15%, plus MCS's normal 10% on top.  If I post a price on MCS of $100, it gets listed on eBay for $115 and if it sells for that, I get $90. 

I find myself adjusting my price on MCS to compensate for the eBay markup.  Maybe that's just the cost of doing business, but it affects what I put on MCS.

I'm getting along in years and am starting to sell off my personal collection, while I can still use the money.  Mostly high-grade books 1970-1990, Marvel.

The books fall into three categories

1.  Utter junk (e.g. New Universe)

2.  High-value books (e.g. ASM 129, GSXM 1)

3.  The rest.

Currently, I'm submitting anything that GoCollect has at $100 or more in a grade 2 below what I think I have.  But I wonder about some books that are worth a bit at the 9.8 I hope to get, but maybe only $50 at 9.2, which is always possible.  Does it make more sense just to sell them raw?  Is there a discussion of this somewhere on the boards?  The Search function doesn't work well with words like slab or raw.

Additionally, where to sell?  eBay is obvious.  MCS has plusses and minuses (particularly that fixed value sales happen on eBay anyway, with a double commission).

Lastly, what to do with the utter junk?

It's important to note that you should use the RAW value of the comic in its approximate condition, not what it might get after grading (which is presumably higher).

On 4/18/2024 at 7:23 AM, KaileeS CS said:

Hi @kcm54, for both questions, CGC will honor the discounts as long as the membership upgrade/member discount changes happen *prior* to the order being received by our facilities. If it's an order already in house and these changes are made, the changed discounts would not apply until the next order received.

Hello @Gary Douglas ORange, your membership is set to nonrenew on 06/22/24. At that time, you will be returned to a free account.

Please let us know if you have any additional questions. Thank you!

Please see order CGC4252546913, which entered your system on 11/27/2023 (at full price) but was not received by CGC until 4/2/2024 after the 10% discount was added to my then-existing premium membership.

 

Two related questions:

1.  Recently, premium members gained a 10% discount.  What happens with a submission that was created prior to that point, but was delayed at a 3rd-party press so that it arrived at CGC after the discount was available?  Can the submission be granted the discount?

2.  Similarly, if a submission was created and sent to an external press with a 10% discount applied, but while it was at that external press, the member upgraded to Elite.  Can the 20% discount be applied when it finally arrives at CGC?

On 4/7/2024 at 12:47 PM, NickiO CS said:

Hello @kcm54,

Thank you for reaching out. I am sorry for any confusion. The email is incorrect. Your Elite membership discount is 20% off grading and pressing fees. 

Let us know if we can help with anything else! 

Not to tell you guys what to do, but that automated email could probably be revised.

So, I just upgraded to elite.  The submission page says I get a 20% discount, including pressing, but the email I just received says 10% and excludes pressing.  Which is correct?

So, if I were to upgrade now -- a month before the end of my term, and hadn't yet used my existing $150 credit, would I get a second credit added?

My membership auto-renews in a couple of months.  While I would like to upgrade to Elite, the current form charges me the entire amount of an annual membership to upgrade, even though I am partway through the year.  I'm not inclined to do that.  Is there a way to get my membership to step up at the auto-renew date?

On 1/10/2022 at 10:41 AM, CGC Mike said:

If you are not able to add more in a reasonable amount of time, I would recommend abandoning that form and starting a new one.  If this problem persists, let me know, and I will submit a ticket to the web techs.

I am hitting this limit trying to download images of my slabbed comics.  It persists on multiple browser instances.

So, the moral is always undervalue your books? 

CLZ says they will be looking for a new partner, but it will take time.  Considering that the only other software that takes CSV files seems to be ComicBase (and the UI there is hostile to me), I'll stay with CLZ.  GoCollect can go collect someone else's money though.

On 10/14/2021 at 12:53 PM, RedKSuperman said:

CLZ is an excellent app that works with GoCollect but they have been having some issues with updates, etc so GoCollect might be going bye bye.  Anyways, my advice drop the $1.99 per month for the CLZ subscription.  It makes your collecting easier and it's a record of your collection if anything happens to it. 

 

-RKSM   

CLZ (which I like) are going to have to replace their GoCollect connection since the must-have price updating is no longer working (and the new GoCollect website is terrible).

I sent 10 books in for modern grading, no pressing on 4/21.  On 6/10 they acknowledged the submission and scheduled them for grading.  On 8/9 they charged my credit card.  I got the books back, graded, in early October.  So, that's about 25 weeks, door-to-door.

I shudder to think how long it would have taken with pressing, and the 3rd party people are swamped, too.  It has me considering CBCS again.

I think that the problem is there are only so many qualified people near their place in Florida.  If they want to expand, they are going to have to open satellite offices elsewhere.

NCB bends, particularly.  I just got a few books back that looked like 9.8, but it seems that there were some tiny spine indentations that would obviously go away with pressing.  More grader's notes would have been helpful.

On 10/29/2019 at 2:33 PM, silversufer27 said:

def worth grading i would say  6.5 maybe higher

Cleaning up the back would help

So, would you pay more, or less, for Captain America 111 with a double cover?

Also, if you cleaned it, what does the back look like?  Before there was some smudge dirt and a stain.

I could have sworn I posted the images.  But whatever.  They're there now.  That line on the lower right was a hair on the scanner.

The real question is: Does pressing usually get rid of NCB creases?  Is there a list of pressable defects somewhere?

I look and I look and I see maybe some blunting on the LHS, plus 2 NCB creases coming in from the spine, one across the Thing's feet in the title box, and one ending at Mr F's mouth.

I have no experience with pressing, but it seems like getting rid of those creases would be a good thing.  Maybe cleaning, too.  At 9.0-9.4 they say it's worth $100 and 9.6 is maybe 4 times that.  Or am I just dreaming that it's anything like that?

2 hours ago, The Lions Den said:

One of the toughest areas in the grading spectrum...the question I like to ask is this: Is it a nice book that has some serious flaws, or is it a low grade copy that looks nice?  

In this case, I think you're in the right range. I can see 5.0 or 5.5 on this one...

It's a pretty book until you look closely.