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GEI 5/16

It's actually not the stupidest price on this book on eBay.

Pressing time: 25 Modern, pressing billed 4/29, sfg 5/10

New set, this time to CCS instead of [other presser]. USPS says they were delivered to CGC mail room 5/2 AM, and they showed up today (5/8) "Received at CCS." A previous set was "received" 4/26 and is currently in CCS.

A day, it seems. They did not sit long in limbo. Fedex delivered them from the presser on Monday and they were done on Friday. I was shocked.

My recent experience says that Moderns are moving a lot quicker than Vintage. Modern Received: 4/2, Shipped: 4/5 Modern Received: 4/12, Shipped 4/18 Vintage Received 3/2, Graded (as per cert page) 4/11, Shipped 4/26

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.

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.

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).

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?

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?

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.

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.