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    Take. Not 84
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    No….these are Amazing. You haven’t listed Spectacular yet
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    I'll let you know how it goes in a few days. I sent in an ASM 300 9.8 in a 2nd Gen slab for a re-holder about a week before this news broke. Currently in Grading/QC. No damage to the slab - it is just my OCD can't take having the different generations of slabs (and colors are more vivid with 3rd gen holders in my opinion even with newton rings). I use re-holder service more than grading these days as I convert newly acquired 2nd gen slabs or re-holder 3rd gen slabs to get rid a custom labels (not a fan) - so I am interested in how this process will work.
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    I don’t think one could say that the scandal has definitively impacted anything. The 194 9.8 sold for 2650 which is right at the 90 day average and where the book has been bouncing around since mid-2023. Depending on the book and platform - it has moved between 2500 and 3000 for six months. the 181 9.4 was 7% off the last sale which was in Oct so that too feels like a general marketplace decline. The 7.5 was soft but the 6.0 was exactly flat to 90 day and 12 month average - it was also the 2nd highest sale across the last nine sold. Given volume that books like ASM 300 and IH 181 trade at - and how likely it is that only a small subset of buyers even know about this topic - I personally don’t think is going to directly affect values that much This board is probably not representative of the knowledge and expertise of the average collector/hobbyist
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    Dealt with addiction of a close friend the past few years.....it is a whole different level of a problem. Sauce Dog's last post gave me bad memories of the kind of things I saw. Keeping fingers crossed for everyone.
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    Funny you bring this one up - they had another Aliens #1 in this auction and the listing even touted the “incredible sale” of that $7.5k copy. Swagglehaus has new YT video talking about a drastic overpay on a TEC issue this auction as well Here is the TEC 47 7.0 that went for $19k. Most recent sale was a 6.5 Promise Collection in 2021 that was $2400. Even 7.0 sales have never cracked $2k.
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    Good times are back! Over 3x GPA.
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    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 9.8 - $155.3k Aug 2023 (ComicConnect) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 9.8 - $131k Aug 2023 (Clink) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 9.8 - $132k Jan 2024 (Heritage)
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    Big day on Heritage. Three 7-figure sales and nine 6-figure books. Up sales: Supes #1 7.0 (2.34M vs 1.6M), BB #28 (810 vs 750) "Flat-ish": Bat #1 7.0, All-Star #8 9.4, ASM #9 9.8, TMNT #1 9.8 Down: Batman #1 2.0 (102 vs 177), Silver Surfer #1 9.8 (132 vs 222)
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    No love for Doctor Doom and Black Panther in this post Christmas window on Heritage. A FF #5 5.0 sold for $6.9k with last 5.0 sale in Sept 23 of 14.5k and a Dec 23 sale of a 4.5 for $7.6k. FF #52 in 8.5 went for $2.52k vs last sale in Nov of $3.3k and a 7.0 sold for $1.0k vs last sale of $1.5k in Dec. Perhaps just a bad selling window between holidays and the Platinum auction that starts on Thursday.
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    A short distraction if I may - saw this today from PSA and thought it fascinating given this conversation. That is a lot of counterfeiting happening on a single card in a single year. No telling how many raw counterfeits are still out there being sold......or being sent to other grading companies on the chance they won't be caught.
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    I think I have spent enough time on this thread now….but I do want to express very sincere thanks to those board members who have been working so tireless to track down and document fraudulent books. Whether it is acknowledged or not - I am sure your work has been helpful to CGC and will be to their investigators. My belief is by the time of final accounting (which may also be part of a plea or settlement deal with the perpetrator(s) ) - the impacts will be worse than we know but less than we fear. That may still leave many tilting at windmills for years to come - and not without some justification. And I will remain optimistic that we will see changes in some form that will help eliminate at least this version of fraud - and will remain pragmatic that where there is money to be made criminals will find a way. Happy New Year everyone!
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    I cannot state with certainty that all books keep the same date - but I have re-holdered several significant books this year (from 2nd Gen slabs) and all maintained their original grade date. Here is the example of a FF 5 I reslabbed this summer - graded in 2013 with photos in the CGC system of the 2023 3rd Gen slab.
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    At least we know Mike is not on Holiday sabbatical.