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That's sweet, right there.

YOU LUCKY SPOON! Yes, I am. However, I seem to be snakebit on my World of Wood submissions. Missed on my World of Wood 1 in my previous submission and barely missed on this World of Wood 2. Really, really wanted the World of Wood 1 9.8. Oh well. The quest continues. The best Elvira 11 I've been able to find is a solid 9.4. I've looked through hundreds of floor dollar boxes trying to find a better one. Congrats on the grade. That's one tough book to find in nice shape for whatever reason. I have multiple flawless copies of issue 1 through 10.

YOU LUCKY SPOON!

Now that there are six 9.9's the book is probably worth a thousand bucks,gotta love speculators. Yeah, but the first 10 that pops up can take it to the bank.

Orbit #1 CGC 9.8 is still available.

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So what's the trick? I've tried several different slabs and they all have the same glares in almost the same places. I've also tried putting something under different edges of the slab to angle it on the glass. I can't get rid of the glare. Im not sure. I do occasionally get the glare at the bottom (only on new wells), but only when i scan on the lowest settings for registry scans. I do my scanning straight from photoshop, since my hp software wont work at all anymore. Regardless, ive never gotten glare in the middle.... One theory i have is some sort of grease/grime/film on the inside of the scanning glass. Mine is starting to show signs of something accumulating on the inside, maybe yours is farther along and causing the light to refract? Just a thought. One day i will clean mine, but it looks like a PITA. I'll try cleaning the bottom side of the glass later and report my results. (thumbs u

I have a 9.6 Cheval Noir #1 and a 9.8 Orbit #1 that are for sale. I'll be starting a sales thread tonight if nobody snipes them with a PM before then.

So what's the trick? I've tried several different slabs and they all have the same glares in almost the same places. I've also tried putting something under different edges of the slab to angle it on the glass. I can't get rid of the glare.

Maybe it's just a bad case of peyronie's.

Push on the back of the slab while scanning. Is that the equivalent of “Sit on it, Potsie!”? A little less pressure than Potsies fat . No luck. It's the inner well causing the reflection. This book is in one of those supder-duper thick slabs, anyway. There's no flex.

I bought an HP 7410 on Craigslist tonight. I have the same glare problems that were being discussed yesterday. I tried scanning several different ways with different colored paper on top of it and all of them look the same. Oh well, it's better than nothing for sure. [/img]

While I realize it's just a service that you're paying more for, I do appreciate the fact that they put the Fast Track tiers in and do see that as a positive. There are times when you can't let your books sit for 6+ months to turn them over, so they gave you an option to get your books through the door. Kudos to them for it, but kudos taken away for the atrocity the regular service has become.

You lack the skills of a jedi master.

True. He could also spin the slab and scan it upside down. This would cause the light to bounce off the inner well differently, perhaps eliminating the glare.

13ish days.

If you can't get the lid to close with a slab on the scanner, try covering it with something white. Paper, cloth, whatever. It might not fix it, but it might help. Hey Dice, Yeah, it won't completely close with thick slabs. The Shock was scanned with a box lid over the slab so no light could get in. Helped some but not all. I'll try the white method when I get home this evening. Thanks, David Also try completely covering it with a white sheet. That might do it.

If you can't get the lid to close with a slab on the scanner, try covering it with something white. Paper, cloth, whatever. It might not fix it, but it might help.

Jingle Bam! There are a few books that I classify as "stunning" when found in high grade. This is one of them.

Suck what?

I'm not mistaken. I'm pissed.

I'm just now getting a chance to look at my books in hand tonight and I finally see the problem. There were two books I didn't get my suspected grades on. One was this 9.2 and there was another 9.6 that I was expecting 9.8's on both. Both have spine damage that was not there when I sent the books to CGC. I suppose they could have been damaged in shipping, but I can't understand how two books were damaged and not the others because they were all together. Another option is that they were damaged when I packaged them to send to CGC. The odds of this are slim as I know how to pack books and have never had a problem before. I can't be convinced that this was the case. I really can't. Whatever happened, on just these two books it cost me $400 and I'm not happy about it at all. I know what I sent and what I'm holding in these slabs isn't what I sent.

I have one I've been sitting on to get a Vigil SS. Sweet book.

Yeah. I just had a grade change, too. It should have been a 9.8 but they gave it a 9.2. My mind is completely blown. The first book I've missed the grade on in a LONG time.