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Last time I did business with clink was back in 2016 and they were charging $35 for the CVA sticker Not directed at you in particular, but in response to CVA cost comments in general; Looking at their website, https://cvacomics.com/pricing/ it looks like the prices vary by the "declared value", and can be as high as 2% of "declared value" on items valued at >$3K. So I guess a sticker on a million dollar book would be $20K! Minimum charge per invoice is shown to be $50.

Just a couple of thoughts to add: I don't think combining the cover with a coverless would grade as high as a green 4.5. Think what a blue label grade a book would get due to a complete spine split / detached cover, and then put it in a green label since it would be a married cover, so probably something under 2.0 in green label. With that said, while it might only get <2.0 green if married, I suspect all Tec 27 values have increased in 2023, given some of recent Action 1 sales (such as the 0.5 and the page 1), and given the sale price of this cover only, so maybe it would still be worth 500K as a green <2.0?

Thanks again, I used to be able to locate sold items on the Metro or CC website, but couldn't figure out how to do that anymore, and then I saw your post.

Ahh, I see. Thanks. I must have missed that auction.

Who was the seller of the CGC NG earlier this year for $126k?

As a couple of sports card examples, 1986 Fleer Michael basketball has a Michael Jordan card and sticker, and 1987 Topps / OPC has a Brett the Hitman Hart card and sticker and in each case I believe the card sells for more than the sticker there as well.

I suspect that most books with trimming have at least one edge of their covers trimmed as well. If that's the case, then the book would need color touch as well, in which case CGC should have a better chance of identifying the fact that work had been done to the book (at least to the cover).

Bringing over one of my comments from the other thread, the Batman #1 shown in your post above no longer has any notes of trimming in the graders notes, but it does now have a notes of "pieces added cover A-5" and "pieces added interior A-3". I think that if CGC were consistent in their notes and detection of work done that CGC should note "pieces added" on all books that had treatments (leaf casting, or grafting, whatever that is lol) to add back ALL portions of the book that had previously been trimmed off. In that way, I don't find it surprising that CGC would no longer note that such books are trimmed, but assuming CGC detected the work that was done, I would expect to see all such books with "pieces added" notations instead, similar to what we see in the graders notes for the Batman #1 above. In other words, such books should still get a purple label but with pieces added notes, rather than trimmed notes.

Unless this was done to one of your books where you've seen this done for a fact, is it possible that something was lost in translation, and that Mike just meant that he was able to get the trimmed notation removed, but that it now has a "pieces added" notation like the Batman #1 in your earlier post? You wouldn't happen to have an example of a book that had a "trimmed" notation in the past, but which no longer has a trimmed or "pieces added" notation, would you? Or even some sample "after" scans of a book which has had such a treatment, would you? I'm curious if one could see the work that was done in a clear scan, or if it is truly next to impossible to detect - at least in a scan; maybe in hand it would still be possible if someone knew what to look for.

Weird, I've replied a few times already, but my responses aren’t showing up in the thread; at the risk of my prior posts all of the sudden showing up, here it is again; No, it shouldn't be able to go to a blue label, unless CGC missed the work that was done. If CGC catches the work that was done then it should get a "pieces added" notation + purple label.

Again, the trimming was not removed via leaf-casting. It was done with dry grafting. Right, but it's still considered "pieces added", and hence it would still get a purple label.

I think Susan Ciccone was doing leaf-casting on comics before Kenny, but who knows? Dry grafting is something else entirely. And I misread Mike's post. It didn't go from Purple to Blue, it stayed Purple, but he was able to get trimming removed from the label. So if a book was Purple for trimming and nothing else, conceivably it could be turned into a book that CGC would grade Blue. Seems like a game-changer. But maybe others do it as well? Is this like the early days of pressing when people were doing it and not talking about it? Has this ever been discussed over in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues? I talked to Mike about the process and was about to send him a book for similar treatment, but then Hero imploded and he went dark. So glad I didn't send him that book. If a book was purple for trimming and nothing else and it had leaf casting done to add back what the trimming took off, then I would think it would still state "pieces added" on the label, and therefore still get a purple label.

Good luck - hopefully your bid stands up!

Congrats @Withering Wind @Point Five and @TheGeneral. Great job to @Morganmi and @boron as well; TheGeneral is the last person I would want to face off against in a tie breaker!

I updated the spreadsheet that I use to track cumulative contest results for cumulative contest rankings. Congrats @Deputy Dan, I see that you have an average score of 22 over the 2 contests. The cumulative rankings thread I started has a minimum contests requirement = total contest / 2 - 0.25 = 8 / 2 - 0.25 = 3.75, so you don't have enough rounds to qualify for those rankings yet, but if you did, your average score would be good enough for the top 10!

The cumulative CGC grading contest rankings ignore tie breaker rounds, so without further adieu, following are the "MVP", "Diamond Club", and "Honor Roll" award winners based on performance through the first 8 CGC grading contests (I set the qualifying requirement at just under 50% x total contests to date = 3.75 contests; 3.75 contests x 4 rounds per contest = 15 rounds to qualify); Thanks again for CGC Mike for coordinating another fun contest and for providing the contest results for each round in an easy to copy / paste format! Congrats to all the award winners for contest #8, and hopefully you'll join the next one!

I am thinking this is the best option. My only hesitation is that I've heard that USPS is very difficult to deal with when it comes to claims. Which I hope would not be necessary. I've got four orders in this box and I've decided to break them up and ship each one separately. Good luck! I'm not sure if you can fill everything out online for Registered mail, or if you need to go to the post office to do all that, but for what it's worth, I found a USPS calculator that can give you an idea of the cost; https://postcalc.usps.com/Calculator/ As an example, plugging in some random area codes, going through various screens, etc., it looks like it came up with a registered / insured mailing cost of $114.20 + usual priority mail shipping cost based on a single package with $40K value.

Per Topnotchman's post above, USPS registered mail has a high insurance value limit, and I believe the insurance cost for registered mail is a lot cheaper than the insurance cost for other USPS shipping options. I'm not sure why CGC rep wouldn't have suggested USPS registered to you.

I could swear I've seen that signature before. I think the first name is "Donald"

I would say No if you look you can see it's not attached and if it was it would be called Restored. Technically, if it was attached with tape, I think it would still get a qualified CVR label, rather than restored CVR label, but that would just add damage to the cover; fortunately it doesn't appear as though that wasn't done.

That's pretty cool. I should have prefaced my comment with "Regarding the Honus Wagner card"

I don’t believe so. He had some comics including an Action 1 I think. Wasn’t he part owner with Gretzky of the famous Honus Wagner baseball card? You had the right idea, but the wrong Los Angeles sports team owner; Gretzky purchased the Honus Wagner card with Bruce McNall, who was the owner of the Los Angeles Kings at that time.

I’ve only submitted a few books for grading and don’t swim in the deep end of the pool. But what happened to “walk through” grading? What was previously the "walk through" tier now roughly corresponds to the "unlimited value" tier in so much as both of those tiers had unlimited value. However, whereas walk through tier used to have a 1 day turn around time (and iirc a 3% fee subject to a max grading fee; maybe even lower than 3% in the early days of CGC), the unlimited value tier has a 2 day turn around (with a 4% fee, and no max grading fee).

Excuse my ignorance, but Burrell has now left the hobby? And what about Chuck? Still in business? Yes, per Chuck's story about discovering / acquiring the Mile High collection that I linked in an earlier post, it sounds like Burrell left the hobby a while back. Chuck on the other hand, is still very much active in the business ( https://www.milehighcomics.com/ )

Per Mike’s earlier post return shipping would be $125, plus a $5 invoice fee I guess. Of course unless the submitter wants to risk shipping a multimillion dollar book with just $100k in shipping insurance, the actual cost might be more like $160,005 + travel costs to/from Sarasota (or possibly more than that if it really graded out at an 8.0, as the last 3.0 and 6.0 sales were $1.5 million and $3 million, so and 8.0 would arguably be worth more than $4 million today)