Tafkap

Don't take offers. I just don't believe in it. We have the product. We price it. Take it or leave it. Just like I don't think I'll do another regular auction. With a few exceptions, auctions almost always produce lower prices compared to what people are buying it for with "buy it now."

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Yeah.

Yeah! He just randomly came up with that number after noticing the defect!! He said he'll "gladly" take it for that amount!

First thing I did.

I've learned to give a little cooling off period before I ship. I got burned on returns before. I sold a Thor 337 CGC 9.8, the guy found a newton ring, sent it back and it got damaged when he sent it back.

I sold a ROM #1 newsstand CGC 9.6 with Buy It Now for $195.00. Plenty of detailed pictures on there, my selling policies and the fact that I don't take offers. After this person buys it, he waits a little while and writes me that he just noticed an imperfection; the photo clearly showed this; it's a 9.6, not a 9.8. He asks me about it and I honestly reply that there is a small imperfection and that's the reason it's not 9.8. He writes me back and says he's a very particular collector, as most are he says, and there's no way he's going to pay $195.00 for it. However! However, he'll gladly take for $149.50. Yes. It just so happens he'll take for $149.50!! I wrote back I would just cancel it. It took me a minute or 2 to realize that this way some misguided attempt to get my comic for a lesser price since he figured, it's "sold." Then Ebay charges me .30 for the cancel! Ever have this happen to you? BTW, I put it back on and it sold in about 30 minutes.

Just wondering if anyone here has managed to make a steady income of flipping CGC books? Specifically, buying graded books and selling them a few weeks/months or so later for a profit? It would seem that if one was very knowledgeable and/or lucky it could be possible.

Update: So after 2 weeks CGC has agreed to press and regrade my comics. So in about another year or so I should get them all back....

Thank you. It was a joke 40 years in the making. It needed just the right punchline!

Update: So now it's been one week since I discovered the damage. My LCS owner spoke to CGC on Monday, then followed up via email and phone. And....nothing. No word from CGC. I'm thinking maybe I should speak to them myself? Do they usually take their good time to respond to issues such as this? It's funny in a way: For 40 years I stored these comics perfectly; meticulously picked out the cherry copies and had them pressed to be all 9.8's and send them off to the premier comic book company. And then they come back like garbage! It's funny. Very funny.

Just opened the second box. 9.6s with same defects

There are varying degrees of damage. Some of the damage is pretty small; but still there.

No. These were graded with the crunch; these were all 9.8 candidates to begin with; he told me he noticed the same defect on a 9.4 and 9.6

Update: My LCS owner informed me the second batch of my comics just arrived from CGC - with similar defects. Now CGC wants "before" photos of which I have none. It'll be telling if the word of LCS holds any weight; he does send quite a bit to them it seems. If not I'll call CGC myself and beg. One way or the other I'm going to have to get them all pressed and regraded.

An update. My LCS owner has been communicating with CGC. CGC said they DO NOT accept damaged boxes; they send them back to sender. So the box was not, at least noticeably, damaged on the trip to CGC. This lends weight to the comics being damaged AT CGC. Before anything however, they said they first need to investigate it.

When you sign up for a new membership they send you a packing supplies, comic bags and boards and package for up to 40 comics included.

That's good to know.

Really? Plenty of stories? Maybe I will do the membership. In the past I actually signed up for it myself but the wait to get their shipping supplies made me cancel and go back to the comic book store. .

Now I know. But even so, would CGC accept the scan as proof?

Well there's a chance I might be able to figure that out because 40 books were shipped to CGC in one box by my local comic book shop owner but I CGC divided the order up. I only got back the first 25 so far. Perhaps if the rest of the comics coming back do not have damage it will point one way or the other to the responsible party.

At this point anything is possible. Thanks. I only know when I gave the comics to him that damage was not there; they were all pristine and pressed.

That was left to my local comic book shop owner who presumably does this all the time.

What happened? Did they try to make it right?

I just got 25 books back from CGC. I went through my local comic book dealer. They were all pressed and examined before being sent out. A majority of them have come back with damage on the rear left upper corner; scrunched; I posted photos on the thread I posted in Comics General. For the CGC representative: What will CGC do to make this right? I waited 4 months to get these books back that should've come back 9.6s and 9.8s and now they're anywhere from 8.5 to 9.2? I am soooo upset. Please CGC help me out.