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On 8/20/2021 at 4:16 PM, ramithard said:

Recently I've had people make me an offer and I accept it...and then they don't pay.....ebay never used to let people get away with that....now it's very common...

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."  

On 8/20/2021 at 3:53 PM, Mercury Man said:

!!!

On 8/20/2021 at 3:18 PM, kav said:

Write back "I'm a very particular seller-I want the amount I will sell it for and not a penny less"

Yeah. 

On 8/20/2021 at 2:39 PM, Lightning55 said:

The .50 cracks me up.  Not $150, or $149, but $149.50

Yeah!  He just randomly came up with that number after noticing the defect!!

He said he'll "gladly" take it for that amount!

On 8/20/2021 at 2:27 PM, kav said:

pls add him to ebay blocked bidder list.

First thing I did. 

On 8/20/2021 at 2:16 PM, Lightning55 said:

Happens a lot.  You're lucky all this happened before you shipped it.  Then you might be out shipping cost BOTH ways, your work packing it, your work re-opening it, possible damage in transit both ways, at least a week of lost time on the market, etc.  Take the win, and don't worry about the 30 cents.

Most purchases are by credit card, and they always charge the 30 cents.  So most likely eBay didn't keep the 30 cents, passed it on to the cc company.  Been like that for decades, won't change now, except to maybe go UP (like PayPal, now 49 cents).

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....

5 hours ago, lou_fine said:

Absolutely love your sense of humour here.    

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.  

1 hour ago, Sensei Ryan said:

Got it - the reason I ask for pics is because I'd like to know if any of these crunches came back with higher grades.  If not, the damage had to happen prior to encapsulation (which seems to be the debate at the moment).  I don't want to see a 9.6/9.8 with a crunch like these...

Just opened the second box. 9.6s with same defects

1 hour ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I still dont believe they'd have got 9.4 and definitely not 9.6. They should be 7.5 with the crunch you showed

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

3 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

If they came back high grade with that crunch.....

Then it happened after slabbing 

 

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.

3 minutes ago, Buzz Cola said:

Why would you buy their shipping supplies? Double box it yourself and mail it in...

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.  

1 hour ago, SeanYork said:

Isn't it CGC policy to not accept boxes damaged in shipping?  They do that so the sender can file the claim with the shipping company.

That's good to know.  

2 hours ago, Buzz Cola said:

Best reason to get yourself a membership and send them in yourself. I've heard plenty of stories about people who assumed their LCS knew what they were doing.

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.  . 

3 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

I know this has been said a million times, but I guess it’s needs to be said again:

Always scan your books prior to submission 

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

28 minutes ago, jharvey said:

Looks like damage causing during shipping to CGC. I doubt this damage is CGC's fault.

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.  

2 hours ago, KEY ISSUES Comics said:

Ugh. Most likely damaged in transit. Could it be the store you submitted them through did not package them carefully? 

So sorry.

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. 

2 hours ago, gregwynn said:

Corner crunch....Could of been done while in shipping.....how were the books packaged/shipped enroute to cgc? 

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

6 minutes ago, toro said:

That happened to one of my orders once and asked them if the box was damaged and they said there wasn't any notes about a box being damaged.  I also had sent that order off bomb proof.  So basically it tells me they dropped it when they took it out of the box.  They also lost in that order my Green River certificate for one of the books.  I was not a happy camper.

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.