OJ Pimpson

So there is a specific reason I am asking and I hope you will be able to provide an answer ive had Jim Lee sign my books on several occasions over the last 30 years, all the way back to when I was ten years old. Some live at cons and a few through CGC signing events. He is extremely nice and has always been 100% accommodating when it came to signature placement and color. That is until last year when CGC held an exclusive SDCC signing event where books had to be dropped off in person at the CGC booth. I dropped off 4 books. All were taped off to designate where I wanted the sig to be placed and I very largely notated what color in I’d like the signature to be in. like I said, Lee is very accommodating and has always been kind enough to sign as I requested. But for the SDCC event the signature placements and color were all over the place. I am aware that per CGC terms color and placement is strictly at the discretion of the artist. And that’s fine, I accept that. However it seems to me that Lee was probably overloaded with books to sign in a very short time threshold, thus was unable to be as accommodating as he always has been in the past. And if that’s the case with this signing, I’m probably going to pass and wait for a situation where he isn’t rushed and almost certainly will make accommodations for placement and color thank you

Jim Lee is the 🐐

Or will it be at held at CGC or an LA office?

Please don’t do it

I have no idea, but I’d be shocked if they didn’t. Because I don’t think I’m alone in this, but I would be far more likely to attend if CGC was there. and yes CGC was there in 2021. It’s clear they attended because even in 2021 cons were sparse. SDCC didn’t happen. Still they are coming out to Southern California for SDCC a week later. Logistically it wouldn’t be difficult to make this happen. 120 miles away

And They have a much better artist line up than Wondercon.

Thank you for response. I hope you guys reconsider. CGC attended in 2021 the last time I went to TorpedoCon, and I much prefer using your services directly

They have a monster lineup so it’d be really nice to have you guys there. It’s a week before SDcon why not do both?

In in in

CGC is very fortunate their only real competition is an underfunded incompetent company owned by the the most incompetent company in the collectables world, Beckett.

Whatever. Attempting to discredit that video with irrelevant nit picks is shill behavior

This is utter nonsense. You want badly to see this person as a bad actor or charlatan, when in fact this video is a great service to the community. The video clearly demonstrates that with a modest amount of patience and effort these slabs can be compromised. Now, instead of only the scammers being aware of this, we all are, and it will further pressure CGC to make the security upgrades needed to protect against tampering. His video has 8k views which likely amounts to a YouTube ad rev check for less than the change you have rattling around in your pockets and the stuff he sells on his website is so niche I doubt he breaks even on any of it. He’s just a guy that loves science and comics and there is no reason to doubt his intentions. You on the other hand are a clear shill

So all of these gift 9.8s we excoriated CGC graders for were actually scam books. They were perfect all along.

I’m clearly one of the three people he is refering to. I wonder who the other two are?

Careful, I received a warning for talk like this yesterday. Additionally CGC made it mandatory for me to “acknowledge” the infraction to conintue to post. Ironically the whole point of my initial posting was that pressure from competitors might hasten an Acknowledgment of this ordeal from CGC. Merry Christmas everyone. I hope to come back here tomorrow to find that CGC has announced sweeping changes to their policies, offered a FMV buy back to anyone stuck with any of these fraudulent books and filed federal charges against the scammer.

“Can sum up the Cole Schave scam in a few sentences” - responds with a link to a thread with 5,000 posts LOL

They looked at his reholdering history and the entire PR staff all quit

Lock this thread? Zero chance that would ever be seriously considered. If they shut down this conversation while at the same time remaining completely silent would for all intents and purposes confirm everyone’s worst fears. And at that point they might as well make CGC.com a redirect link for cbcs

It’s shocking that they let this go on for a week without even an acknowledgment that they are aware of the situation and are investigating. However this is dwarfes the “controversies” of the past like the acetate cover so maybe they are overhauling their PR playbook. By the way their PR Playbook had one play and it was this…

Not sure about this. The other guys slab, which I have purchased to crack and send in to CGC is significantly harder to break out and in my experience causes much more damage to the entire slab in doing so. Of course I don’t know how the fraudsters opened their slabs so anything is possible I suppose. BUT, even if they could pull this off at the other graders, why would they when doing it at CGC guarantees you a 25%-50% higher return. So I’m pretty comfortable concluding that this hasn’t happened to them. Yet fortunately for CGC their competition is utterly clueless and incompetent and will do nothing to capitalize on this opportunity

CGC obviously knows the account associated with the fraud. The very first thing They need to do is release a list of every individual book this account has reholdered and offer to buy back all of them at FMV

CGC is looking at this guy’s grading history and they are so shook they can’t even release a statement

There has been a demonstrable decline in the number of 9.9 and 10 grades given out since 2017/18. And the further you go back the more 9.9 and 10s you will find. as to why, I’d theorize that as submissions were growing in the late 2010’s and when they grew exponentially during Covid that the time allotment given to a grader per modern book decreased or the quota on how many books they were expected to grade per hour increased. And in my opinion the time it would likely take a grader to reach the 9.8 threshold with a given book is dwarfed by the time it would take to determine if a 9.8 is a 9.9/10 So once the grader determined the book was a 9.8 they were done But that’s just my opinion. The precipitous drop in 9.9 and 10s however is a fact. I don’t want to derail this important thread so I’ll just leave it at that and you can have the last word if you wish