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Still happening. Is this sitewide??

I have been collecting, buying, looking up GI JOE for almost 30 years and have never seen that. I am weary of it as well. Maybe reach out to FHE??

I had a magazine order arrive a few days ago and another one ship today. It was in Grading/QC for an abnormally long time after being charged (pre-screen), I kind of figured this might have something to do with it.

Yeah, I don't really get this stance. Cards have been and will be more heavily traded than comics for as long as I can ever remember. Besides the fact that cards are based on sports, just think of availability and logistics. Cards are much smaller and easier to send in the mail, house, collect, vault, etc. Cards are also sold just about everywhere that retail exists where comics do not have that. Anyways, I am involved in both hobbies and have been for over 30+ years each. I do agree that cards have had way more scandals and most people don't seem to care at all. Cards are altered every single day and still graded by the grading companies and outed all the time. Nothing ever changes and more and more money just keeps changing hands. I would suggest cards are at a too big to fail crossroads as so much money is involved and invested.

Last year was horrible. This year??? I can't believe how good the guest list was compared to the traffic in the room. Many of the tables are sold out, so someone has to be set up. Could be all sword and siding guys a la Wizard. I really don't know what to expect or if I can even go based on last year.

Wow. What kind of books??

Nothing to see here. Nice book!

Anyone have any tips on removing mailing labels from Magazines before sending in? I have done a fair amount of googling, but nothing seems definitive. Any advice? Thanks!

Yes, it was delivered a few days earlier. Second time in a week I have gotten 1 or 2 day service on Slow Boat Modern Pre-Screens. I still have many orders sitting from as far back as April (ccs) and July (just grading). These are new orders under the new pricing. All my other orders are pre price increase.

Another slow boat Pre-screen order for me: Received: 10/13/21 Shipped: 10/15/21

Just had a 25 book modern pre-screen get checked in today and go straight to g/e/i. I ran errands all day and just checked and it was marked as shipped for 10/11. I still have 4/7 stuff sitting at CCS in process and many other prescreens sitting in g/e/i from as old as late july. Weirdest thing I have ever seen. I was also charged today as well, so it is going out the door. 10/8/21 25 1,270 PRESCREEN - MODERN Shipped 10/11/21

All mine says Grading/QC before shipped. It goes GEI/GQC and then shipped. it has been that way since they flipped it over a few months ago or whatever. I don't get QCF.

I am talking about PSA.

They did not really ENFORCE this until recently and it was only on certain cards. They started hiring staff a few years ago to solely concentrate on upcharging people. Before it was on egregious examples like Jordan rcs and things of that ilk. I didn't get upcharges for years and years and now get them in almost every order. I am sure the new CGC investors are all over this as they have some familiarity with PSA and card grading.

This is what PSA (card grading) has been doing for years. I figured this was finally coming here. I hope it isn't widespread.

Yeah, I feel like a real insufficiently_thoughtful_person for some of the stuff I sold years ago. I was doing a pretty good job finding sealed copies of rarities and flipping them graded for 20-50x what I paid, but I can see the market has really matured in the last few years. I still have 8 or 9 long boxes of sealed games that are mostly not graded, but most of them are Xbox/Ps2 era and up with only 1 or 2 long boxes of older type stuff. I currently have a decent 20 game package at VGA with Assassins creed first print for Xbox and PS3, a few early CODs, Bioshock 1s, Halo GOTYs, Uncharted 1s, Dead Space 1s, Shadow of the Colossus, NBA Jam 1st for Genesis, Bill and Teds for NES and some other random stuff. I will have to go through and see what I have that needs to be graded. I hope CGC designs a good case and the value is there. That can only help alleviate all this backlog everywhere.

That is the craziest sale imo. I sold a VGA graded copy 5-6 years ago. IIRC it was an 85 or 90 and it probably sold for 2k or so. I will probably go jump off a bridge soon as a result. 10K I could believe, 100k+ is staggering.

VGA has been around waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer and seems to sell for more in most instances. Wata has the worst cases of any grading company I have ever seen in my life. You couldn't pay me to own one of those unless it was for resale. VGA (AFA) and Wata are both backed up to the moon like CGC, PSA, BGS and almost every other collectible grading company, so the markets probably have room for competition.

Daryl Morey used to work at a local movie theater near me when he was a young lad. A few of my good friends worked with him and say he was crazy smart.

I didn't see this posted anywhere else yet. Please remove if duplicate. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/blackstone-to-acquire-certified-collectibles-group-271625149366

. I must have just missed those. I saw the 150s, xmen 1s and crisis books he had. Good work.

Agreed. Fake news/sources and total garbage site.

Same weekend as Motor City Comic Con and Indiana Comic Con. Totally idiotic.

Ok, well people asked why it sold for more and I gave you an explanation. You can believe it or not.

That is not true. It legit has a darker cover on some of them. I have seen it myself. I can't account for every seller, but don't spread misinformation. I personally don't think it should sell for any sort of premium.