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Tom Snow

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    grader notes

    in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues

    Posted · Edited by Tom Snow

    If a grader sees a flaw making the book less than 9.8, the paying customer should get that feedback. They should at least have a standard list (water damage, slight spine stress line, fingerprint, etc.) that the grader could quickly electronically check which then populates to the notes. 
     

    I don’t want to sound like an ungrateful person_who_is_obnoxiously_self-impressed but I just got 25 back and based on past experiences and checking these books, upwards of 20 should have been 9.8s but they’re 14 9.6s and 4 9.4s. It’s not the spine or corners so what is it CGC?  Color rub?  Fingerprints my 3rd party presser didn’t clean?  No notes on anything. I need to know because this is a swing in value of more than a few hundreds of dollars. 

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    Market Equilibrium Reached

    in CGC Trading Cards General Discussion

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    On 9/26/2021 at 7:58 PM, PokemanDude90 said:

    Do you understand supply and demand? People will stop submitting cards if a majority of what they send in nets a loss. 

    It's the same principle that allows grading companies to raise prices when the market is good.

    If you don't understand this concept then don't bother talking about this subject.

    And you understand that if CGC just starts handing out 9s to cards that should be 8.5s they’ll lose credibility and then 9s won’t be worth the cost of grading and it will probably cause all CGC graded cards to drop in value. Their job is not to artificially assign grades to cards/comics.  People won’t stand nor pay for that