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Target may be a bad example, but I don't think sideshow is. What's the difference between doing 10 vs 100? Personally I don't see any. My Comic Shop is a different animal than most CGC dealers because of their size. They either list the individual cert number or put stock image so they are covering both bases and I totally agree with you that putting "actual product not pictured" is a good idea. Like I mentioned, personally we do that...per my original post "we clearly state in the details of every listing that we normally have multiple items and that the certification number can be different and that signature color and/or placement may be different in the case of Signature Series books." But I stand by my original notion: a brand new modern CGC 9.8 is a brand new modern CGC 9.8 regardless of cert number or what it looks like and having a book come in damaged is different. Send me a PM with the details of this seller and I'll let you know if it's someone we personally know.

Not exactly how it works. It's still supply and demand so it's different for each individual book based on supply (how many are submitted, how well the print run prints, etc) and demand (title, first appearance, quality of art, etc).

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No way...I'd say that directly off the printer you might have a 50/50 shot at a 9.8. But then they get touched and put into boxes. Then they get shipped to Campbell (or any other shop doing a variant). Then they are pulled out of the boxes. At that point I would say less than 25% of books a 9.8 at best unless they are cardstock covers. And that's which a good print run. With Marvel, the amount of ink loss on back covers is staggering and once you put a new book into a bag and board and pull it out, you see enough ink loss to drop a book in grade. I have seen some print runs where I have looked through hundreds of books to find just a couple 9.8 candidates due to printing issues that are not sever enough to be considered "damaged"...they just aren't 9.8s. Publishers don't care about the grade of books that get sent out....even if the best that a whole print run would grade would be a 9.6. If they are all NM- or better they did their job. Typically anything "NEW" whether bought from a shop or bought online would be 9.2 or better and most online retailers wouldn't ship out anything less than a 9.2 unless they made note of condition. If someone complains that they got a book that was only a 9.2, I'd immediately block them from ever buying from me because they are going to be more trouble than the sale is worth (and believe me...I've done it). I tell customers that if you want ONLY 9.8s, don't buy sight unseen and just buy already graded copies even if that means you pay a premium (which you should) because of the grade.

I don't think it's laziness as my previous post says. It's simply how much time should be put into multiple copies of the same item. Like I said...Target doesn't list individual pictures for anything they sell. People might say that collectibles are different, but when they are new copies I disagree. Individually hand-painted statues from Sideshow are collectibles...they don't put up multiple listings when they sell their items...that's the way I look at it.

So this thread got derailed big time...time to get back on track. As a CGC dealer myself, when we do a book, we RARELY do just one copy. We have done 20+ of some books. So lets say that we have 5 copies of Amazing Spider-Man #14 JSC cover A (which we did). We put a listing up showing 5 copies. We don't do 5 individual listings with 5 pictures of 5 different books. So easy enough...buyer knows we have 5 copies. We clearly state in the details of every listing that we normally have multiple items and that the certification number can be different and that signature color and/or placement may be different in the case of Signature Series books. Hell...this original post might be about some of our items. So here's some things to think about. When we have a listing with multiple items and the first book sells, we don't pull that individual book and then change the picture. Hell sometimes 5 copies sell in 24 hours...it's logistically impossible to do that. As for auctions, when you have 5 book that are buy it now and you decide to throw one up on auction, ebay makes a duplicate listing just in auction form, removes one from your buy-it-now listing, and now you have two listings with the same picture. The following week we might send another to auction...that's a third listing with the same image. Sometimes if we get 5 copies of a book (like we just did with Uncanny X-Men #1 campbell variants, we don't list them as a buy-it now at all. We do an auction that starts today. We click on "sell a similar item" and make another posting that starts next Sunday, then do that two more times till we have 4 listings. All the exact same with the same picture. When dealing with modern 9.8s there is no need to do multiple listings showing each individual book in my opinion. To say that a 9.8 isn't a 9.8 or that some 9.8s look better than another, that's fine but I dont agree to that. As a dealer, I don't have time for that and I may lose a sale as that person may decide to deal with someone else that only has one copy and it's the exact book. I have to weigh the time I put into something like that and determine if it's worth it or not...and for modern 9.8s I don't think it is. When dealing with older books or lower graded books I get it. I do think some 6.0s look better than other 6.0s but I don't think the difference between two 9.8s makes a difference. That's just my opinion of course and to each their own. As for getting a book back that looks like it is damaged in shipping with the cover almost coming off...that's either A) a shipping damage issue and no problem, send it back or B) an unethical seller. Personally I believe it's much more likely option A. Especially if the seller has a bunch of listings that are duplicates (unless they have LOTS of damages and are trying to pawn them off but I thinks thats HIGHLY unlikely). So all that being said...if you don't like a dealer that sells multiple copies of a book, don't buy from that dealer. But that's like going to Target.com and buying a t-shirt (you know you aren't going to get the exact t-shirt in the photo). When dealing with larger comic dealers with multiple copies of books you have to look at it that way.

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Again...if a book already has the label then they sold it with permission and you should be able to maintain your purchase in perpetuity.

Don't know if I told you but he laughed at wanting this on the book. :-)

Shouldn't matter. I can understand about labels going forward, but if I've already purchased the custom label I should be able to have that label on that book in perpetuity IMO.

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Keystone is still a "maybe" for us now.

As promised...a new video on a way to eliminate Newton Rings using compressed air. Using the cardboard insert was fine for most books but some were SOOO tight that they were leaving the micro scratches. This seems to help quite a bit..as you can see I had a LOT of NR on the book I used in the video. Since doing the video I've done a few more and the NR are completely gone on some of them. The tighter the slab the more you have to use...and you do need to angle the blast a bit on the sides. PSA - DO NOT SPRAY THE AIR IN UPSIDE DOWN - As we all know when you turn a can of compressed air upside down you do get super-cooled air that has moisture in it. Hope this helps some of you!!

Could have gotten the top 4 for you in the last 8 months. Saw 1 and 4 at keystone, 3 at Alamo, and 2 at Comicpalooza (should have a signing with her late this year as well).

Hell no....we aren't doing it. Just giving people the knowledge on how to do it themselves.

We actually are doing a new video and yes...we found a way to remove NR without scratches. Waiting for a book with a decent amount of NR to do the video on.

Let's see the results when you try what I showed in the video.

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