Croatbag

He did not mention those, but I just think he isn't aware of them. The tear seal spots that you mention I can see where maybe it might be, but I've never seen a tear seal in person so can't say anything for sure. As for the color touch now that you mention it I notice some, coming diagonally out of the middle of the mans hat is the biggest right?

Good transaction. Easy to deal with and shipped timely and securely.

I knew it, 35 years of chew experience.

Lol, except that guy had no hand in his own fate.....I did

congrats @grendelbo!

Also don't get how that Detective was the same score as the last one, I had them side by side and one was clearly better looking.

Haha really blew it that round, left the door open for sure. My rat/insect chew experience was not at a high enough level.

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Didn't realize there was a separate thread for the signup. As for the other part, I see a detailed sheet on our scores....I meant to see the grading scores people actually guessed.

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I don't get the need though, they are basing it on the insured $ amount....so if you wanted say 50K of coverage, wouldn't that be the same cost to insure 50K worth of value whether its really 50K worth of comics or a $1 book you are claiming is worth 50K.......I don't really think the company cares about the items per say, just their potential outstanding coverage liability which is kind of something you can decide on.

I'm a noob to this, can you explain how the scoring works? I don't see an explanation on the first post......also would be interesting to see the actual grades people gave, and if public shaming is a fear then could just release them with no name attached, would be interesting to see the distribution.

dammit, was debating with the 1 or 1.5 on this one. Coin flip ruined my glory.

you think that even when the front inside cover shows all those tears still? I know it's angled, but if they left all the tears showing what did the trimming do?

Hello, I am considering buying a Batman book, the seller being a kind person, offered up that he believed it may be trimmed, but he said only the interior pages. He gave me pictures which I will put in here. On the inside one you can see the cover and all the little rips on it which would lead me to believe the cover itself is not trimmed. I have almost no experience in trimmed books so this is just me spit balling mostly and wanted to get some other feedback. First, my understanding of trimming was that it generally involved the covers...either just the covers, or if its the whole book would include the covers as well. Not sure what would be gained by just trimming the interior pages. I guess this is a two fold questions, first, if indeed only the interior pages were trimmed, would this get grades the same as if the cover is trimmed and therefore not get a blue label? Second, looking at the pics and just the overall weirdness (at least to me) of only interior pages being trimmed, do you think the pages have been trimmed? I see that there is an angle/slope to the pages getting wider on the outside edge towards the bottom, but seems like that could just be a miscut as well. This was very rambling, totally stream of consciousness writing, thanks for bearing it and making it to the end appreciate it.

They also mentioned a medium and a large crease (not sure what actual sizes those are) but I have trouble seeing them through the slab, but medium and large size creases are not nothing either when compounded with all that other stuff. Maybe it's one of those good from far, far from good deals and those creases show more up close. With all that said I do think it looks better than almost every 3.5 I've ever seen.

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Is the census always artificially high? I'm not including raws that are still floating around waiting to be graded, but rather people who crack slabs and resubmit. When this is done unless the person were to somehow report it to take off the census, I assume that the book would end up as 2 entries in the census? True or false?

Take

Hello, I have 2 questions. First scenario is a slab gets shattered so bad with sharp edges that I have to take the inner unsealed well out in order to protect the book. Since it is still in the sealed inner well with the grade, can I just reholder this or does the book need to go back and get regraded? I'm guessing the latter since while the book is sealed, the grade paper is not and can be removed so I imagine people could do some trickery there (which begs the question why not seal that as well) If I have a book where someone wrote their name on the splash page, not an autograph just whoever owned the book, I know that is probably a little flaw, but I just want to make sure that would still qualify for a Blue Label and not a Green label. Thanks in advance for the answers.

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take - just kidding

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