Hes Dead Jim

yup yup the vast majority of people who get sigs from anybody is to flip them right away or down the road.

why shouldnt the artist,  actor, actress, ballplayer, etc. get a piece too?

maybe they should give their sigs out on a consignment percentage basis

so 2 days after i made this thread the status changed from - Received at CCS -  to - Grading/Encapsulation/Imaging.

does the pressing not show up in the status updates?

On 4/3/2023 at 5:03 PM, Gaard said:

I hope to see three cows.

On 3/23/2023 at 5:54 PM, OtherEric said:

I think you're describing the nostalgic mad.  We can identify what you have if you provide a picture or scan.

probably, that sounds right. im not really sure where it is but i'll find it eventually. I recently found my horror stuff and some sci fi comics and some mad mags from the late 70's  - mid 80's so far

thanks

did they reprint the comic versions?

I know i have issue number 4, but i seem to remember it coming inside a later magazine and you had to tear it out and sometimes staple it together if you dont do it right

On 3/22/2023 at 8:20 AM, MattM CS said:

Hello @Hes Dead Jim,

Thank you for your message. Pressing is not currently backlogged. Our team has taken major strides to cut this turnaround time to what you see it now. These times posted on the site are updated weekly based on what we have in-house and how long it is taking submissions to be completed. What you are seeing on our posted turnaround times is our best estimate for when a new submission delivered to our office today will be completed. So you know, CCS adds 15 business days to the turnaround time for grading. This does not mean it will only take 15 business days for CCS to be completed. There is no set amount of time a submission will stay at one status or another. Let us know if you have any other questions. 

thanks

:)

I ask this because during the time that I submitted a comic until now the grading turn around time went from 145 days to 130 days to 120 days, back to 130 days and then went down regularly until it got to 49 days which is where it is now.

The pressing turn around time has not changed though so i didnt know if it was a lack of updates or if there was a glitch like whatever has affected the tracking / status page from time to time.

My comic was received by CGC on 02/15/23, so it is by no means excessivley overdue.

Thanks

the only way that 3rd party shippers can make money is to remove most or all of the packing, reship it, and pocket the difference. if it gets damaged or destroyed, insurance will cover it.

it all comes down to money as usual.

the seller got paid, the shipping company got paid and the buyer gets money back from insurance so supposedly a win win for all. the product itself is just along for the ride.

there was a 3rd party shipper in the midwest US that was notorious for this. cant remember the name of it now.

how sad that this is what shipping is these days, and way overpriced too lets not forget that.

a seed company wanted to charge me $6.00 us to ship a pack of seeds from colorado to new york. you can stick that in an envelope and put a stamp on it lol

Hey everyone.

In the video the guy says that the owner cracked the slab open before resubmitting it for pressing and re-grading. Why would anyone do that? Why nor just send it in for pressing already slabbed and let them do the work and bear the responsibility? I'm still a noob to this whole process but it seems to me that cracking a slab for any reason would void any responsibility for anyone other than the owner.

For all we know the current owner bought it, cracked the slab, cut out the coupon, and sent it in because he/she needed to show a loss for tax purposes or something like that. I'm not saying he/she did, there is just now way of knowing once the slab is cracked.

The other side of the coin would be, if the owner sent it in to cgc slabbed, would they still downgrade it or just bury it to hide their first alleged error?

Trading cards, coins and stamps are easy to verify because they only have 2 sides, but books and magazines and items with anything that cannot be seen will usually come down to a he said / she said.

On 3/4/2023 at 4:56 AM, Poekaymon said:

When it's preferable for a company to dump something in a landfill rather than give to children's hospitals or something, you might want to rethink your system.  Then again, there are many more such examples.

yup yup american farmers dumped milk after ww2. Soon after subsidies came. ultimately as much as it may suck corportions large and small have no obligation past their bottom line. i used to run claw machines about 30 years ago among other things. i gave a big box of plush to kids hospitals every couple of months. the coin op distributer used to have the workers smash everything before it went into the dumpster so nobody could make any money on it but them. you have to kind of want to do stuff one way of the other.

i read about newton rings all over this forum but in my personal non comic holder experience ive never seen a rainbow effect like that where moisture wasn't involved. that being said, a drop of moisture the size of a pin tip can spread way out in all directions when compressed between two pieces of clear plastic of any type. the bottom line in my opinion is that the vast majority of complaints posted on this forum should have easily been caught before being shipped out. id personally rather wait longer if it means more care will be taken. qc qc qc

yup spinning  and spinning

edit - just as i hit submit reply it refreshed and works now LOL

just sent mine in as my first submission. made the classic noob mistake of not taking scans before sending. will post picture when i get it back. i got the whole set. most of them arent worth grading but still ons of my favorite comics

since this was my first submission, i was so careful to avoid any classic noob mistakes. i spent a lot of time reading posts in  this forum, yet i still managed 2 big ones. i didn't scan my covers before sending, and I MISREAD THE ECNOMY TIER AS 45 DAYS INSTEAD OF 145 DAYS.

sigh

LOL