WERE THE PAC COAST BOOKS SOLD "TOO CHEAP"??!!!!!!!

[Rip]

Honestly Robert's grading isn't that bad.

But between you and me, he's a little softer on his own books.

 

[tth2]

Sorry, I guess I wasn't very clear. I actually think he's a very good grader, and generally have no doubts that the raw book will be pretty much as advertised.

[sfilosa]

Well, I bought about 10-15 pedigree books (mostly White Mountain and Circle 8) from PCE about 8 years ago, and the grading is pretty bad. He actually told me that his inventory #'s form 1-6000 were graded looser than the numbers after that. Almost every pedigree book was graded between NM- and NM+ and only two or three would get that grade from CGC.

 

PCE did what almost all other dealers did with Pedigree books. Ignore structural flaws and give lots of credit for nice pages, gloss and colors. I'm not saying that they are totally incorrect, but obviously, CGC grades very tight on structural flaws.