is comic grading subjective?

[seanfingh]

The only objective reality is that reality is completely subjective.

 

 

 

Discuss.

 

Contemplate your navel somewhere else, Hydroponic Lad.

[THE_BEYONDER]

Hydro

[slym2none]

I guess I need to get out my old "eBay NM" pic again - this will be it's third showing in less than 3 weeks (as that's how long I've been here)

 

 

 

 

-slym

[whisp]

I guess I need to get out my old "eBay NM" pic again - this will be it's third showing in less than 3 weeks (as that's how long I've been here)

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

 

Looks NM to me.

[RockMyAmadeus]

I guess I need to get out my old "eBay NM" pic again - this will be it's third showing in less than 3 weeks (as that's how long I've been here)

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

See, what the problem is with that book is that it's not Near Mint.

 

It's Near MintS.

 

Totally different thing.

[slym2none]

It is! It's "eBay NM!"

 

 

 

 

-slym

[slym2none]

When you abbreviate it, no one knows if NM means Near Mint or near mints.....

 

 

 

 

-slym

[COI]

Let's continue to hammer this joke into the ground for 50 more pages.

[DrWatson]

The only objective reality is that reality is completely subjective.

 

 

 

Discuss.

 

Cultivate your navel somewhere else, Hydroponic Lad.

Fixed! (thumbs u

[RockMyAmadeus]

Let's continue to hammer this joke into the ground for 50 more pages.

 

Ok. So this one day, I was talking to this guy about some comics I bought on eBay, and I said "yeah, that seller totally said they were NM, but then I said no way, those books have been ridden hard and put away wet, and he said no, they're in perfect condition, NEAR MINT! and I said yeah, if there was a box of Altoids next to the books when you took the picture, and he said......

[RockMyAmadeus]

When you abbreviate it, no one knows if NM means Near Mint or near mints.....

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

Well, then, you should have asked what "NM" meant, shouldn't you....?

 

[COI]

When you abbreviate it, no one knows if NM means Near Mint or near mints.....

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

Well, then, you should have asked what "NM" meant, shouldn't you....?

 

 

But the term "near" is too subjective. There's a store "near" my place that sells mints; several actually. So I'm "near" lots of mints, and so is any book that I own. So I can take a pic of a beat up Spidey that I own and still claim that it's NM, even if those mints aren't visible in the pic.

[RockMyAmadeus]

When you abbreviate it, no one knows if NM means Near Mint or near mints.....

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

Well, then, you should have asked what "NM" meant, shouldn't you....?

 

 

But the term "near" is too subjective. There's a store "near" my place that sells mints; several actually. So I'm "near" lots of mints, and so is any book that I own. So I can take a pic of a beat up Spidey that I own and still claim that it's NM, even if those mints aren't visible in the pic.

 

See? Hammering a joke to death is FUN!

[PhiGam-migration]

 

anyone feel differently?

 

Yes, it's subjective.

 

explain why you think it is subjective.

[thehumantorch]

See? Hammering a joke to death is FUN!

 

That is certainly a subjective statement.

[slym2none]

When you abbreviate it, no one knows if NM means Near Mint or near mints.....

 

 

 

 

-slym

 

Well, then, you should have asked what "NM" meant, shouldn't you....?

 

 

No.

 

 

 

-slym ( )