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How well does Metropolis grade?

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Rickdogg

Rickdogg

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Well you don't know me so don't make up your stupid little theories and question my grading. Have you ever dealt with me? NO. I received 67 raw books from Drbanner last week and both of us practically agreed on the grade for the whole lot.

 

Do I have to post all of the 67 scans to prove my point? NO! For what? insufficiently_thoughtful_person

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Rickdogg

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Yes, I can question someone else's grading standards if I am their customer. That's why there is a return policy in place because they have to realize that they do mess up from time to time. No big deal to me...send it back...give me a refund...and we're done.

 

I even called Metropolis today to give them a heads up. They asked me why I graded some of the TOD's so low.

 

I said for example, "one of them has 8 spine breaks with 4 breaking color."

 

The customer service rep immediately yelled, "NOW THAT IS NOT NM! Return it and we will gladly refund your money"

 

No blood no foul.

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originalisbest

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In this particular case it was a "holy grail" book for me, a Mysterious Adventures #21. It is true I did NOT agree with the grade - but it is ALSO true that I was treated with every courtesy in returning the book, so no problem there. Maybe I was particularly annoyed with it at the time, because I had had such a dickens (what the **** does that mean anyway) of a time finding that book.

 

But the search continued and, I ended up getting the River City copy of that ish, a nice NM-. So all is well.

 

And naturally, since then I've seen the book about 4-5 times! tongue.gif Nothing approaching mine's condition, tho. grin.gif

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Rickdogg

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Cool did it smell good? wink.gif

 

Dude, I just got home from a long day. I didn't mean to pounce on you. I just don't appreciate it when someone has the nerve to make accusations of how I grade when they don't know me or what the situation was. Trust me if I sold those TOD's to you as NM, you'd probably want to punch me out tongue.gif

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originalisbest

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I agree, but in all honesty I think it was an above board deal, where the book was never maybe taken out of its mylar - it looked OK from the front. I'll just never forget my reaction when I carefully took it out of its mylar and saw the back! shocked.gif

 

Anyway, it bears repeating I was able to return it no prob. I don't want to come across as having a Metropolis problem, as I really have none per se. I don't think there's a dealer I've ordered from more than a few times where I never returned at least SOMETHING. And I don't buy all that many books (compared to others, IMO.)

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