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[Jeffro.]

Please tell me that's not real

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Please tell me that's not real

 

It's a parody from Chris Weston .

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[chrisco37]

I'm a little surprised that there were so many votes for 2002. Seems like less than that. Guess some of them still lurk but don't post.

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What brought you to these boards back in '02?

 

How did you hear about them?

[chrisco37]

Absolute and total dumb luck.

 

Long story, short....I just got back into comics and decided I'd try and buy some books I could never afford in my youth. I had no idea where to start, so I checked eBay. Came across a listing that contained a CGC book and said WTF is that?

 

I went to the CGC website to see what it was all about and the concept intrigued me. Saw they had a message board and, for some reason that I'll never really know, I signed up. It was the first message board I had ever signed up on, and the only one I still check out.

 

 

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I started seeing CGC books on eBay and went to their website to find out cost information. I didn't notice that they had a message board at the time.

 

It wasn't until I wanted to know how CGC grading differed from Overstreet that I found the message boards through a search engine. Then I lurked for years before I signed up.

[Jeffro.]

I remember hearing about CGC back when they started up. There were articles in magazines and I was involved in some rather spirited discussions on the old Marvel.com boards.

For some reason I didn't find the message board until 2005.

[chrisco37]

Like I said, it was total dumb luck that I even found the boards, let alone signed up for them. I must've been bored at work that day or something.

 

I did, however, end up buying that first CGC book I ran across. A DD#158 in 9.0.

 

When I rec'd the book, I couldn't figure out why a book that looked so perfect got "only" a 9.0. I couldn't imagine what a 9.4 or 9.6 must look like.

 

Of course, this was back when turnaround times were correct and you used to get 3 free Express coupons with your membership.