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My first submission goes out tomorrow! Jan 30. It's back!

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Bill1

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Being new, I may not understand how to do all this, but the modern tier is limited to $200 or less-- I am not sure who's determining the values, but the Bone is definitely out, the two Damsels are the one's that are limited to 25 copies only, and the X-Files just happened to be in the right box and I thought it was a nice copy. I am also going to try and not submit anything that has more than 100 9.8's in the census. Whether I will do more or not, I don't know. It so far seems to be a bit of trouble, and I don't mind getting them off E-bay if I really want them. Perhaps the pride of ownership will shine through when I get these 4 back and realize I bought them new and sent them in on my own, and make me want to do it 23,000 more times!

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The "free" coupons are not really free. They cost collectively $86 (or $21.50 per coupon), which is the difference betwen the annual $125 premium membership fee that yields the "free" coupons and the $39 Associate membership fee level we would all otherwise fall into. Another way to look at it is that we're Associate members, and some of us took advantage of the "4-coupons-for-$86-special." Still, a very good special! At $21.50 a clip, that's more than the $18 modern tier -- but considerably less than the $35 economy tier and $60 standard tier.

 

So to maximize value off the four individual $21.50 grading coupons, you want the equivalent of a service tier that is well above $21.50 -- subject to the limitation that the service tier you pick is for books with individual values of $1,000 or less.

 

With those parameters, I would say that anyone that has the 4 grading coupons should be submitting books that you would otherwise submit under the $60-per-book "Standard" service tier. This generally translates to pre-1980 books valued at more than $300 but less than $1,000 (the standard service limit, which is also the value limit-per-book on the Collectors Society Standard coupons).

 

Of course, if you have moderns that value more than $200 but less than $1,000, you can't use the $18 modern tier anyway and you would fall into the economy or standard, so use the coupons!

 

 

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Being new, I may not understand how to do all this, but the modern tier is limited to $200 or less-- I am not sure who's determining the values, but the Bone is definitely out, the two Damsels are the one's that are limited to 25 copies only, and the X-Files just happened to be in the right box and I thought it was a nice copy. I am also going to try and not submit anything that has more than 100 9.8's in the census. Whether I will do more or not, I don't know. It so far seems to be a bit of trouble, and I don't mind getting them off E-bay if I really want them. Perhaps the pride of ownership will shine through when I get these 4 back and realize I bought them new and sent them in on my own, and make me want to do it 23,000 more times!

 

It wouldn't be an issue to submit all 4 of them under the modern tier - I've subbed 4 Bone #1s that way :thumbsup:

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OK, UPS overnight yesterday, arrived this morning at CGC at 10:28, left at 'dock' and signed for by good old 'Sweeney'! So, now we will see how long from delivery to CGC before it shows up as 'received-verified'. Any guesses?

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