CGC Green Eggs Grading Contest Round 5

[jimbo_707]

I'm getting a little irritated with all these gift-graded books! I guess for future rounds I'm going to have to grade them accurately and then go two grades up to match the CGC grades.

[sckao]

 

Results are up for ROUND 5!

 

http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=6684734#Post6684734

 

 

[Hibou]

Yay.

 

Another 2 books undergraded.

[trmoore54]

I got body-slammed! Gotta go back and re-study these 2...undergraded both by 2 full grades...

 

This time Andy's response to my submitted grades was unfortunately more than accurate...

[Point Five]

I hear you! I got killed on the Journey Into Mystery. The back cover staining looked too ugly to me to go past 6.0/6.5. I guess it's one of those this-is-foxing-so-it-doesn't-really-count stains?

 

 

[frozentundraguy]

I got body-slammed! Gotta go back and re-study these 2...undergraded both by 2 full grades...

 

This time Andy's response to my submitted grades was unfortunately more than accurate...

 

I had the opposite problem, over grading them by enough to earn a net ZERO.

[1Cool]

I hear you! I got killed on the Journey Into Mystery. The back cover staining looked too ugly to me to go past 6.0/6.5. I guess it's one of those this-is-foxing-so-it-doesn't-really-count stains?

 

+1. The staining was to bad to be above FN. I went 5.5 and 8.0. I thought CGC hammered staining so dropped the book a grade for it.

[jimbo_707]

I hear you! I got killed on the Journey Into Mystery. The back cover staining looked too ugly to me to go past 6.0/6.5. I guess it's one of those this-is-foxing-so-it-doesn't-really-count stains?

 

+1. The staining was to bad to be above FN. I went 5.5 and 8.0. I thought CGC hammered staining so dropped the book a grade for it.

 

I'm with you more or less - I went 5.5 and 7.5. I think my grading is probably pretty close to Overstreet grading from the late 80s/early 90s, which is when I learned to grade. Apparently there's been some grade inflation since then.

[miraclemet]

I hear you! I got killed on the Journey Into Mystery. The back cover staining looked too ugly to me to go past 6.0/6.5. I guess it's one of those this-is-foxing-so-it-doesn't-really-count stains?

 

+1. The staining was to bad to be above FN. I went 5.5 and 8.0. I thought CGC hammered staining so dropped the book a grade for it.

 

I'm with you more or less - I went 5.5 and 7.5. I think my grading is probably pretty close to Overstreet grading from the late 80s/early 90s, which is when I learned to grade. Apparently there's been some grade inflation since then.

 

jimbo we had the exact same grades... and I way over penalized those books for their back cover staining/discoloration...

 

oh well onto the next round!