WOW! would you buy this?

[tinynascarfan-migration]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CGC-9-8-Submariner-The-Initiative-1-of-6-/321150572109?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item4ac610d64d

 

somebody will, and they will be greatly disappointed!

[Beige]

Its $5..... or are you assuming everyone will think its already slabbed.

TBH - I have no idea what the problem is here?

[Bosco685]

This is just another Ebay search engine play to attract attention.

 

There was a book that sold last night listed as "CGC 9.6, but looks CGC 9.8". All it was missing was "CGC it!".

 

[Ryan.]

I don't understand where I'm supposed to be directing my exasperation.

 

 

 

[Bosco685]

I don't understand where I'm supposed to be directing my exasperation.

 

 

 

 

Read the text in the listing.

 

This is a CGC 9.8 copy of Sub Mariner the initiative part 1 of 6. I Brand mint condition new..no reserve .. enjoy..

 

But it is $5. So ...

 

[vaillant]

[tinynascarfan-migration]

 

 

 

This is a CGC 9.8 copy of Sub Mariner the initiative part 1 of 6. I Brand mint condition new..no reserve .. enjoy..

 

 

to me that infers that this is a graded 9.8 copy, from a seller with 0 feedback.

 

a member since March, that all of a sudden has put up 25 different items for sale.

 

maybe legit, maybe not, but for a novice collector that thinks they gonna pick up a slabbed 9.8 for 5 bucks plus 2.99 shipping, they gonna be disappointed.

[tinynascarfan-migration]

This is just another Ebay search engine play to attract attention.

 

There was a book that sold last night listed as "CGC 9.6, but looks CGC 9.8". All it was missing was "CGC it!".

 

 

Ive come very close myself to buying books like that, thinking they were graded when I first saw the listing.

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[Speedy-D]

A buyer may well be disappointed, true. In the annals of eBay scammage though, I don't think this will rank very close to the top.

[Ryan.]

So some buyers may or may not get duped into spending $5 on a $4 book. I'll save my outrage for when I finally see Man of Steel.

[Bosco685]

So some buyers may or may not get duped into spending $5 on a $4 book. I'll save my outrage for when I finally see Man of Steel.

 

 

Max Landis did.

 

[shadroch]

I think its time that CGC steps up and starts protecting its brand.

Coke spends a fortune making sure that people serve coke, not a generic cola when they order a coke. So do most other dominant brands. Time for CGC to do so.

Can you picture someone selling a pair of cheap jeans on ebay and calling them Levi's?

[zosocane]

I think the question here is whether this is fraud in the inducement. It says "CGC 9.8" but the photograph just shows an unslabbed book and 5 copies thereof are available. Presumably the book is raw/unslabbed.

[Aweandlorder]

I think its time that CGC steps up and starts protecting its brand.

Coke spends a fortune making sure that people serve coke, not a generic cola when they order a coke. So do most other dominant brands. Time for CGC to do so.

Can you picture someone selling a pair of cheap jeans on ebay and calling them Levi's?

 

You should start a thread with this very topic

[Dr. Balls]

I think its time that CGC steps up and starts protecting its brand.

Coke spends a fortune making sure that people serve coke, not a generic cola when they order a coke. So do most other dominant brands. Time for CGC to do so.

Can you picture someone selling a pair of cheap jeans on ebay and calling them Levi's?

 

You should start a thread with this very topic

 

I agree. People play fast and loose with the CGC term, I would love to see them flex a little bit and reigning things in. I mean, everyone here pays a premium to purchase a CGC graded comic, I would imagine that the perserverence of that premium requires the company to protect it's image.

[dupont2005]

They shouldn't call it a "CGC 9.8" unless it's been graded by CGC. Right now it's a 9.8 only according to the seller. If a sellers word was as good as CGC's, then we would have no use for CGC.