the pain of submitting a book you are convinced will grade high

[Flex Mentallo]

Johnny 545 gave me this idea. Post books you consigned to CGC which came back significantly lower in grade than you expected!

 

Here are a couple to illustrate the point:

 

Fully expected this radiant, glossy copy to come back as an 8.5, which would have been highest graded

 

[VintageComics]

Most books coming back lately are a disappointment.

 

They're tight as heck.

[Badger]

Wow! That is a gorgeous copy! Any idea why it was dinged so hard?

[Flex Mentallo]

If you can find a copy of this book without spine splits, you are a better man than me - or Mr Bedrock!

 

[Flex Mentallo]

One of the glossiest books in my collection, with a very light moisture ripple. Do we really need to be this hard on that fault?

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

On the other hand, this stringency can work to advantage. Structurally this is an 8.5, hammered down to 5.5 because of a small, light stain on the back cover. I bought it thus.

 

[vaultkeeper]

 

 

[vaultkeeper]

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

I also feel motivated to ask, why is it that technical grade is what we most value? Clearly we do, myself included. Yet I can think of extremely high grade books with distracting miscuts, bleed through, et al. And at the same time, I can think of beautiful, pleasurable books with slight faults that don't make the cut. Which would you prefer?

[G.A.tor]

always buy eye appeal....always...

 

[cheetah]

Johnny 545 gave me this idea. Post books you consigned to CGC which came back significantly lower in grade than you expected!

 

Here are a couple to illustrate the point:

 

Fully expected this radiant, glossy copy to come back as an 8.5, which would have been highest graded

 

 

I'd like to see back cover scans on all of these, too.

[Flex Mentallo]

 

I'd like to see back cover scans on all of these, too.

 

I dont have a back scan of the Tormented but it is unblemished and near white. No interior stains. Here is the MFPX

 

 

[vaultkeeper]

 

 

 

 

Back cover

 

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Wow! That is a gorgeous copy! Any idea why it was dinged so hard?

 

I really am baffled.

[adamstrange]

Wow! That is a gorgeous copy! Any idea why it was dinged so hard?

 

I really am baffled tormented

Fixed that for you

 

[Flex Mentallo]

Wow! That is a gorgeous copy! Any idea why it was dinged so hard?

 

I really am baffled tormented

Fixed that for you

 

Vida la tormenta.

[miraclemet]

I also feel motivated to ask, why is it that technical grade is what we most value? Clearly we do, myself included. Yet I can think of extremely high grade books with distracting miscuts, bleed through, et al. And at the same time, I can think of beautiful, pleasurable books with slight faults that don't make the cut. Which would you prefer?

 

I've owned many a 7.5 I preferred over a 9.0

 

internal defects (or back cover) leave you with a great higher grade presenting mid-grade book for a midgrade price?

[vaultkeeper]

 

 

 

 

Back cover

 

[Johnny545]

always buy eye appeal....always...

 

Eye appeal for days and a submission that pained me...though I understand and generally agree with the grade.

 

[Sqeggs]

I also feel motivated to ask, why is it that technical grade is what we most value? Clearly we do, myself included. Yet I can think of extremely high grade books with distracting miscuts, bleed through, et al. And at the same time, I can think of beautiful, pleasurable books with slight faults that don't make the cut. Which would you prefer?

 

It's the question of the CGC era. If you buy a book that you never intend to deslab that has high-grade front and back covers… but also has a torn page or a clipped coupon or even ( ) a missing centerfold, should you care? I suppose the answer is you probably do care, partly because that big number on the front does matter (even if you never intend to sell), as does the fine print listing the defect.

 

A large enough discount, of course, can cover a multitude of sins.