chrisco37 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 They do mention the trimming in the description (not the title though). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 those trim jobs are ridiculous. they're eliminating dialogue! and it looks like they'll probably lose $100 on the GL 76. at least they're disclosing, but who says their buyers will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
october Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 those trim jobs are ridiculous. they're eliminating dialogue! and it looks like they'll probably lose $100 on the GL 76. at least they're disclosing, but who says their buyers will? That's true, but if someone can't spot the color touch and trimming on that GL 76 they either need corrective eye surgery or shouldn't be spending more than $5 on old comics. What a hatchet job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoore54 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 I just noticed this today. This is what they apparently did to a book they bought off me a few weeks ago. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-Vol-1-Super-High-Grade-Green-Lantern-Arrow-Stories-Begin-/251816126306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa1692762 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-VG-VG-Neal-Adams-Art-Green-Arrow-Bronze-Age-DC-Comics-/171645251697?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item27f6dab071 If you have any respect or love for comics you would never do business with these guys. WOW!!! They took like an 1/8 of an inch off the bottom! UFB!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviehuv66 Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 The photos of the comics are similar to another site called Silveragemintcomics.com. That individual also sold trimmed and restored comics. He passed them off as warehouse finds and never read. I believe that site is now closed. You're thinking of http://www.mintsilveragecomics.com/ Right? Yes! That's right. Thank you. He sold on Ebay as well at one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoore54 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 They do mention the trimming in the description (not the title though). Yes Chris. But unlike CGC or respectable sellers that just say trimmed...not which side, or sides, or all 3 sides which I think matters...especially the right side if they go so far as to remove dialogue/artwork as in the ASM 50. Nice of ninjasealed to post an actual recent proof that they in fact are doing this trimming, or much of it themselves. ( which we already knew...just perhaps not at what level. ) So here we have these miscreants in their Frankenbook Lab working over and destroying books day in and day out. Pretty pathetic but they're making a ton of dough and they could give a mess... My thinking is if they trim a book slightly and the tell-tale signs are far less obvious they post the book without citing the trimming. The thinking goes that newbs and the uneducated buyers about the seller will think "oh, he posts when books are trimmed and therefore he didn't say so for this book so it must not be trimmed." Can you say total person_who_is_obnoxiously_self-impressed bags?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoore54 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 I just noticed this today. This is what they apparently did to a book they bought off me a few weeks ago. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-Vol-1-Super-High-Grade-Green-Lantern-Arrow-Stories-Begin-/251816126306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa1692762 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-VG-VG-Neal-Adams-Art-Green-Arrow-Bronze-Age-DC-Comics-/171645251697?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item27f6dab071 If you have any respect or love for comics you would never do business with these guys. +1000!! I blew this up to ensure no one misses this. And hopefully, maybe get those who have a tendency to slide a little back and forth across the ethical line to think twice next time they're slobbering over one of their books... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlowUpTheMoon Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Nice of ninjasealed to post an actual recent proof that they in fact are doing this trimming, or much of it themselves. For the archive... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.X Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 The photos of the comics are similar to another site called Silveragemintcomics.com. That individual also sold trimmed and restored comics. He passed them off as warehouse finds and never read. I believe that site is now closed. You're thinking of http://www.mintsilveragecomics.com/ Right? Is that Hammer's site? Looks like it. Photoshopped and trimmed "gems". The angled photos on the wooden table reminds me of Hammer. It sure looks like his work. How many years has it been now that he just keeps coming up with all these high grade books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR.X Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 I just noticed this today. This is what they apparently did to a book they bought off me a few weeks ago. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-Vol-1-Super-High-Grade-Green-Lantern-Arrow-Stories-Begin-/251816126306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa1692762 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-VG-VG-Neal-Adams-Art-Green-Arrow-Bronze-Age-DC-Comics-/171645251697?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item27f6dab071 If you have any respect or love for comics you would never do business with these guys. WOW!!! They took like an 1/8 of an inch off the bottom! UFB!!! May as well take a half inch off. They still would call that high grade? What complete jag-offz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the blob Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 so the CT is on GL's hip? looks like it bled through to the other side given the last scan. so they just went in with a magic marker or something? reminds me of too many horribly CTd copies of ASM 28 I've seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlowUpTheMoon Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 so the CT is on GL's hip? looks like it bled through to the other side given the last scan. so they just went in with a magic marker or something? reminds me of too many horribly CTd copies of ASM 28 I've seen. The color touch is all over the place. Compare the before and after pictures I posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trmoore54 Posted February 11, 2015 Author Share Posted February 11, 2015 (edited) I just noticed this today. This is what they apparently did to a book they bought off me a few weeks ago. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-Vol-1-Super-High-Grade-Green-Lantern-Arrow-Stories-Begin-/251816126306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa1692762 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-VG-VG-Neal-Adams-Art-Green-Arrow-Bronze-Age-DC-Comics-/171645251697?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item27f6dab071 If you have any respect or love for comics you would never do business with these guys. It would help if people knew his real name. Of course the board police would probably balk at the idea of such information being made publicly available. Oh we know their real names all right... Start with a google search for Narbeh Harutunian https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=narbeh+harutunian Also a thread I started back in 2009 during the previous existence prior to reinventing themselves as all_things_comics... http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=3955785&fpart=1 Edited February 11, 2015 by trmoore54 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loukayza Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 But they have 100% Feedback, they must be awesome!! Just proof that some sellers truly do deserve negative feedback... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted February 11, 2015 Share Posted February 11, 2015 Wow, He turned a VG/VG- book into a "Super High Grade" book. What's the problem? Disgusting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapid08 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I just noticed this today. This is what they apparently did to a book they bought off me a few weeks ago. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-Vol-1-Super-High-Grade-Green-Lantern-Arrow-Stories-Begin-/251816126306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa1692762 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-VG-VG-Neal-Adams-Art-Green-Arrow-Bronze-Age-DC-Comics-/171645251697?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item27f6dab071 If you have any respect or love for comics you would never do business with these guys. That makes me sick. God damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjpb Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Grading companies shouldn't be handing out 9.4s to trimmed books, regardless of the label color. The book hasn't been restored, it's been doctored. They should treat all trimmed edges as if the missing edge had been chipped, torn, stained or otherwise damaged, so depending on the size of the trim, 7.0 would probably be about as good as it gets, and for a book like that X-Men #1 where it looks like at least an 1/8th of an inch was taken off all sides, a 5.0 at best. The GL is now an apparent 2.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheta42 Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I just noticed this today. This is what they apparently did to a book they bought off me a few weeks ago. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-Vol-1-Super-High-Grade-Green-Lantern-Arrow-Stories-Begin-/251816126306?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3aa1692762 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Green-Lantern-76-VG-VG-Neal-Adams-Art-Green-Arrow-Bronze-Age-DC-Comics-/171645251697?pt=US_Comic_Books&hash=item27f6dab071 If you have any respect or love for comics you would never do business with these guys. It would help if people knew his real name. Of course the board police would probably balk at the idea of such information being made publicly available. Oh we know their real names all right... Start with a google search for Narbeh Harutunian https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=narbeh+harutunian Also a thread I started back in 2009 during the previous existence prior to reinventing themselves as all_things_comics... http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=3955785&fpart=1 How do they still get away with this ! I am shocked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InvstmntComcSuply Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Grading companies shouldn't be handing out 9.4s to trimmed books, regardless of the label color. The book hasn't been restored, it's been doctored. They should treat all trimmed edges as if the missing edge had been chipped, torn, stained or otherwise damaged, so depending on the size of the trim, 7.0 would probably be about as good as it gets, and for a book like that X-Men #1 where it looks like at least an 1/8th of an inch was taken off all sides, a 5.0 at best. The GL is now an apparent 2.0. There appears to be 1/4" missing on the right edge of the GL76 along with 1/8" off the top and bottom. I understand buyer beware with that since it is raw, but how does all 3 edges trimmed and amatuer color touch qualify for "Slight" restoration on the graded (albeit from another company) X-men #1? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibou Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 Nice of ninjasealed to post an actual recent proof that they in fact are doing this trimming, or much of it themselves. For the archive... This is really sad. They bought the book for $200 and hope to get what for all their 'work'... ... $165?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
