Is this Justified?

[14 of spades]

Spectacular Spider-Man 1 CGC 9.8 OWW sold on March 17.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=33819&item=2164481556&rd=1

 

Spectacular Spider-Man 1 CGC 9.8 W sold on March 16.

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=17085&item=2163770769&rd=1

 

Is an improvement from OWW to W really worth $167.50??

 

[The_Man_Of_Steel]

In a word "nope", somebody is smoking too much dope!

[Mushroom]

Not for me. I love my books being white but there is so little difference (especially when you can only view the book's front and back cover in a slab) that any premium I would pay would be minimal. I suppose it gets back to the term 'label whores'.

[UnrulyAppendage]

Nope, not for me. For someone it was but I hope it was for collectible purposes and not investment purposes.

[Comicdave]

It's more a case of the seller whose auction ended on Monday, St. Patrick's Day getting screwed because another Peter Parker #1 in CGC 9.8 ended the day before.

 

He should have checked to see if any other copies were currently on auction and waited until they ended before listing his. Plus it's generally not a good idea to have your auction end on a holiday, especially one that involves a lot of drinking.

[supapimp]

could after this one with WHITE pages, have a looksee:

 

LINK

 

[14 of spades]

i saw that auction too - but i don't care much for the oblique spine roll on that copy...

[supapimp]

are you looking for a copy? cos if you are, wait a couple years, there will be literally thousands in NM/MT 9.8 with WHITE pages.

[14 of spades]

i AM thinking of eventually upgrading my 9.6 OWW...

[ArAich]

I am wondering if it is more a case of catagory listing, drawing a higher end price....the white pager was listed in the Modern X-men catagory.....

[14 of spades]

do moderns get more searches?

[blowout]

I wouldn't pay more for a White pager over an OW-W purely because the page whiteness is factored into the grade. Therefore the White paged book must suffer from an additional defect elsewhere.

[supapimp]

page whiteness is factored into the grade

 

are you sure about that? who told you that lie?

[blowout]

yo, i think it was you

[14 of spades]

>page whiteness is factored into the grade

 

this was discussed on a thread in grading and restoration.

[PovertyRow]

(especially when you can only view the book's front and back cover in a slab)

 

Now THAT is right on the nose. Because one thing that gets my goat about CGC IS the unopenable slab. And who knows, after even 6 months in a too hot environment, how white thos epages are gonna be?

 

I will never understand how a company can factor in page whiteness for a grade without breaking their seal to actually VIEW the page whiteness. It is a catch-22 circular logic rotary trashcan and it REALLY ticks me off.

 

Actually what ticks me off more are the buyers who take this as gospel.

 

The ONLY way a CGCd book can truly maintain its grade is if CGC HELD THE BOOKS in a controlled environemnt. Instead the books are tossed back out into places that can literally hace + / - 100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures or more over a year. And we are expected to believe all is as it was? PAH.

[blowout]

The ONLY way a CGCd book can truly maintain its grade is if CGC HELD THE BOOKS in a controlled environemnt.

 

Very true.

All the more reason why CGC should be putting the grading date on the slab label so that the buyer knows how long the book has been in circulation/deterioration.

[PovertyRow]

All the more reason why CGC should be putting the grading date on the slab label so that the buyer knows how long the book has been in circulation/deterioration.

 

I couldn't agree more if you staked me over pointed cluster bamboo!

[dolphinsrwj]

is there anyway of telling the date a cgc was graded by the bar code?

[murph0]

Yes, if you're a member of Collector's Society you can log in and use their bar code look-up service.

 

Brian