SHOCKING CGC 9.8

[drdonaldblake]

OK, not to slam cgc becos they do a great job most of the time (considering the number of books they grade) but check this out

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dII?ViewItem&item=2167463580&category=32726

 

upper left corner crease, upper right corner crease and 2 big color breaking stress lines, ive seen cgc 9.0's far nicer

 

avengers 126 cgc 9.8

[14 of spades]

hard to tell - but they might be scratches on the CGC case (?)

[drdonaldblake]

no i dont think so

 

they really look like color breakign creases

[delekkerste]

That is disturbing...I've bought a couple of recently-graded books which also suffer from uncharacteristically loose grading. I hope this is not a trend that is developing.

 

Gene

[drdonaldblake]

yeah, disturbing, esp with those easy to spot defects on a black cover disturbing

 

maybe one of the graders was hungover, after all they are human too

 

can u scan your examples of loose cgc grading?

[aardvark88]

Would say current batch of bronze Marvels generously graded by Cgc compared to 6 months ago when they seemed to grade too tight. Bronze Marvels I thought would be 9.2, came back 9.0 6 months ago. Now bronze I graded 8.0, come back 9.0.

[Bronty]

Maybe the problem is you odin

[greggy]

Agreed...Al needs to look at his books in bright light!

[Bonds25]

Link won't work.

[greggy]

Here's the right link.

 

Link

[COI]

I would have picked this up if it were properly graded. I love bronze Avengers. Too bad.

[greggy]

Too bad.

 

So...what do you think happened to this book? Although I have gotten gift grades by CGC, my previous 9.8s had nothing as obvious as those 2 spine breaks and the corner creases! Uggh!

[COI]

I dunno dude.......but if this is what currently passes for 9.8, I've got a truck load of books to send in!

[greggy]

Well, I'm getting back 6 of them back from CGC and there are no obvious structural problems like the Avengers. We could argue about the centering on mine but the structure is solid!

[COI]

Here's what a 9.8 black cover should look like. Even though the scan is smaller, it looks as if there isn't one flaw in the black areas:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2167104110

[greggy]

Yep, that one looks great. I have a very sharp Tower of Shadows 1 coming back as a 9.8 so I'll post it when I pick it up next week!

 

But...dammit...where's my Vault books? A collector in town got his a couple of days ago!

[COI]

Holy [!@#%^&^], you still haven't recieved your vault books? I would say that maybe it's a West Coast thing, but if someone in your area recieved then that's a little screwed up. Have you tried contacting this "bloke"?

 

BTW, the packing was pretty flimsy on mine, but luckily there was no damage.

[greggy]

I'm sure he sent it but customs like to look at my books a lot! Sometimes they hold it for way too long! I pick up lots of books from the Post Office so I will drop by and have them do a search for me. I'm not worried because I've received books from California over a month after it was sent. My friend in town said that his books were sent on the 23rd. Yep, I'm patient!

[diablo508]

-- Here's what a 9.8 black cover should look like. Even though the scan is smaller, it looks as if there isn't one flaw in the black areas --

 

 

I'd have to disagree there also, CGC is being to nice again....seems they lower there standards the older a book is...not sure why that is, ya really can't call them "standards"...but anywho.....that Iron Man #150, I count 3 spine cracks and that's just glancing at it on the Ebay page....plus I thought I saw a small scuff mark by the spine (close to Iron Man waist)....even if these are the only flaws, I really don't see how this would grade a 9.8?...anyone else see this?