Ewoks #2 (Scanned) 1 1

[Bronxwarrior]

I've recently had the misfortune to get this through the mail this morning, it's not what you would call a key issue, but I like collecting books of this nature. This was sold to me as a near mint (Though he didn't actually specify either NM- NM or NM+) even though it obviously is not, I was wondering if you fine folks could tell me how far off this grading actually is. 

Don't pull any punches, how badly was I ripped off? 

Edited August 17, 2020 by Bronxwarrior

[Deadpoolica]

6.0...nowhere near nm my friend 

[Bronxwarrior]

2 hours ago, Deadpoolica said:

6.0...nowhere near nm my friend 

Ouch, that's even lower than I expected!
Thanks for the quick reply! 

[Qalyar]

Maybe, maybe a 6.5. The back cover is awful. There's wear along the entire bottom edge, a whole constellation of spine stress and damage at upper left. The front looks better in the scan but I suspect the scan is hiding spine stress. It can't hide the crease at lower right and... whatever is going on at top left. If there's actually missing paper associated with that defect, we're back down to the 6.0 range. I can't decide if there's some discoloration at the left margin of the UPC, while we're at it.

If you paid more than about $8-9 for this book in this grade, you overpaid.

I love the unique challenges of collecting stuff that isn't the hot market books, but this misgrade isn't really excusable. Willing to name and shame the seller here?

[Bronxwarrior]

16 minutes ago, Qalyar said:

Maybe, maybe a 6.5. The back cover is awful. There's wear along the entire bottom edge, a whole constellation of spine stress and damage at upper left. The front looks better in the scan but I suspect the scan is hiding spine stress. It can't hide the crease at lower right and... whatever is going on at top left. If there's actually missing paper associated with that defect, we're back down to the 6.0 range. I can't decide if there's some discoloration at the left margin of the UPC, while we're at it.

If you paid more than about $8-9 for this book in this grade, you overpaid.

I love the unique challenges of collecting stuff that isn't the hot market books, but this misgrade isn't really excusable. Willing to name and shame the seller here?

This was a great and detailed post, and helped me better understand the defects to look out for when buying comics. 
As for the seller, it's a name that -- I have come to realize -- has been thrown about this forum often, and it's Silver-Acre based in the UK. 
I've bought from him in the past, and in all fairness a lot of his books (seemed) to be in good condition, however I've had to re-evaluate a lot of the books I've bought from him, after my first CGC submission, when I realized a lot of his supposed Near mint books, ended up looking like my copy of Alf #4, which was graded an 8.0.

Safe to say, I won't be buying from this chap anymore. 

It appears I'm not the only one, looks like Supes got the shaft as well!  

[theCapraAegagrus]

5.0 range.

[Galen130]

5.5