Biggest waste of money you've ever seen spent on slabbing a book? 1 1

[William-James88]

Someone was showing a picture of a purple label 3.0 Batman 567. Kinda crazy for a book like that to exist and I just couldn't believe someone would slab that regardless if it was restored or not. Anyway, it got me thinking, is there a comic out there that you just couldn't believe someone would send to cgc, that you felt was a real waste of money to get slabbed?

Edited April 20, 2021 by William-James88

[sagekilz]

CGC Cert #

3770204001

Title

Alpha Flight

Issue

33

Issue Date

4/86

Issue Year

1986

Publisher

Marvel Comics

Grade

3.0

Page Quality

OFF-WHITE TO WHITE

Grade Date

03/03/2021

Grade Category

Modern

[Qalyar]

I've slabbed a lot of books that aren't realistically worth the cost of slabbing because I want slabbed runs of them for personal reasons and am aware of the financial irrationality. That doesn't bother me. On the other hand, I am the, um, "proud" owner of an 8.5 slab of a relatively common modern book worth maybe a couple of bucks at best (Babylon 5: In Valen's Name #1) because I somehow managed to swap my 9.6/9.8 candidate copy for an undercopy with a large and obvious back cover defect. I haven't sent the good one in yet, because I'm still annoyed at myself, and because it's not like there's anything I can do with the other one...

But that's still not a 3.0 copy of Alpha Flight 33 or whatever the heck that Batman 567 is.

[Namtak]

Even free it would be too pricey

[WolverineX]

3 hours ago, William-James88 said:

Someone was showing a picture of a purple label 3.0 Batman 567. Kinda crazy for a book like that to exist and I just couldn't believe someone would slab that regardless if it was restored or not. Anyway, it got me thinking, is there a comic out there that you just couldn't believe someone would send to cgc, that you felt was a real waste of money to get slabbed?

ummm WHAT... surely the CT was done by the guy who submitted....

[THE_BEYONDER]

[Hollywood1892]

9 minutes ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

 

[Hairless Wookiee]

I am the proud owner of this gem. I wanted this for the cover and it was like $25 so I picked it up.

[catman76]

Yeah, every single slabbed comic.

[BlowUpTheMoon]

[ADAMANTIUM]

I have several beginner mistake slabs

This is the only that I submitted myself

Over all the price I got it for, I'd make my money back

Yet..... it to me was still worth it, others may disagree 

But 

It beats it going in the trash, as few as there may be found in the future.... 

 

[Hollywood1892]

About 90% of the first year of my collection...but due to the volatility of the current market, that is all in the past

[ADAMANTIUM]

1 hour ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I have several beginner mistake slabs

This is the only that I submitted myself

Over all the price I got it for, I'd make my money back

Yet..... it to me was still worth it, others may disagree 

But 

It beats it going in the trash, as few as there may be found in the future.... 

 

Along with that ASM #606

Here are some more I submitted in the same vein

Again, I paid really only about cover price for all of these raws, so I subbed them, cause I didnt exactly buy them to read....

So why not sub them! 

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

Lol

Yall had me looking in the registry 

This...

Thissssss...... was a big let down in grade when I got it back

[William-James88]

3 hours ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

This one is nuts. Ignoring the condition, I don't even get the idea behind slabbing a book that is meant to be sketched on.

[shadroch]

8 minutes ago, William-James88 said:

This one is nuts. Ignoring the condition, I don't even get the idea behind slabbing a book that is meant to be sketched on.

 

As opposed to books that were meant to be read?

Or labeling a classic GA coverless book as having a classic cover?

[William-James88]

3 hours ago, Hairless Wookiee said:

I am the proud owner of this gem. I wanted this for the cover and it was like $25 so I picked it up.

Nothing wrong with owning a book that was not worth getting slabbed, since it's not us who paid the slabbing cost

I do the same. Some I buy because it's what I would have paid for it raw, some I buy for the cover, some I buy to continue the idiocy, here are some of my purchases that fit each of those categories.

 

[William-James88]

6 minutes ago, shadroch said:

Or labeling a classic GA coverless book as having a classic cover?

that is pretty funny

[shadroch]

 I used to buy dirt cheap slabs in order to deslab them. Some were real headshakers.  low grade Marvel 1970s reprints, a super low grade 15 cent Daredevil, a remaindered 1970s Batman, an Alpha Flight 1 in around VG . I hope they had sentimental value to the original slabber .

[William-James88]

Just now, shadroch said:

 I used to buy dirt cheap slabs in order to deslab them. Some were real headshakers.  low grade Marvel 1970s reprints, a super low grade 15 cent Daredevil, a remaindered 1970s Batman, an Alpha Flight 1 in around VG . I hope they had sentimental value to the original slabber .

Well, if they had sentimental value, why arent they still in their collection? 

Joking aside, I am curious, why would you deslab them? Wouldnt they at last be worth a tiny bit more in the slab. I've seen unknowing fans buy random cheap slabs at shows simply for the effect of the slab. Like a frame for an interesting cover.