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[Chester Cheetah]

Was gonna get around to submitting my Moderns back in the early aughts but got sidetracked with stuff.  Finally got around to submitting them this week prior to the price hike.  [__] books, Moderns, Pressing, “Fast track”, Prescreen, mostly ASMs, PPSSM and Secret Wars’es.  See you in the Fall guys, hopefully.

Edited May 7, 2022 by Chester Cheetah
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[theCapraAegagrus]

[Chester Cheetah]

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Edited February 10, 2022 by Chester Cheetah

[Math Teacher]

On 1/17/2022 at 3:51 PM, Chester Cheetah said:

Was gonna get around to submitting my Moderns back in the early aughts but got sidetracked with stuff.  Finally got around to submitting them this week prior to the price hike.  27 books, Moderns, Pressing, “Fast track”, Prescreen for 9.4, mostly ASMs, PPSSM and Secret Wars’es.  See you in the Fall guys, hopefully.

@Chester Cheetah is one heck on an optimist.

[revat]

On 2/11/2022 at 3:40 PM, Math Teacher said:

On 1/17/2022 at 1:51 PM, Chester Cheetah said:

Was gonna get around to submitting my Moderns back in the early aughts but got sidetracked with stuff.  Finally got around to submitting them this week prior to the price hike.  27 books, Moderns, Pressing, “Fast track”, Prescreen for 9.4, mostly ASMs, PPSSM and Secret Wars’es.  See you in the Fall guys, hopefully.

@Chester Cheetah is one heck on an optimist.

I think he'll get the books by Fall '23 pretty easily.

[Chester Cheetah]

I just dropped my car off a the dealership for an oil change and scheduled maintenance.

They said I should get it back sometime in August.  

In bizarro world.

[Chester Cheetah]

Week 3.

Last night I watch yet another Korean zombie flick on NFLX.  I couldn’t help but wonder how my ## books are doing at CCS.  Are they being fed properly?  Looked after?  I miss them.  Counting the years until we’re reunited.

Edited May 7, 2022 by Chester Cheetah
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[Chester Cheetah]

Today went into my account and submission vanished,  was there yesterday.  listed as being with CCS.  today gone, and also not showing receipt either,  as if someone deleted it.

[Chester Cheetah]

This week my boys went from “Received at CCS” to “CCS In Process”, appr. 100 days (Earth days, not CGC days) after actual warehouse receipt by CGC. I’ll force myself to take that as a good sign.

[Chester Cheetah]

This week, one batch changed to Scheduled for Grading.  The other still CCS in Process. 

[Chester Cheetah]

That one batch switched to Grading/Encapsulation.  Movement.

[Chester Cheetah]

That batch changed to shipped.  Must be my lucky day.  Six rejects though.  No 9.8s, couple of 9.6s though.

Five months total for that batch.  All things considered not too bad.  Still have another batch from same Jan delivery stuck in CCS though.

Edited June 15, 2022 by Chester Cheetah

[Chester Cheetah]

Second batch out of CCS in Process and into Scheduled for Grading.

[Chester Cheetah]

Today the batch moved to Grading/Encapsulation.  Yay.

[thehumantorch]

On 8/3/2022 at 2:08 PM, Chester Cheetah said:

Today the batch moved to Grading/Encapsulation.  Yay.

Progress

[Chester Cheetah]

Now moved to GRADING/QUALITY CONTROL.  I can almost taste it now.

[Chester Cheetah]

SHIPPED.  Expecting receipt next week.  4 Rejects and nine 9.4s / 9.6s.  (I check online, dont care for unboxing surprises).  

Will prob re-submit rejects from these batches as I probably set the pre screen too high.

So all in from my shipment in Jan to likely receipt of both batches, 7 months all in.  This was with CCS, pre screen and fastrack for the whole thing.

Good luck, fellow comic nerds,

Edited August 12, 2022 by Chester Cheetah

[Chester Cheetah]

aaaaaaaand the slabs arrived without the Custom labels.  Which I specifically listed.  and paid for.

Why is this place so gd bad at quality control?

[Chester Cheetah]

so then I resubmit the 10 books that got rejected off a 9.4 pre screen from these two batches, all of which had been through CCS via CGC and never touched in transition once they got back to me.  I literally immediately placed them in a box again and sent back to CGC in the same bag and boards CGC sent them back to me in and one of the books gets a 7.0 and grader notes says light fingerprints on the cover,

There is no other explanation than this place just plain sucks and has absolutely zero quality control.  An utter and total waste of my time and money,

[MAR1979]

On 8/31/2022 at 9:45 PM, Chester Cheetah said:

so then I resubmit the 10 books that got rejected off a 9.4 pre screen from these two batches, all of which had been through CCS via CGC and never touched in transition once they got back to me.  I literally immediately placed them in a box again and sent back to CGC in the same bag and boards CGC sent them back to me in and one of the books gets a 7.0 and grader notes says light fingerprints on the cover,

There is no other explanation than this place just plain sucks and has absolutely zero quality control.  An utter and total waste of my time and money,

Sadly your experience is not an outlier, not an exception, and is becoming the norm.

Blackstone's eliminated Q/C as it affects very bottom line padding to bonus' of their Executives who hop around from firm to firm every 18-24 months leaving a bloody trail of wrecked livelihoods in their wake. As long as CGC has more inbound business than in effect they can handle there will be no more Q/C.  When things turn, and eventually submissions  slow to lower than pre-pandemic levels, Blackstone will simply sell CGC. 

Edited September 1, 2022 by MAR1979