TLDR: professional pressing services are taking too damned long and may have quality control issues to where I could probably learn and do it myself in the time it would take for the current TATs. Offered up free labor and legal agreement not to disclose the secret sauce if allowed to use knowledge learned to work on personal collection books only in my home.
I'm not even sure this is a business CGC wants to be in as its just insane to have to wait that long or even 2/3 of that time with f
Yes, these things have and do happen. But I've come to understand and respect the work that a very small number of individuals do as quality work and isn't the garbage manipulation some have embraced. Unfortunately, some of the people engaged in this are pretty big names in the hobby.
In fact, there's only one person that I would send my books to if I was going to have them pressed, whose work I've seen and been impressed by. His name rhymes with Chloe Most.