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How to Handle Comic Books?
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On 6/12/2022 at 6:46 PM, KirbyTown said:

This is ostensibly all other people's stuff that has been entrusted to a what's supposed to be a legitimate organization, and this guy is treating it all like a joke. No pretense of respect or privacy, and the lack of professionalism is eye opening. If it weren't for the whole showing it off thing then there'd be nothing to know to gripe about, but this guy made the decision to go public so it's fair game to call it out.

Wait, I'm not taking into account that they're only the tHiRd largest auction house in the world; not like a Christie's or something. Who am I kidding, Sotheby's surely keeps filled water bottles around their clients' paper emphemera.

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Heritage is stealing CGC's schtick:

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On 6/13/2022 at 7:41 PM, MR SigS said:

There are two black covers on top of the #4. Must be them.

Bottom edge underhang matches on left book and right bottom corner on other probably. And don't be concerned, guy implemented Extra Protection Measures by leaving a board under each (in the stack)

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On 6/14/2022 at 12:14 AM, KirbyTown said:

 

Let Not Volume Lead Thee Into Complacency!

 

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Doofusses! :makepoint:

 

ETA: What is it with these doofusses that compels them to lay or stack high-$$$ books hanging off the edge of their over-crowded desks?? :makepoint:

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Is this how anyone here handles their OWN high-$$ books.... let alone someone else's? doh!

 

 

Dumb and Dumber I presume? :insane::insane:

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On 6/14/2022 at 8:31 AM, jcjames said:

Doofusses! :makepoint:

I can understand that if there's only one or two guys handling inventory then they probably take a LOT of shortcuts in order to get through the day and that's just part of the cost, though that would seem precluded when it's not your inventory and your job is to maximize someone else's value. In contrast, I know that MCS / Lone Star has two tracks to separate their own inventory from consignment because they process both differently.

 

On a different note, the lack of self awareness by flexing in cluttered workspaces and with questionable practices makes the whole thing reek of desperation. It's not even your stuff and people definitely don't associate you with the uniqueness of the comics; people do literally mail that stuff in.

In contrast again, if you ever lurked Borock's thread while he was at the other place, he would show a book he was doing but it would feature just the book on an immaculate desk and definitely not include him in the pic. Even if everything not in the frame was your standard workplace mess, he didn't flaunt it as admirable. Of course he already has max cred in the comic world.

also...

***Who knows how much higher these record-setting books might have graded if they'd been treated appropriately?***

 

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On 6/10/2022 at 3:48 PM, Black_Adam said:

Was just checking out Instagram and noticed this shot of a stack of vintage comics at Heritage waiting for grading. My first instinct was to cringe, sure that these comics were seconds away from a gravity-induced calamity. But then I read the comments and noted the poster's reassurance (to another similarly concerned comic-fan) that he was an expert with years of handling comics exactly like this with not one single book ever damaged while in his capable hands. He must be an expert - I could never make a stack like this without it falling over. :tonofbricks:

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I don't stack and mistreat books this way when they're undercopies of valueless drek, much less the books in this pile.

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On 6/14/2022 at 7:44 AM, KirbyTown said:

Bottom edge underhang matches on left book and right bottom corner on other probably. And don't be concerned, guy implemented Extra Protection Measures by leaving a board under each (in the stack)

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I suspect the boards are not buffered and acid-free, though.

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