A picture speaks a thousand words..........!?

[Amazing_Bag_man]

Why is it that when some or many auctions occurs at E-bay that the item that they sell in which case it's a comicbook.The picture of the comicbook happens to be cropped on the edges and or spine. Their description mention it's graded at a 7.5 or 8.0 which in fact could be lower because it's true condition is covered up or in this case "cropped".

 

I notice that you can tell the images is not showing every corner of the comicbook.Every time I had to ask them to e-mail me a larger image to see the true condition of the book. Did some of you have come across the same situation??

 

[blowout]

It is an old trick used to cover up flaws on the book.

I wouldn't bid on auctions with scans like that, its likely the books are grossly overgraded.

[Joanna]

Com,

 

If the books had edges and corners to be proud of, the seller would be a fool not to show them off. There's no logical reason to crop a scan other than a) the book won't fit on the scanner --true for CGC books in a lot of cases or b) the seller has something to hide. If they're raw, there's an excellent chance it's (b). Don't bid.

[Amazing_Bag_man]

No, actually in cases that I faced are the "Raw" type and I do ask for a larger scan if they are honest about it. But if they don't give me a scan that I'm comfortable to bid on then I would "run for the hill" from that auction.......

[drbanner]

Unfortunately, some scanning software packages have auto-crop features that sellers don't know how to turn off. And a turn off it is...