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GRADING CONTEST : Round 2

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THE_BEYONDER

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Staples... i don't see no stinkin' staples...

 

 

actually i did, but i didn't... if that makes any sense... i wasn't really sure what i was seeing... what else is new.... cool.giffrustrated.gif

 

That's exactly how I felt about them. I stared at them for about 20 seconds & thought I was seeing things. Not sure why I didn't ask. insane.gif

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Holy *spoon*. They hammered it THAT bad for some slight rust on the staples? confused.gif

 

Perhaps it's a bit nastier on the inside of the cover?

 

Either that or there was some ever-so-slight moisture waviness . . . 893scratchchin-thumb.gif

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mar-vell

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actually, i think the rust is migrating to the pages, which would explain a VF- grade to me

 

Which makes grading just the cover that much more interesting.

 

if that's the case you can't grade this book without graders notes!

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i asked nik about the staples and was still way off. I did some reading on rusty staples and the general consensus was rusty staples don't hurt super HG books as much as one would think. boy was I wrong

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i asked nik about the staples and was still way off. I did some reading on rusty staples and the general consensus was rusty staples don't hurt super HG books as much as one would think. boy was I wrong

 

No you weren't wrong, there has to be more visible migration on the inside covers or at the centerfold, as it is de minimus on the exterior areas. sumo.gif

 

But hey, that's what makes the game challenging . . . cool.gif

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If the contest is going to include books that have defects that aren't visible from the scan and there's no indication of the defects in the description of the book and the scan is so bright you can't see any of the rust migration, then it's kind of pointless to score people on their grading.

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God damn! I thought LG due to staples and all. but not 7.5!!!

 

yearh i took a stab at 8.5 since they are supposed to be so leniant on rust on HG was going back and forth between 8.0 and 8.5 but since it was otherwise 9.4 i decided for 8.5. *spoon* tongue.gif

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God damn! I thought LG due to staples and all. but not 7.5!!!

 

yearh i took a stab at 8.5 since they are supposed to be so leniant on rust on HG was going back and forth between 8.0 and 8.5 but since it was otherwise 9.4 i decided for 8.5. *spoon* tongue.gif

 

Remember that a speck of rust on one of those BB Safe books knocked it from a 9.8 to 9.4

 

The staples on this comic were ENTIRELY rusted from the looks of it. confused-smiley-013.gif

 

Since they're working backwards from a 10 point scale instead of unilaterally declaring something like "rust only allow below fine", it's almost like they're deducting 1.0 - 1.2 points for each severely rusted staple.

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Mad Dog

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actually, i think the rust is migrating to the pages, which would explain a VF- grade to me

 

Which makes grading just the cover that much more interesting.

 

if that's the case you can't grade this book without graders notes!

 

You can ask Nik in a PM goddamnit ! makepoint.gif

 

I did, i asked " has the rust migrated to the interior" my reply was "I believe it has a little" confused-smiley-013.gif

 

So once again, no reason for complaining! tongue.gif

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