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"CGC can fix that for you?"

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Flee-Marquette

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I was at a Flea Market yesterday morning looking at a vendors comic books and she had a few decent bronze mixed in with the usual stuff. I picked out a couple of Phantom Strangers and an Amazing Adventures 15 and asked how much. She said $2.00 each, so I looked them over again and just kept the AA15. She said "Out of that pile of comics, that is all you picked out?" I replied that the comics were lower grade and if the price was cheaper I could pick out a few more. She said that she wouldn't go down on price and that condition is not a factor any more now that there is that company CGC that will fix comics. She noticed my puzzled expression and went on to explain that you just send them comics and they get rid of wrinkles, replace covers and send them back to you good as new sealed in plastic. I tried to explain to her that CGC is a grading company not a comic repair shop but she wasn't listening. I also tried to tell her that even if she had someone restore her comics they were weren't worth the added cost. She seemed to be getting agitated so I just changed the subject because I try to be on friendly terms with all the vendors.

I remember when I used to haunt the Canton First Monday trade Days in Texas in the 80's and 90's I loved to listen in on the bartering between vendors and customers. The vendor at some point in the negotiation would say "Well at the auction house I can get XXX dollars for that". Then with the advent of eBay, the catch phrase was "Well on eBay they are going for XXX dollars". I knew the flea market mindset was changing the more and more I heard that "eBay" buzzword. Yesterday was the first time I heard the "CGC" buzzword from a flea market vendor and I guess for those of us who search for comics, I hope we haven't entered the era where the new catch phrase is "CGC can fix that for you." makepoint.gif27_laughing.gif

 

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Wally's Comics

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gossip.gif PCS

 

???

 

Taken from wikipedia:

 

"In 2005-6, CGC's parent company, the Certified Collectibles Group, tried to launch a new separate company called Paper Conservation Service (PCS), with CGC's main restoration expert Chris Friesen as its President. It can be inferred from the company name and the President's previous experience as a former Restoration/Conservation Specialist (Friesen dissolved his Renaissance Restoration service when he joined CGC) that the company would have provided Conservation services such as dry cleaning, non-disassembly pressing and a restoration removal service (for example, removal of color touch) and other conservative procedures. PCS closed it's doors shortly after their opening announcement: "Our primary purpose has always been to act in a protective role to the collectibles fields in which we operate. While I feel the value that PCS brings to the market has been misunderstood, we have always listened to all sides of every argument and responded to collectors and hobbyist as a fundamental component of our business development. Ultimately we did not feel that we were serving in the collectors' best interest if there was a perception of conflict between CGC and PCS."

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Flee-Marquette

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gossip.gif PCS

 

that's what I was thinking...

 

 

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That thought entered my mind and I even asked her if that was what she was talking about and it wasn't. She was probably trying to get a sale by talking about something she heard from her sister's boyfriend's uncle's next door neighbor. 893blahblah.gif

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Davenport

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Yesterday was the first time I heard the "CGC" buzzword from a flea market vendor and I guess for those of us who search for comics, I hope we haven't entered the era where the new catch phrase is "CGC can fix that for you." makepoint.gif27_laughing.gif

 

27_laughing.gif Funny story...and spooky. Spooky to think that CGC closing PCS, followed by Classics Inc. in the CGC dry clean/press faq, leaves a misperception with the misinformed general public. A misperception ALL slabbed comics have been "fixed", and ALL uncertified comics could be fixed.

 

Worse, common offerings and prices based on an Urban Legend that "condition is not a factor any more now that there is that company CGC that will fix comics".

 

Spooky. 893whatthe.gif

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SolitaireOne

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She noticed my puzzled expression and went on to explain that you just send them comics and they get rid of wrinkles, replace covers and send them back to you good as new sealed in plastic.

 

You mean that isn't how it works? 27_laughing.gifscrewy.gif

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Ogami

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FT,

 

thanks. I remember that thread (but acronyms aren't my strong suit).

 

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edited- in other words, now that I see the thread, I see what you are saying. just seeing the anacronym, I didn't.

 

me tired.

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