If you could get a mosquito in a Jurassic Park comic slab, that would be kind of funny.
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Been warning people since Blackstone bought them out that they would further deteriorate into a POS company when it’s run by a bunch of greedy as fsck shareholders who don’t give two shits about quality, only $$ in their pockets. Cut corners, lower costs = higher profits… That’s all they care about.
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You did call the downfall quite well.
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I agree.
And the biggest problem remains is that they are essentially a monopoly.
So they can actually get away with poor quality, poor decisions, poor policy, poor procedures.
No company in the world that is in a competetive business environment can get away with what they’ve been getting away with and survive, because there’s someone else there to take that business away if that’s the offering.
Blackstone is a big problem. Greediness and shareholders are a big problem. Not giving an f about quality is a huge problem. But to me, the biggest is and has always been they are a monopoly and can get away with almost anything and barely feel the effect.
I’m getting this feeling based on significant decreases in submissions that they’re starting to feel it now, but they’re still the quasi-monopoly. Someone else has got to step in and start eating at their customer base.
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I think we all did…no one thought the acquisition would make quality higher.
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CGC got back to me on the BUGs slab and they basically stated I would have to pay to get the book reholdered. Another reason why I quit using CGC all together.
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WTF!!! Oh wow. Yeah I had some books I wanted signed at SDCC and maybeeee use CGC, yeah they are on my “never to do business with” list.
CGC just made #10
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Did you send it in for grading, or buy from someone else?
I recall that there was a short window in which they would warranty any slabbing issues…something like 14 days upon it leaving CGC.
Sell it. List it as CGC error. They will pay you to take it back once it gets out that they slabbed a bug.
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Don’t forget to advertise it on the CGC forums! You’ll get banned, but not before the fire starts and spreads!
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Shit. I will run an article if you list it. I have done it before. The owner of the book got messages from cgc saying he had to send the book back or he could never submit again. He ended up selling the book for tons of money and said screw cgc. Long story short he just started submitting through his lcs.
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Wow. A 9.2 sold for $600+ in 2017?
I just bought mine, white pages, for about $200 less.
Has anyone checked out the heritage auctions the other day?…a lot of thuds. I can’t believe how many of the books on heritage are books that “sold” within the last several months too. Not a good time to relist a book on there…
It wasn’t a 9.2. It was a good 5.5 or 6.0 that they completely shit the bed on grading. They tried to say it was a wrong label but the serial number was in line with the rest of the submission. So he sold it for more than the book was worth as an oddity. Cgc said they wanted the book back. He declined.
Was he banned?
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Here is the last book I was looking for on my list. I paid $72 total. Not a crazy steal, but a still a good deal.
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I submitted the book myself. I will post on CGC forum but based on the CGC response they dont seem to care about the bug issue.
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CGC thinks they are untouchable. Customers need to bring their business elsewhere in huge numbers to change that stance.
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CGC response:
If you’d like to resubmit the book back to us for an updated holder free of these, it would have to be resubmitted as a ReHolder, which has a fee of $25 per book for any books valued at $1,000 or less.
Disgusting. They truly have turned out to be one of the most greedy companies out there. Put the book up on Ebay and list with a clever but snarky title. There is a chance you will make more than the book is worth. If CGC threatens you with banishment go tell them to “F” themselves. I know that sounds a bit crude but they really have gone from bad to worse.
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