I lost most of my original collection, house, and town to Katrina. Most people relocated and the population still hasn’t rebounded. I didn’t start collecting again until I moved to a desert, high up. Insurance only gave me around $1k for all of the contents I lost. It was brutal.
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Sorry to hear that, truly.
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It’s not about the category so much as what side is the hurricane you’re on. Last checked because of the Jet Stream to the north it was expected to hit landfall as a Cat 3, but slow movement down…such that anyone along the coast East and southeast will likely see a surge not seen in over 100+ years. Basically the rotation of the storm pushes a wall of water onto land. While north will see the high winds blowing everything out to sea.
Obviously the more inland you are the better…but Florida isn’t exactly known for its hills…
Worth watching where it tracks related to Tampa for sure. But I think it’ll be inland enough to be ok.
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I have two books there.
Both are from celebrity signings way way back (I don’t submit to them anymore since bend gate).
One just changed to “shipping” today, so I should be good there.
The other? - will likely be bent AND saturated.
As long as they offer a free shitty press after it’s destroyed, all should be fine. 
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For real. They will block you if you return books because the inner wells are too long for the cases?
I’m not sure you can return a book without paying for it…unless you get the ok from them ahead of time.
It’s been a while though.
I’m still waiting CGC out. It’s been about a year since I last submitted any books. I need to see if they eat some crow and fix the issues they created before I give them my money.
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CGC: Thank you for your concern. These issue/defect are within tolerance. Don’t missed the opportunity to sign up for SPECIAL CGC PIN and take advantage of “HURRICANE” special.
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There are no issue that needs to be address. These “defects” are within tolerance. Best Regard, CGC Customer Service.
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I’m sure they’ve been taking detailed tolerance measurements of each and every slab during QC for their own self-assurance of consistent quality.
I mean, they’re just that type of company where Quality is #1
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Looks within tolerance to me! 
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I bet they didn’t have a cat 5 in mind as one of their 10/10 day surprises… sheesh
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Yup…When that arrogance changes and they start catering to their customer’s needs better is when I will go back… Of course, there is CBCS and PGX if I really need to get some books grades ASAP…and PSA looming. CGC better get its act together before they become the “Sears” of collectible grading.
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The scary part with CGC is no matter what scandal comes their way or being backed up yet again to where we are getting some slight tail end Covid TAT that sucks, CGC still keeps going.
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They do because people make the most money off them, but the second that changes CGC will be in trouble. There is only so much people can take and even if it takes a decade to come to fruition, eventually the mighty will fall. If CGC doesn’t change their ways, they will only have themselves to blame. I’ve always liked them, but my life will go on just fine if CGC disappears from the marketplace. They are replaceable.
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The difference between this scandal and all the other scandals is that the other scandals affect a very small part of their client base. With the reholder scandal only a very small minority were buying cgc 9.8s of Hulk 181s etc. Employees stealing your comics? Cgc can make whole by reimbursing you for your “lost” books. It’s not ideal but affected customers will get something back.
This time, the scandal affects everyone whether you slab 2 $50 books a year or dealers slabbing thousands for their business. This is something they have to fix.
Someone posted a graph in the cgc forum of total submissions added to the census and there’s been a sharp decline within the last several months. Cgc has been doing a crazy amount of creator signings to prop up that number but once that well runs dry and more people are aware of the problem, cgc can be in big trouble when they see the value of their slabs not commanding the premium they use to.
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Cgc now grading digital comics!.. watch video and make sure to read the comments 
Updated the thread name to include PSA
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