No idea. Never bought from them.
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And by destroy, they mean… tuck away, hide and sell on the after market under different eBay handles. 
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Lots of dumb decisions being made by them. Starting a new comic publishing endeavour in the current financial climate is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve seen yet
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I noticed something last week,
marvel has been cutting back on the incentive variants on a lot of titles while dc seems to be doubling down adding them to every title
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DC needs money while Marvel doesn’t.
But you know… Whatnot was valued at 1 billion dollars? Yet Jetblue Airlines is buying Spirit Airlines for 3.8 billion… so yeah… Whatnot is worth 1 billion dollars… those guys need to get the F outta here with their damn nonsense… Whatnot probably likely worth around 100k at most… and that’s on a good day!
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Maybe Jetblue can buy Whatnot … 
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Yeah, so they can shut it down!
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CGC with these asking prices for the sigs doesn’t care what a recession is:
Tessa Thompson $200
Josh Broslin $285
Benedict Cumberbatch $385
Emilia Clarke $300
Kit Harrington $300
Andrew Garfield $265
So Dr Strange demands more premium than Valkyrie, Thanos, Black Knight, Dragon Queen/Qi’Ra AND SPIDERMAN… I call baloney
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I’m attending a larger con next week and will give a full report out. As I troop the event with the 501st it allows me a good way to observed everything and typically transactions still take place with me just hovering in armor lol.
My personal experience over the last few months at little cons I’ve attended is that anyone bringing bigger books and graded books is just wasting their time. They don’t sell. Books that are $20 and under will move and dollar bins do well. Obviously, I’m not talking about SDCC environments where big money comes to play.
I see lots of looking, talking, oohing and aweing…but no sales on bigger books.
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Was curious just took a look at the stock Funko Inc (FNKO) trading at near yearly highs.
You have “insider info” sir via Con report 
I missed this story from Mid June Funko bought Mondo
Bob Iger maybe out of Disney but still involved via Funko (May 2022)
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I’m not sure about that. I just bought a slabbed 9.0 immortal hulk 2 1st print ($45 book) for $12, and a SiKTC #1 frison 9.6 for $81 yesterday on eBay.
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That’s the rumor
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At SDCC I talked to some dealers and they didn’t sell big priced items. Also I saw that some of the prices where WAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced. We went to some dealers and none of them wanted to discount books. I bought 0 books at the con from dealers. I got the IDW Sonic book for the PC. And was able to get the Nottingham SDCC exclusive at a good price due to some light damage on the cover. Over all. Con was ok on books.
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Conventions are like buying a hamburger at the theme park, You’re paying $15 for a burger that should cost your $2.99 anywhere else in the sane world of business.
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Went to Dallas Fanfest which is huge, bought $0 in books and saw almost nobody buying comics. Went to a tiny con before that and spent my entire budget in 15 minutes, saw people everywhere buying books. Unknown tiny cons seems to be like cons back in the 90s with books being a bigger focus.
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Ill never understand these stores that go to cons and try to sell a $600 book for $1200 and wont budge off that price a bit.
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We all have the internet, why would we ever buy a slabbed book for twice what we can off of ebay.
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Overpriced, everywhere.
I go to my LCS every week and see books I want, but can’t bring myself to pay the 25%-30% mark up on them. I’ve told one of the employees, “dude, (in low voice) books are really over-priced”, he just gives me a look like “what can I do, boss wants those prices”. For an outrageous example, X-Men #1, you know the 8 million copies one, yea … $25. Lol what??? you can still grab them from $1 bins…
And my discount isn’t what it used to be and I’ve been going there most of my collecting years. 
Collecting anything is just crazy now.
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The big Cons have just devolved into big cosplay fests with endless tables of Funko Pop. I miss the early 200X’s when it was like $5 to get into a smaller con and they had endless tables of comics and action figures. Crowds were way smaller; mostly “real” comic book fans looking for comics. Now, 1 out of 3 males are dressed as Deadpool and if a female is not dressed as Harley Quinn, she is Poison Ivy. I’ve seen some BIG Poison Ivy’s, lol.
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