Have We Become too Picky?6098

Originally Posted by KatKomics
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Originally Posted by OGJackster
Okay, everyone is saying"YES, YES, YES!". I'll say, no. A lot of people on this forum are sellers. (I' not) But the bottom line is a majority of the books we want for our collection, we want the best. That's a 9.8. So no, we are not getting too picky.

I think you may be proving the point....there was a time,in the olden days, at the dawn of the computer era and before grading and the internet, when yes we wanted the best for our collections then too but what would now be the 9.2-9.8 range was about as good as it got and was known to be variable/subjective and was just called Near Mint or Mint and you know that store A's mint was different from store B's and adjusted your expectations accordingly.

Even now people loose their s#!t when a book that was 9.8 gets re-graded and comes back a 9.6 and don't seem to understand how that happens - in the end it is a subjective grade assigned by humans (kind of like gymnastics in the Olympics - is a 9.4 really any less impressive than a 9.8 [take into account the Russian judges always give their contestants higher grades]).

If I can find a raw book in the 9.2-9.8 range I'm happy to pay much less than the graded 9.8 that could really be lower. Even happy to pay much less for graded books well below 9.8 knowing full well that they could pull a grade or two higher/or lower if re-submitted.

Maybe..eventually grading will be the end of comics. I can honestly say that I have read almost if not every one of my 7k books, aside from the purchased slabs - only 30 or so, and often I've bought a beater or trade to read that issue - after all that is what they were made for.

There is nothing wrong with wanting the best but at some point if all we are doing is buying books that went from the press to the slab - then what's it all really about??