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DrWatson private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Interesting. https://www.cpacomic.com/ Note that you have to submit the complete book and let them cut the pages out for you. Fourteen bucks a page, plus tax and S&H, and a 50 page minimum with a 90 day TAT due to high demand and the pandemic. Imagine. |
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 I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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flanders private msg quote post Address this user | |
| That seems like an extremely high price to have a page graded and then placed in a cheap looking holder with an even cheaper looking label. | ||
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southerncross private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @DrWatson $700 minimum order sign me up for that after I drop 10k on a poor condition incomplete hulk 181 🤪 | ||
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DrWatson private msg quote post Address this user | |
@flanders But the web site says the holder is "state of the art." |
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I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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flanders private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I also like how they try to make their product seem more desirable by stating there is a 90 day tat due to the overwhelming demand for this new service, as if anyone would be gullible enough to believe this. | ||
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DrWatson private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Well, if it's only one person working day and, err... day encapsulating pages, then it probably takes a while. | ||
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 I'll probably wake up constipated.
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Pre_Coder private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by flanders @flanders Exactly what I was thinking.  |
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MatterEaterLad private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson "We use the FINEST second-hand top loaders and only the best glue guns from Hobby Lobby. If they're on sale. Otherwise Scotch Tape recycled from the previous Christmas." |
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 Masculinity takes a holiday.
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EbayMafia private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I so badly want to say that this is my company and just start making up answers to everyone's questions and comments. Does anyone know if grader notes are free? | ||
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 Captain Corrector
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CaptainCanuck private msg quote post Address this user | |
| . There are many sold listings on eBay believe it or not. However, the seller is from Mooresville, NC, the same town that CPA is based out of. COI (Conflict of Interest) grading should be the new name. |
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Pre_Coder private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @EbayMafia After reading through the FAQ's, I didn't see any mention of Graders Notes,... unless I missed it. | ||
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southerncross private msg quote post Address this user | |
| No offense to the owner of the business but I could never use this service. If by dumb luck I happen on a coverless action 1 missing a half a dozen wraps I'd send what's left the cgc or cbcs to have it authenticated and slabbed. Now there are dealers who deal in selling pages and they are complete wraps that can be married to a book making it complete even though they'll take a big hit being graded by a competent 3rd party graded. A single page cut out can't be used to marry a book properly except float inside the book loosely. Once again a service not for me. |
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 past performance is no guarantee of future actions.
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KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson art is subjective??? |
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DrWatson private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by KatKomics That's what they say, but everyone seems to know when it sucks. |
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 Not trying to be an ass since February 12, 2020.
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| What a steamy pile of garbage. So many good books are going to be destroyed | ||
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monjoody private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson And people have problems with the CBCS label... yikes Quote: Originally Posted by HulkSmash That was my thought. You're paying this company to destroy a comic that you could arguably sell a graded copy for more. |
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 I don't believe this....and I know you don't care that I don't believe this.
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GAC private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by HulkSmash I doubt this service gets any traction....I dont see piles of books getting mutilated. |
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dielinfinite private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I just stumbled on my first CPA pages on ebay while searching for some books. One seller, emerald-imports, has about 150 listings for CPA pages, including a few they list as complete books graded as individual pages. The “complete books” are “Sponsored results” and are priced optimistically as you could get a complete graded book of a comparable grade for about the same, if not less than what they’re asking. Though they are open to offers. | ||
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 The Fifth Golden Girl
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sborock private msg quote post Address this user | |
| THIS...IS...NOT...GOOD! Yeah, let's tear up every comic! What is going on that people would do this to their favorite books? I guess I am just old. |
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I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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flanders private msg quote post Address this user | |
@dielinfinite Emerald-imports aka CPA. At least there seems to be only one person crazy enough to have used their services...the owner.  |
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EbayMafia private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @flanders You did the research to confirm exactly what I was thinking. It kind of feels like the whole CPA LLC is a cover story for a guy doing this with his own books and trying to sell the pages. I'm sure they would take submissions from the general public, but at $700 minimum per order there can't be much demand from outsiders. | ||
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EbayMafia private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by sborock Just the never ending pursuit of manufactured value. Although to be completely fair, I remember hearing some people say the same thing when you first introduced slabbing, lol. |
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The Fifth Golden Girl
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sborock private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by EbayMafia No, it's not fair. Huge difference between protecting a book in a holder and tearing them up. Huge. |
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 You can't get good wood on the ball every time.
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HotKeyComics private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Per his own guide, no page can get above a .8 since its either altered or trimmed (out of the original book) I would love to see some customer reviews from this company!  |
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dielinfinite private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @flanders I had a feeling that would be the case seeing as some of the “full comics” being sold are listed for the minimum grading price at CPA. That and their large number of CPA products. I haven’t searched but they might be the only seller selling CPA on ebay. Along with the sold items, their stock represents about $3k in grading fees at CPA. Which I would think is a lot for an outsider to throw at an unproven company but if you’re doing it to books yourself then it probably costs a few pennies a book. | ||
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DrWatson private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by HotKeyComics I don't believe they count it as trimming when they cut the page out of the book. I think they would be referring to the other three sides. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by sborock I'd say that someone had a lower grade copy of a sought after book with something missing from it like a centerfold or it had no cover. They looked at the potential of selling it off whole vs pages and weighed the potential income doing either way. If they could make more money grading and selling pages from it than selling it whole I can see them selling it piecemeal. I wouldn't agree with it but with the prices being as stupid as they are in today's market I can see it happening. Well, it is happening. |
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 CBCS Pressing
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SteveRicketts private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by sborock But in fairness it might be a way for the "But you can't read the comic book anymore" collectors to finally embrace comic book encapsulation. |
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The Fifth Golden Girl
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sborock private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by SteveRicketts LOL! |
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the420bandito private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Just wait ...there will be pedigree pages, signature series pages with sketch, store variant pages, etc. | ||
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