CBCS Pressing Update Vol 1, #215738

Originally Posted by Scifinator
@OldSkool - Since the time that you submitted your comics, the estimated press TAT has ballooned from 20 weeks to it now being estimated at 50 weeks. If you paid for "fast pass", that cuts the grading time in half. If you have a "Fast Press", then that would cut the pressing time in half. Either way, as mentioned, both have continued to balloon since you submitted which means that there have been a lot of higher tiers (2 Day Modern, 1 Day, Rapid, and Quickstream) which have jumped in front of you (and I) thus increasing your TAT. Even though you have paid for a Fast ____, you can still be delayed, but your press time or grading time will still end up being appx 1/2 the time as my or most submissions as i haven't paid for Fast Pass or Fast Press.

Cheers

Originally Posted by OldSkool
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Originally Posted by Scifinator
@OldSkool - Since the time that you submitted your comics, the estimated press TAT has ballooned from 20 weeks to it now being estimated at 50 weeks. If you paid for "fast pass", that cuts the grading time in half. If you have a "Fast Press", then that would cut the pressing time in half. Either way, as mentioned, both have continued to balloon since you submitted which means that there have been a lot of higher tiers (2 Day Modern, 1 Day, Rapid, and Quickstream) which have jumped in front of you (and I) thus increasing your TAT. Even though you have paid for a Fast ____, you can still be delayed, but your press time or grading time will still end up being appx 1/2 the time as my or most submissions as i haven't paid for Fast Pass or Fast Press.

Cheers

Thank you, and I do get that, but if the pressing time (I had Fast Press) keeps getting longer each week or month, then the "half time" from the Fast Press is chasing it's own tail. It could be 2 years and still be "half the time" or whatever, theoretically. I don't feel that should be a "sliding scale" standard when you paid up-front for something that was supposed to save time from the time your order started. And even then, 50 weeks (current) divided by 2 is still shorter than the 32 weeks I have already waited, and counting. I don't even care about the extra I paid financially, but I care very much about the time it is (supposed) to save. I just want my books to be done soon.

Originally Posted by Scifinator
@OldSkool @Blair1999 - It's just the nature of how the business model is. You paid to be put in line ahead of me with Fast Press, however, those other 4 tiers are also paying to be place ahead of you and I. Because of all of the rampant comic speculation and cgc's semi-annual price increases, CBCS has been taking in substantially higher amounts of pressing even to the point of breaking the previous months records almost every month for over a year now.

Don't know if you saw one of my recent posts, but I suspect that they will be increasing the estimated TAT's again as on of my two grade only submissions that they receive on 7/6 was just shipped out to me yesterday. That was just over a 32 week TAT for grade only modern. And, my 2nd from that same day is still in labels.

Now, that being said, it is possible that your submission is already out of press and in grading, and they have not updated your dashboard yet. On more recent submissions, it seems that are fairly up to date, but the older submissions may still not be up to date in the process.

Originally Posted by Bronte
@PJsStudio

Not sure where your question is going, but as an FYI, pressing techniques are not allowed to be discussed.