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Masculinity takes a holiday. EbayMafia private msg quote post Address this user
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Originally Posted by southerncross
Incomplete is poor.

Always graded like that.

If grading companies want to pump the grade up well, they can grade those poors as whatever high grade they want.

Kind of disappointed that cbcs would grade a .5 as a 3.0


@southerncross Here's my argument with grading all incomplete as Poor= 0.5: Now you have a whole bunch of books graded 0.5 that otherwise range in physical condition from .5 to 9.8. So why not just give them a qualified grade and grade the rest of the book. You might have two 0.5's of the same book that have completely different market values. The grading companies should be assisting with that. I think that some of the old standards needed to be reconsidered when slabbing was introduced. One was Overstreet capping prices at 9.2 and another was grading all incompletes at 0.5. I think slabbing made both of those obsolete.
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I would liken it to trading cards with their printed four grades on their slab. There is no one underlying criteria that can make a particular comic a .5 for instance except in extreme cases. There may be a maximum baseline it cannot cross though.

If we were to take .5 as an automatic grade for something like a missing MVS, then restoration would be meaningless. Every married comic would be a .5 which is clearly untenable in a slabbed world. (It's missing the entire page.)
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If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8. xkonk private msg quote post Address this user
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Originally Posted by EbayMafia
So why not just give them a qualified grade and grade the rest of the book.


CGC does do this, as we all know, and at least some people find this to be kind of silly. "Ignoring all the missing stuff, this book is a 8.5". Well, sure, if you ignore all the missing stuff...
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If the viagra is working you should be well over a 9.8. xkonk private msg quote post Address this user
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If we were to take .5 as an automatic grade for something like a missing MVS, then restoration would be meaningless. Every married comic would be a .5 which is clearly untenable in a slabbed world. (It's missing the entire page.)


Restored books aren't missing things; they've been restored. Then they get labeled as such. Restored books do get, essentially, a qualified grade by definition.
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Still can't believe cbcs grades a coupon cut out as a 3.0.

I'd rather a 2.0 all complete.
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So why not just give them a qualified grade and grade the rest of the book.


CGC does do this, as we all know, and at least some people find this to be kind of silly. "Ignoring all the missing stuff, this book is a 8.5". Well, sure, if you ignore all the missing stuff...


On the other hand, if you're not going to ignore the missing stuff, why grade the book? Everyone in the industry can tell you that the book is missing a coupon or page. But we pay the experts to tell us about the rest of the book.
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I'm good with splotches. Nuffsaid111 private msg quote post Address this user
When books get down to 1.0s, 2.0s, 1.5's, 0.5's; I just don't care what the grade is anymore.
Monetarily, I understand it matters. But from an ownership perspective I don't care

I think the grade on these books should be graded at "<2.0" and call it a day.
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I think the grade on these books should be graded at "<2.0" and call it a day


That's actually a reasonable thought for about 99.9% of comics. Just "Less than Good", no need to go further than that. For rare books that exist in small tattered numbers it might be important to differentiate between 2.0 and 1.0.
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Suck it up, buttercup!! KatKomics private msg quote post Address this user
I think PGX has it right...once they are slabbed who cares if it's missing coupons or pages or has colour touch - no one will ever know - give grades to all comics..and generous ones at that!!!

Overstreet is just a guideline that the grading companies use but have come up with their own..so we can't really say coupon cut is max 1.0 because that isn't how they grade or what the market is accepting of.



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