CGC vs CBCS values???19030
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GAC private msg quote post Address this user | |
| "When old books hit record sales it's always a CGC label so I think people equate the two." In general, CGC has had a 15 year headstart. This is why the majority of older books are in CGC slabs because they were the only game in town at the time (PGX doesn't count). Third party grading originated out of a need to impartially grade and assess vintange/older books. I would hazard a guess that a very significant percentage of important/key vintage books were graded by CGC when there was no other choice. So, this is exactly why sales records and news about vintage books will likely carry a CGC label...they have the luxury of being first.....for a long time. |
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 would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Of course. I was just pointing out the reality of it. People see the CGC label, not any of the others. But even in the current day, these high quality collections get sent to CGC (like Promise), instead of to the other companies, and despite their botched up efforts with overgrading and missed cover replacements, the marketing hype shows CGC labels. As much as I dislike them and certainly don't trust them.. they will always have the name recognition working for them. They will always, in general, be worth more because of it. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Sigur_Ros It would be interesting to know, historically speaking, if a #2 marketshare company has ever overtaken the #1 company. I believe Pepsi or Dr. Pepper was first to market before Coca Cola but I believe Coca Cola is the #1 soft drink company...I could be wrong though. |
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would be nice to have a snugger fit.
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC I think Coke is the #1 pop (soda for the weirdos) but as for companies, I think PepsiCo could be larger due to the brands it owns. It was at some point anyway. As for your question, there was a time when Apple struggled behind Microsoft. |
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Nuffsaid111 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| How about Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler. Our predecessors were stuck with their unreliable crap for 50 years and forced to eat their crap. Then the Asian companies rolled in with reliability and forced them to fix their sh#t and uncaring ways. We need that in this industry to stop the incompetence from these two companies. Competition does that. Else they'll just keep doing what they do. Well keep complaining and nothing changes. It's unacceptable from both. Fix the systemic problems companies. Fix em |
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esaravo private msg quote post Address this user | |
| CGC doesn’t always sell for more than a comparable book in a CBCS slab, even at auctions. Check out the current Comic Link auction. Two 5.0 copies of X-Men #101. The CGC even has better page quality, but the current bids are $72 for the CGC, and $111 for the CBCS. There are, however, 7 days left to bid. | ||
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theCapraAegagrus private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Sigur_Ros On PC, they always have. Much as Windows has always struggled to capture a meaningful smart phone market. |
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theCapraAegagrus private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 They have different market shares, though. For example, if you're looking to buy a truck, you're probably going to look at one of the Big 3. If you're looking for a car, you'll probably be looking at Honda, Toyota, Volvo, etc. American automakers have been moving towards jeeps and trucks because their cars generally can't match import performance/safety. |
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| For those unaware. There is nuance here but Apple was a helpful nuisance to Microsoft at the time. Barely a competitive speck overall. Things change, sometimes rapidly. https://www.wired.com/2009/08/dayintech-0806/amp |
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by theCapraAegagrus Relatively few cars are sold anymore. At least not profitably. Everything is SUV, crossover, etc. Japanese woke up the big 3 in the 80s. Response was significant. Shook up the industry (for the better, overall). Japanese leadership gap is now fully closed. Pretty even playing field globally today. |
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Davethebrave private msg quote post Address this user | |
| As for CBCS and CGC if someone feels CBCS puts out a more strictly graded (lower grades) product, awesome. Buy up the big $ books and flip them into CGC cases and sell them at a big, nearly risk-free profit. On big $ books, you could even do it all express and avoid the wait time. I have a feeling anyone undertaking this endeavor would be disappointed. |
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| . Great discussion . | ||
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Nearmint67 private msg quote post Address this user | |
| @esaravo I agree. Our pal @scifinator has a thread with highest sales for books that often shows CBCS outselling CGC. Oh, and has anyone seen a CGC signed copy of Marvel Tales # 106 come anywhere close to what my CBCS copy sold for last year?  |
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GAC private msg quote post Address this user | |
| To put some perspective on this. If there was only 10,000,000 slabbed comics out there in the entire collecting market. I'd bet the distribution would look something like this: 8,000,000 CGC 1,250,000 CBCS 500,000 PGX 250,000 other If accurate...that's a striking reality. |
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| At age 50, if I bought a marvel tales for $2750. I'd probably be dead before I could get my money back let alone turn a profit. There are books one can pay so much for that they will end up taking to the grave with them. |
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Nuffsaid111 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by theCapraAegagrus All I meant with the example is competition stimulates improvement. Ford, GM, Chrysler didn't care what they put out. Didn't care if there were lemons or reliability. Then someone overseas came in and forced them to care or they take a big hit. CBCS we all complain about CS for years. It is indisputable and it is unacceptable. And yet what do we do? We keep going to them. Or we go to the other guys who are equally a mickey mouse organization in different ways. My point is if we keep going to these two, why would they care about their defective aspects? No competition = no care = no threat of being buried. I'm kinda sick of shenanigans from both and yet..... I have little choice in the slab world. Much like if you wanted to drive in the 70s/80s you had to go to a car company that didn't give a rats ass |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 This is a reality of any industry where there is little to no competition. In the slabbing industry, let's face it, it's a virtual monopoly. I believe CBCS is the best company on the market for the core product but is severely lacking in its peripheral products namely CS. They seem to be happy at #2 and probably believe they'll always be at #2. CGC is at #1 and likely do not consider CBCS a threat at all. This is probably why CGC has no motivation to invest in any improvements on anything. While this industry has "competitors" there is really no competition.....and all the "competitors" seem to be fine with that. |
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| CGC clearly did invest, heavily. That is why they pick up the phone and why their TATs are where they are (not bad). Also why their QC in moderns and high volume suffered. Big ramp in hiring deployed to satisfy demand. Their pricing reflects willingness to battle to hold share. Otherwise they would have spiked prices to same extent as as their costs surely spiked. |
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| @Davethebrave Yes, you're right about that. They seemed to have hired bodies to address the influx of submissions during the boom. QC was impacted negatively, anecdotally anyway, it seems. It feels like CGC's investment was motivated by market pressure and not competitive pressure. Not sure if that's a relevant observation or not. It seems CGC feel and behave as if they have no competition, no threat at all. This is more a statement on the zeal of their competitors than of CGC. |
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| It's quite possible I'm talking out of my @ss on this. lol! | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC This seems true for the most part but it looks like they're introducing a new magazine slab in the next month or so and the existence of CBCS has led them to offer free grader's notes. |
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| @flanders Great observation! | ||
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 The apple sauce and pudding were the best part...
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| Cgc Graders notes that are non existing above a 9.2 and the ones that do have notes suggest pressing will fix the issue. At least cbcs tells you how it really is..... | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Davethebrave I’ve always thought of doing this. Grabbing CBCS 9.6s whose cgc counterparts go for 5x more. Crack, press and re-slab in CGC case. The problem is I’d want to be able to examine the book in person to give the best possible chance at a 9.8. Cant trust ebay photos…And I rarely see CBCS cases in the wild…and conventions just over price everything. |
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 Where's his Bat-package?
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Nothing anecdotal about it. I went for quite a while with very few returns for CGC - just a hair in a seal and a couple cracked cases. Then it was like night and day. All of a sudden I was sending back roughly 50% of my submissions (seriously, 50%) with a bunch of cracked cases and what looked like waterspots on the inside of the cases, and all kinds of crap. Almost all of it was crazy obvious, to the point where had anyone looked at them even a little they would have never been shipped out that way. Add to that, it was as much of a nightmare getting hold of CS at CGC then as it is getting CS at CBCS now. It really, Really sucked, and it's why I still don't use CGC unless they have a signing that I can't pass up. |
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Nuffsaid111 private msg quote post Address this user | |
Quote:Originally Posted by Byrdibyrd They seriously need to ante up hiring or contracting out a packaging engineer and do ISTA testing. I have it done often in my company for parts that I have sent out. There are dozens and dozens of businesses that will charge a flat fee for the design and release of packaging. But McFarlane & Brit little skits are a far better marketing event than a notification of hiring packaging engineers. So ... nahhh... not doing it. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111 It had to have been something in packaging. Either a new procedure that wasn't working or a bad batch of parts for slabs that got past QC. The cracked slabs ALL had the same defects. Crack on the upper left corner or a crack on the right edge in the middle. Every. Single. One. Multiple submissions. And I had them coming in for a couple of months like that. Literally dozens of returns because of these cracks. Whatever the problem was, they've fixed it now, which is a relief. Still, I just can't believe they had materiels and/or procedures that bad and didn't pick up on it for weeks. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Byrdibyrd It happens all the time, still, to me with CGC. Another aspect that I, again, say is absolutely unacceptable as a business entity. It is unacceptable; and is what the mickey mouse club would design. My dashboard is a plethora of "Manufacturing Errors" which of course is returns due to breakage, cracks and unfixable interior scuffs. Ask yourself - is that how a well run business operates? No it is not |
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