Dumpster Fire at CGC19558

Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck
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Originally Posted by Gaard
And they were shipped out a few weeks ago.

Okay.

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Originally Posted by Gaard
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Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111
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Originally Posted by Retired_11B
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Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111
You're on the clock: 13 days, 18 hours, 23 minutes to get it back to CGC. Go!
(side note: hope you're the submitter; otherwise do not pass Go)

Such a wonderful policy.
What a great company.
They're just the best. I can't say it enough times.

I had my presser send them back immediately. My name isn't on the order, he presses and then submits them for me. Charges less than the companies do, plus he is very efficient at it.

Yep - I'm in the same boat as you with my presser submitting under his account. I guess I can't handle the breakages and returns without involving the presser now. Just utter ridiculousness.

lol...soooo..how long before pressers say they've had enough and stop returning them for customers?
If the issue is as pervasive as it seems they will have to devote time/effort to dealing with this taking away from their actual business - can't see them doing it for long

Pressers will, unfortunately, probably just raise their prices. It's just logical ... they have to do more work, afterall.

Yeah.

Another reason why I would never press books for other people for $18, or whatever the average rate is now.

It still blows my mind that people who submit regularly to either or both companies, don’t just buy a press and learn how to press.

Pressing your own books does 3 things…..saves pressing fees, lessens TAT.

Cuts down the odds of book damage- less number of hands on a book.

When I started pressing, I had to learn by trial and error.

Now, there’s tutorial pressing books AND YouTube channels.

we also pay people who we trust know what they are doing and will select to appropriate method(s) to clean up our books instead of crushing the shit out of them.

You say it like we’re ironing slacks.

I don’t see how Pressing our own books will reduce damages if we don’t know what the hell we are doing during the “trial and error” period.

Lessens TATs? Who gives a shit. This is America; we throw money at problems to make them go away.

Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111
One day we (sellers) will be on the hook for a Newton Ring scale numerical rating.

Wouldn't that be cool?

We have a company that grades a comic and then another company B comes along to give a numerical grade to the severity of the Newton rings. Im loving this.

Originally Posted by James42
So here's the thing I don't get about Newton rings:

Newton rings appear because the layers of plastic in the slab are touching, and the types of plastic react optically in a sub-optimal manner. It seems like re-slabbing a comic with visible rings is a losing proposition, as the comic didn't get magically thinner and the slab didn't get magically bigger, so putting the same comic into an identical slab is going to eventually net the same result.

None of my CGC slabs have obvious rings, but all my recent slabs are modern books, which are thinner than Golden Age books and smaller dimensionally than Silver Age. The worst examples I have seen are all older books. So if CGC cared (which they obviously don't), it seems like they could reduce the frequency of Newton rings by using more appropriately sized slabs.

I could be totally off-base. But it seems like an easy solution, if expensive.

Originally Posted by Gaard
"It'll cost how much to fix? Yeah, that's not gunna happen. Let's just tell people that they're not a defect and that they should just accept them."

Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck
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They do, but it’s just an “olfactory illusion”.

Originally Posted by Nearmint67
@DrWatson Dang, that looks like an oil slick. Don't step in it...

Would some Dawn help clean that up?