CGC knowingly damaging books?20972

Originally Posted by GAC
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Originally Posted by chester15
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Originally Posted by flanders
I voted 3 check marks for having retrieved it, washed it in the toilet, then swallowed it.

I should have left an option for custom responses,

You can still update your post to add option 3.

Originally Posted by chester15
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Originally Posted by ComicNinja0215
Speaking of toilets; has a anyone heard anything else from cgc?

CGC is worse than a toilet. It's a PAY toilet (do those still exist?)

Originally Posted by Nuffsaid111
A little birdie told me there might be a CBCS banana promo code for big time savings?

Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley
In 2012, I slowly got back into collecting and reading comics. Mostly finished off a few series I had sporadically worked on over the years like the three main Punisher titles from the late 1980s-mid 1990s and a working my way through some of the IDW Transformers titles I had been collecting. While looking on ebay, I saw listings of CGC-graded comics. I wasn't sure what it was and went to an LCS when I came home on leave in 2013. The store owner explained it to me and said he could submit on my behalf and helped me parse through a few issues to find stuff that would be higher grade. So that was my first CGC submission.

In 2015, I met a friend through my Wednesday night bowling league who was into comics. He invited me over one day and showed me the process for submissions and setting up an account with the CGC. It seemed easy enough. I paid for the cheapest tier because I didn't know how much I would submit but I started with a few books and then it was like dozens or some shit. I don't remember the exact amount. Also, in 2015, I found out about CBCS and submitted here as well. It was less expensive at the time for submissions plus I didn't need to purchase an account to submit.
Whenever the creep engine/Frankenslab debacle occurred at CGC was when my submissions to CGC ground to a halt. I called and had them cancel orders and send my books back. I had some books that Dick Pontoon or Ditch Fahrenheit had used in a video to show what was happening. All those books were sent to CFP for a crack and press before Joe sent them to CBCS. Only through divine intervention did the books make it to CBCS since they have a long track record of losing/stealing books. That last sentence was sarcasm.

Fast forward to mid 2018 and I'm back from an Afghanistan deployment. I decide to take a chance on a CGC submission again. As far as I could tell, things were ok. Since 2018, I don't think I've submitted more than 30 books to CGC. Bananagate is probably it for me. Between creep engine, warped wells, the misappropriation of comics by employees, and the complete lack of accountability from anyone involved, I don't see myself using the product again. Trust your gut, gentlemen (and the probably four females on the boards).

Now at the risk of coming off like a moron or a twat, I might still buy a CGC slab, but I typically look for the CBCS version first. I have a great career, so I'm also not in this to flip the flavor of the week. I know that some of the flippers/Vollidioten will publicly be upset with CGC while quietly sending their wares to them, and that's their choice. Most likely, I'll continue using CBCS. That isn't to say that CBCS hasn't had its faults. Oh Lord, there were a few. Customer service probably still needs to be unfu**ked but I've yet to have the CS problems others have had. On the other hand, I prefer my personal property to not get messed up by negligence or malice. My choice is clear (see what I did there).

That may have been one of my more well-thought-out posts on the forum. I wouldn't expect more of that.

Originally Posted by Jgwalters100
Well that is true. If I had to pay to piss I would piss wherever. There not getting me for a toilet on top of all the other taxes and fees.

Originally Posted by ComicNinja0215
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Originally Posted by Jgwalters100
Well that is true. If I had to pay to piss I would piss wherever. There not getting me for a toilet on top of all the other taxes and fees.

Amen, I thought this was america.