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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Heat Seal  |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC In Shipping WooHoo!!! Can't see Grades yet. |
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| Reached out to customer service and to Wade but haven't heard anything yet. | ||
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 I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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| @GAC good luck with getting better results this time. | ||
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| @flanders Thanks! I think/hope I will barring anything catastrophic in the book that I didn't check.....we shall see. | ||
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 I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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| After two weeks in “Heat Seal” hell, my books went from “Encapsulation” to “Shipping” today! Hopefully they will get shipped out by tomorrow (so I can peak at the grades). | ||
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I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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| @esaravo don't peek, that's no fun. | ||
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I live in RI and Rhode Islanders eat chili with beans.
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Quote:Originally Posted by flanders I think the longest I’ve ever waited was less than 48-hours. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo Well, it's time to break that record Ed. Trust me, it's worth it. Once you do a blind box opening, you'll never look at your grades online again. It's so anticlimactic to see your grades pop up on a screen. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC Shipped! Yay! I am satisfied with these results. Ghost Rider 1: 6.5 X-Men 130: 6.5 Man-Thing 1: 6.5 I should hit the slots! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by GAC I'm very annoyed now....I didnt check the Graders Notes until just now. All I saw was Blue Certification and Grade....it appears my Ghost Rider 1 is Restored. Piss me right off! Ghost Rider #1 Marvel2 1967 Variant: Pedigree: 6.5 Certified Off-White Restored - Amateur - Slight Signees: Amateur Restoration Includes: Small amount of color touch on cover. Notes: small ballpoint pen color touch to spine stress on spine, does not bleed spine stress & 2 tiny scrapes lower spine breaks color front cover very tiny edge wear & few small creases to cover breaks color front cover few dirty fingerprints middle left back cover This is why I hate buying raw books! |
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| @GAC ahhhhhh!!!!! | ||
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| My other book had light bends in Graders notes....I don't like seeing that when Pressing was purchased. | ||
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| Not all non-color breaking creases can be pressed out, apparently. I have been told that by a couple of pressers. I have a NCB on the back of my X-Men 48 and thought the same thing as you. I was going to ask Ricketts about it, but never did. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson I'm sure you're right...I'm just ticked off at my GR 1 Restored...of the 3 books I got Graded/Pressed, that was the one I liked best...oh well. These are the Notes for my Man-Thing #1. I was hoping bends and indents are removed by Pressing but as you say, that's not always the case. Notes: spine stress & tiny wear top & bottom spine breaks color front cover bends & indents to cover does not break color few very small light foxing spots spine & slight soiling back cover 1.5" crease along spine breaks color front cover |
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| You even get those in the notes for books graded by the cgc. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson I fully expect CGC Pressing to add damage captured in the Graders Notes. lol. It's totally cool. I know there are some bends that don't come out. |
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| Since Saturday, FedEx has said that they would deliver my books today. All day their app has said it would be delivered between 10:30 AM and 2:30 PM. Because a signature is required, I have been held hostage in my house all day. It’s now almost 8:00 PM, and no package, and when I check the FedEx app it says “We’ll add a delivery date when your package starts moving.” Why did it say it would be delivered today? Great, now I get to do this all over again tomorrow. | ||
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| Yep, I've had that happen more than once. Are you close to a drop off point? I had one of mine delivered to a Dollar General store. I won't do that again. Get the FedEx app and you can stalk the delivery van with gps. |
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| @GAC That ballpoint pen on the spine. I wouldn't even call that restoration. Other color breaking areas weren't colored in. I call that that pen ink on cover and grade it accordingly. I might even take an exacto knife and remove it. | ||
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| FedEx sucks! Still no package. Their app said it would be delivered today between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM. That time has passed, so it now says before the end of the day. Complete BS. This is why I use USPS 95% of the time. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by DrWatson I appreciate this! I may consider it when my book comes. This makes me feel better about the book. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by esaravo Can you track his location using the GPS? I've done that twice and intercepted the truck and asked the guy to get my package because I had to go to work. |
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| The package finally arrived! I am going to scan the slabs now and then post them here shortly. I must say that the packaging by CBCS's shipping department was top notch. @DrWatson - I don't see on the app where you can track the location of the FedEx truck. |
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| First, here's my original post with the raw books: Quote: Originally Posted by esaravo |
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| All scans were done using my ancient HP Scanjet 8300 using VueScan software (it won't work any other way). Anyway, I obviously didn't get them back before Christmas, but it's before Valentine's Day! Looking at my grade predictions, I thought before pressing the X-Men #121's were 9.0 and 9.2, and the X-Men #130 was a 9.2. I figured after pressing the lowest grade would be a 9.2. I was wrong. According to the grader's notes for #130, there are "light fingerprints/soiling left back cover" that I totally missed (and still can't really see). That bumped the grade down a bit, and the pressing didn't seem to affect the grades of the other two books at all. Maybe I was too optimistic.       I don't like the waviness of the inner well on that last scan. Any comments CBCS reps? The other 4 books will be coming up in a few minutes. |
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I had predicted pre-pressing grades of 9.4 for both X-Men #134 and #141, and had the last two books at 9.6. I had hoped that the pressing would produce at least one 9.8 from this bunch. Yes, it did, so in this case it appears that the pressing was worth it for at least 3, and possibly all 4 of these books.        Several of these books will be available for trade (if anyone is interested I would be looking for graded ASM, X-Men, and SA Adventure Comics). |
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