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Originally Posted by Odvar
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Originally Posted by JWKyle
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Originally Posted by Odvar
They may have ran into legal issues SO FAR, but doesn't mean that they can't adjust within an agreement to take on a competitors slab if they both come to the table based on a competitors agreement. It would be like CGC wouldn't appreciate their slabbed comic being submitted to CBCS that may hold very specific ways of encapsulating (who knows) or something like that if there really is much of a difference. It's like McDonalds trying to figure out a competitors secret sauce. Anyways, this doesn't mean that they can't come to an agreement based on competition, which would mean they would have to pump out more money for advertisement and give better benefits to their loyal members. However, this could be good because it may allow both CGC and CBCS to combine an accurate directory of graded census. The reason being is that if CGC has 200 graded comics of a specific issue and CBCS has 40, it would potentially allow someone to be more inclined to get their book graded by CBCS knowing that there are only 40 graded issues by them without taking into consideration the CGC census. What does this have to do with handing over another company's slab to be graded by another? Well, if someone were to do such a thing and it became very common, then it would double the amount of comics graded on a census and confuse the market where the book is constantly circulated through buyers. Also, you can't exactly have someone take out a comic that is slabbed just to submit it. That would be ridiculous. So, I am pretty sure this is connecting the dots and we will see something very interesting in the future with cross over grading of slabs and a combined directory for a census.

I hope your wrong on this I don't want CBCS to have any connection to the CGC census or registry. CBCS's product should be able to stand on it's own without piggy backing on the competition. I think they were giving the 50 cent discount to help people start switching over their slabs. Keep in mind if you sent in a CGC slab to cbcs more then likely they sent the old label back to CGC so the competition could update their census or Steve Borock may have made a ceremonial Indian head dress with the labels. Either way I want CBCS to stay away from being tied to CGC in any way. CGC doesn't seem to want to play nice CBCS should follow suite and not tie anything about then to CGC. Other then the fact seems like a lot of the people at CBCS has a history with CGC.

That much of a discount would not be enough to gain people to switch their CGC slab over to CBCS, and then have CBCS pay shipping and handling to send it back to CGC. When a company's product ends up in the hands of another company and they have their hands on it while taking it apart, then it would become a legal issue. To alleviate such thing, they would have to come to the table with an agreement to alleviate waste and costs.

Originally Posted by Odvar
Basically I couldn't find where I had found that option, but someone says they may have started doing that for a short period. Who knows.

Originally Posted by Odvar
@JWKyle Whoa there, I wasn't saying that it happened. I was just making a theory based on why I couldn't find the part where CBCS was saying they would take in CGC slabs.

Originally Posted by Odvar
Well, I am reading now where CGC is claiming that while they do get their slabs from a third party, like CBCS does, there are certain modifications that are made to ensure that only CGC can open them based on special tools used specifically BY CGC. This means that if you bring it into another facility, that facility would have to have the same tools to open that signature method without damaging such property. It's the method of usage and the possibility of having tools in your possession as a company that you may be using. Not saying that CBCS is doing this, but CGC would definitely file a suite to make sure of this at any cost to limit competition. Even if you get slabs from third parties, they can still sue for methods used on their specific method of slabbing that is exclusive to a company.

Originally Posted by Odvar
Well, I am reading now where CGC is claiming that while they do get their slabs from a third party, like CBCS does, there are certain modifications that are made to ensure that only CGC can open them based on special tools used specifically BY CGC. This means that if you bring it into another facility, that facility would have to have the same tools to open that signature method without damaging such property. It's the method of usage and the possibility of having tools in your possession as a company that you may be using. Not saying that CBCS is doing this, but CGC would definitely file a suite to make sure of this at any cost to limit competition. Even if you get slabs from third parties, they can still sue for methods used on their specific method of slabbing that is exclusive to a company.

Originally Posted by shrewbeer
@DarthLego they really glued all four sides? Isn't that a huge no-no in terms of comics drowning in their own gas?

Originally Posted by Odvar
Is this from their old slabs?