Turn Around Times?4364

Originally Posted by Revelations
@RyanHicks

Look how many cons are running every year now. It's almost non-stop except for December/January when people are trying to recover from the holidays.

At this point, there's no forseeable reason for cbcs to not hire an apprentice to be part of their geading/encapsulation process. 4 months for moderns? Even before the hurricane, it was 3 months. I don't ever see cbcs catching up or surpassing cgc's turn around times. Unless they do something different, like hire, i don't see how they will get back to a 4 week TAT. Although I'm always hoping.

Originally Posted by Revelations
I don't think anyone is expecting them to hire an experienced grader off the street. It should be within their means to hire an apprentice at a couple bucks above minimum wage though.

Originally Posted by Gatchaman
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Originally Posted by Instant_Subtitles
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Originally Posted by Gatchaman
My books were shipped there in May, sat there for 1.5 weeks, and still NOTHING has been done with them, at all. I am now told that they will be done in 6-8 weeks. A local store sent these in and some were to be pressed. Nobody said anything about the pressed ones taking this long and holding up the rest of the order. They grade them all at once.

A store told me that they were warned about using this service. It's a no wonder why they were warned.

This does not encourage me to get books graded ever again.

Bonus points on being a 'Science Ninja Team' fan.

But overall, you need to remember that CBCS resides in Florida. Which was hit with a major storm, is trying to get operations as much back to normal as possible, and do have paid orders that require the same services as you have paid for. Stuff that your comic shop has failed to mention to you.

Your comic shop is not going to tell you things they do not know about. They do not have a complete list of who paid for what services, or what post-storm related issues that both CBCS and CGC are facing. Including those who are hired to press your comics, grade your comics, put your comics in archival wells, and finalize all of this with their slabs.

So all I can point out is that both CGC and CBCS are both in the general area of Florida that got hit hard. If you have a problem with them not being able to meet your schedule after everything they have faced, then you either have a problem or need to find something new to do.

As for your comic shop... I don't know. The LCS I am shifting to has a client that used to grade for CGC, and now wants to grade for CBCS. He had high praise for the fact they maintain their need to be consistent at how things are graded. And that is good enough for me to have my 14 year old comic that has no price guide listing and is virtually impossible to be replaced be graded by them.

And as for you... Remember that even Yoda told Luke to be patient when it comes to his own scenario. Because impatience leads to one making bad decisions. And in this case, you are relying on the word of a comic shop and not trusting CBCS just because you are choosing to be impatient.

So do yourself a favor and just trust CBCS. We all have been there with this type of scenario. And many those who are still there will tell you that you will be satisfied once you get your orders back.

I talked more with CBCS than the store. They are the ones that gave me most of the information. I am NOT being impatient. With their window time frame my books should have been done BEFORE the storm. They tooks weeks to check it in. CBCS told me that it is going to take another 6-8 weeks. That takes it to six months they will have the books. Not one of them have been graded yet.

Some of the books on the order are getting pressed. I know how to press books. Been doing it for years and done hundreds. I have a local Facebook group for comics who have been asking for a seminar to teach how to press. I probably going to do that so that people know how to press books and not have to wait weeks to get it done and have excuses of why they aren't and be told to be patient when this happens. They can do it themselves or anybody from the group can do it for them.

Six months it waaay to long to wait. Never again.

Originally Posted by shiftins6
Hire graders that just do moderns. You could teach a chimp to find the flaws on a new book.

Originally Posted by esaravo
Update on tat's.
I got an email today stating that the 20 comics that I submitted directly to CBCS at TerrifiC Con on August 19 have now been received by CBCS and will be placed in their vault to await grading. Hopefully, they will be back-dated to the Wednesday after the Con and be treated as having been received on August 21. So it is currently taking over a month (not counting days lost to holidays and hurricanes) to log in received comics.

Originally Posted by KingNampa
@spaulus @SteveRicketts My submission was delivered to CBCS the last week of August. No confirmation of receipt yet or update on my dashboard. I've sent emails and made calls to CBCS but still no resolution.

Invoice# 17-300D374

Please give me some of your customer service love, I'm feeling neglected.