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Originally Posted by SteveRicketts
We are currently finishing up the redesign of the comic slab. Once that has been launched, the magazine slab should follow using the same, although larger, design as the comic slab. I don't know the timeline, but the last word I heard was that the mag holder was certainly going to happen.

Originally Posted by SteveRicketts
When you see the new comic slab announced, I think the mag slab will be at least 3 to 6 months behind it.

Originally Posted by SteveRicketts
It boils down to this. The mold for the mag holder will cost about $50k, that's not including the cost of design. Even if we position the price for mag service where we could net $10 per book, we'd have to slab 5,000 magazines before we made a single dollar.

"I have 5" and "I can get 10 slabbed" is demand, but it's a trickle compared to the comic market. Magazines, while very collectible, by an large are not expensive to get into. Aside from a few key issues, the vast bulk of magazines, even in high grades, are extremely affordable. For us to make $10 per book, we'd probably have to charge close to $30 for the base tier. It's exponentially more costly for us to grade magazines because they have a LOT more pages to count, the raw material of the case would cost us more, and they are more expensive to ship.

Throw in the fact that, as obscure of a niche market as they were in the '70s, they're all but gone from the new comic book market, so it's not like there is renewable interest in the product.

I'd love to offer the product. I am a huge magazine collector and have been pushing for us to do this since we opened, but as a businessman, I do know that there has to be logic behind the decision. And that logic has to include making money, not throwing it away.

As I said before, I think it will happen, but that may be my heart talking instead of my head. I sure hope we do.

Originally Posted by kaptainmyke
2. They are going to stop honoring Stan Lee ASP and VSP signatures. How does this effect all the constant incoming submissions and what are you going to do about the "cut off" transition?

Originally Posted by kaptainmyke
3. Is there going to be a new case design next year, yet again?

Originally Posted by SteveRicketts
@shrewbeer I do believe it will happen, but explained the obstacle we have to overcome with it. If we could charge $50 per and have an unending supply of submissions, it would be a no-brainer and would have happened 4 years ago.

I'm certainly on the front lines trying to make it happen.

Originally Posted by BigRedOne1944
Will the New slab design do away with the "Corner Clips"?

Originally Posted by antoniofett
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Originally Posted by GAC
Please keep your labels, they look awesome and clean!! By far the best labels on the market...changing colors doesn't bother me too much (VSP reds to something else is cool) but CBCS labels look fantastic!!!

I vote for sliver!