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YAY! Grades!!

I like White Ahh well - 102 "business days" later my books are graded and I am not just satisfied, but happy with my grades. Only two books - House of Mystery 133 (with a great octopus cover) - 9.0 White Tarzan 243 Western Penn (with a great shark cover) - 9.6 White While each is a single notch lower than I was hoping for, I mostly expected that the Tarzan was a 9.6 and not a 9.8...although I did anticipate that the House would be a 9.2 Now to wait for them to be verified and add th
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One long frustrating summer

2012... So this hasn't been my most productive summer as a collector - so many other obligations are wearing away on my finances that I have only added 9 silver age books since the 1st of May (although I do like them - eight raw Capt. Storms and the last go-go check Inferior 5 I needed already slabbed). There were no books that caught my interest were at EMCC to purchase - and of the three books I dropped off on April 1st, only the modern SS book is back and that with an unsatisfying grade (
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139 days later

... I'm scheduled for grading...Yay! Now after waiting all this time I'm no longer excited about my anticipated grades. Oh well, I should know in another 20 days or so. *fingers crossed*
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Seventeen Weeks

What has happened in the seventeen weeks since April 1st? Seventeen weeks ago (come Sunday the 29th of July - I won't be at my computer then since I will be at the ocean celebrating my birthday) at Emerald City ComiCon, I dropped off two packages of books with the CGC representative on-site - one SS modern book which I have received back (with a terrible grade), and a second package with one SA & one BA book. Since then... I have vacationed in New Orleans (twice). I have started six
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Really, CGC?

11 weeks... So I take a beautiful, 9.6 or 9.8 copy of a modern book to ECCC in March, I have it signed, and although I'm not a big fan of the signature series books I decide I will go ahead and have this one book certified... The book, with it's crisp edges and sharp corners, is signed by BILL SIENKIEWICZ, and then immediately handed over to the CGC rep, who carries it back to the booth. I wait 11 weeks. And I get a 9.2?!? Really?!? If I get my book back and it has a pizza stain, because t
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Autograph Wish List

sort of... I wish that the lone, modern, signature series book that I had signed at Emerald City ComicCon in March would get graded. end of list. LeeK
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Registry Award Ticker

Am I the one that needs a ticker? Is it possible, that the best use of a ticker would be in the grading area at CGC? A huge ticker that reads out how many days the oldest order has been there for each tier? I would love to have my new books added to my registry sets before the 6 Days and 22 Hours run out - but they've only been with CGC since the 4th of April - 63 days (or 45ish business days) so there isn't any chance I will see them before my birthday at the end of July - and probably not
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Emerald City CC

It is that time again... and as always the real question is: do I have the money to go? I hope to - and if I do, I intend to go Sunday only like I did last year. I know, I know, I'll miss some of the hoopla - but I will be able to move, and I should be able to get to the boxes of comics I want to see (raw copies of Strange Adventures)... Plus, even though their piles of pages and sketches have been picked over, I'll have a better opportunity to enjoy talking to the artists themselves...an
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Business Day 75

I'm finally 'Shipped Safe' Economy turn around time - in the off season is 75 business days (not counting Thanksgiving [2 days], Christmas, New Years, MLK Jr Day [whether they observe it or not], President's Day, or the friday before Wizard World New Orleans)...yeah, that's right my comics were received before Thanksgiving, 11/17/2011 to be precise. If my math is right, that's 115 calendar days...by the time I receive my books (UPS Ground) I haven't seen my books in a third of a year...it's k
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Scheduled for Grading

67 business days today Or for those of us using a Gregorian calendar, 103 actual days since my books were received. In the 27 business days that have elapsed since my target shipped safe day, 41 calendar days have elapsed - that is to say the entire month of February and 12 days of January. All I can do now is hold my breath and hope that they go from Scheduled to Graded to Shipped Safe in less than 19 calendar days, otherwise my books will have been in Florida for a third of a calendar ye
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End of business day 62

Really? And my silver age books are still sitting at Verified. I'm beginning to wonder if they've been forgotten or misplaced. 1/6th of a year...
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Car 54 Where Are You?

OK - day 54, not car 54... And as my SA submission enjoys its 54th business day at CGC and I'm still verified. Hmmm.
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Is today a 'business day'?

Or not? Wizard World New Orleans is this weekend, so is that a major con? If it wasn't for my cosplay friends in NOLA I wouldn't know about it at all, so if it isn't on my radar, could it possibly be significant enough to count as a work stoppage day for CGC? I don't care one way or the other - I'm just trying to track how many business days my regular SA submission has been in Florida and I don't know if I should count today or not. I think I am going to not count it - just because. Le
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Big Corporations Back Down

CGC doesn't In response to negative feedback from their customers, both Verizon Wireless and Bank of America scrap plans to add 'additional charges' to their existing fee structures. Bank of America's was originally to be a $5 fee per month for having a debit card, and Verizon Wireless' was a $2 fee every time you pay your bill on-line using the 'one time only' payment option. CGC's website still says that there will be a $5 handling fee per invoice - in truth it says it four times on one p
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Scheduled for...

something, I don't know what or when But, it's business day 36 on my modern submission - and I appreciate that everyone deserves vacations, particularly around the holidays - maybe to go to Florida and get some sun (OK kidding - but I'm a long way from the sun). On the other hand I've been scheduled for grading for days now and I'm wearing out my keyboard looking to see if my grades are in - because I am totally impatient. Oh well....
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Merry Christmas

even you Marvel collectors Everyone, seriously, Merry Christmas to you - whether you are a registry member or an employee of CGC (cause I know you guys read this stuff). Here's to another year of collecting and good fellowship to all. Lee K
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Are modern submissions coming back faster?

No, probably not... As I reach the end of day 31 on my current modern submission, I am forced to look back and see when my last modern submission was graded. On day 30. Now the current submission could take fewer than 5 business days to go from Graded to Shipped Safe and then my overall process could be faster...but I'm not counting on it - the last submission spent 5 days at Scheduled for Grading and I'm not even there yet. Oh well...
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These are the Days of Our Lives

Submissions waiting to be graded over another weekend... So I had two modern submissions and one economy submission at CGC this past month plus... Yesterday was day 41 for the first modern submission and I received my books back. Today is day 29 for the other modern submission and it is still 'verified' Today is day 19 for the economy submission - and it is 'verified' as well. Those are business days, not calendar days and they don't include national holidays... oh well. Lee
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Five dollars! Five dollars! Five dollars!

it sounds like the sky is falling... While my position on the $5 per invoice fee hasn't changed; that is I am still upset about it and I still think it is a poor business decision as it weighs unfairly on the small collector that cannot afford to submit 30 books on an invoice; I am surprised by the passion that it has stirred in others. In review, I submitted ten invoices this year - two coupon submissions, one signature series, on silver age, and six modern. I have no idea if the $5 charge
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Registry & Journal

Because my wife helps me with other measurements... Registry & journaling...here - as opposed to Histank or Live Journal or wherever... Well, hell, I really enjoy the registry, because I love seeing what other people love and collect, not from some need to beat my chest like some jungle dwelling comic character of days gone by (not that I wouldn't collect all those jungle books if I had the $$$ to do so) - but, more than that, I enjoy seeing what everyone else collects. In my time jour
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I have an idea

Maybe... Just maybe it would be more appropriate for persons with no registered sets and who don't appear to have any participation in the registry to comment on the chat boards in Comics General and leave those of us who enjoy journaling with out the vituperative nastiness that accompanies any opinion on the chat boards alone. Happy Hunting Lee
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Behind advertised schedule; Inconsistant of grade; Price increase

Sounds a lot like a business plan for failure I appreciate that the advertised turn-around times are guidelines, estimates, round figures, as it were, and that certain calendar days are excluded. But this summer has exposed a chronic inability to perform at a level that is close to the advertised times. We're well into fall and my most recent modern submission went to 'shipped safe' on business day 35. My current submission is on 'verified' on business day 23. I appreciate that any book r
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Grades

Not what I expected at all... So I sent in a package of 10 moderns for my Justice League fix and today (that is day 30) my grades popped up. Now, I selected each of these books carefully but I know I'm not perfect and often I'll send in a book that comes back 9.6 and I don't fuss over that too much. All my books have to be shipped by Diamond to the west coast via UPS, and often they are banged up by the time my LCS gets them...but I still choose carefully. Oh, and somehow I grabbed the '
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2011 Failure

yep, I had a goal and it got away from me... I had high hopes at the beginning of the year of reaching the 25% point on my go-go check collection, something that would require 132 books from the 527 book set. Time and money (and a new car) have kept me from getting as close as I would like - I am 19 books short, with 1 book at CGC that I won't get back till 2012. My other goal for 2011, was to acquire one, or more, of the key go-go check books and there I was sucessful in adding Batman 181
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