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Given the shipping and other fees folks in other countries have to deal with, I don't blame someone for starting it up. I'm curious as to why CGC hasn't strategically located themselves in other countries as well. But this has all of the PGX feeling to it. Now we just need to see his books listed from his own grading company....no conflict there.

There are no 9.8s....but after doing the constant "upgrade shuffle" it does help minimize purchases when you set the standards high enough The only consideration for 9.4/9.6 books are those in which there are no slabs in my inventory currently for the titles I'm 90%+ on. I actually sold a couple of 9.4s thinking I could snag the 9.8s in the market but kinda screwed that up. Yeah, my thoughts of the grade was post press--there's quite a bit of stuff that can be helped with one if you so choose.

$325, which is pretty healthy (but I've seen worse). Actually this was late July. Pretty much the first week I was observing the landscape again. I won't touch a copy unless it's a solid 9.8. Yours looks a like a 9.0/9.2 looking at the cover easy.

The interiors sometimes are a let down. There was a 9.6 CGC copy that sold a couple of weeks ago....[i passed on bidding].

I've never been able to watch the other hero shoes from ground up. I faded on Flash (although some of the shows I've seen looked interesting) so I'll go back to Season 1 before it starts up and give this a chance.

mschmidt: Thank you. For some reason I didn't see the alternate size. I'll recheck. I could, but then the information would only be known by me. Since this thread was so awesome, I figured it made sense to keep it relevant.

Has anyone confirmed that the mycomicshop and hotflip graded bags fit the new slab? I heard it was thicker. Also, can someone confirm that the Hotflips graded bags do NOT fit the "thicker" version of the previous generation slab (ie anniversary, 100 pagers, etc). Thanks.

I personally like the butthurt care package. Nice link OG!

No one took him up on stump the chump. :shrug:

According to this site, CGC is using Code 39 as its barcode format.

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.

I always want the unique serial number fo the books for insurance purposes. There's also the general notion that if I can lookup the certification number all other details about the book will be known....so...being lazy....reduced data entry requirements? There's no reason for CGC to do it, but as a lazy person I would love some software to do it. I generated a small -script that could pull that information in for me, so I guess I could just scrap ComicBase and roll my own. Scanning the barcode is ubiquitous anyway.

Yes it does. I did find some on eBay for $15 for USB based or $30 for bluetooth. The biggest "need" for me is for me to go into "batch create" mode and simply hit the boxes, scan the CGC number and populate my book from that. I'm guessing ComicBase doesn't do a lookup based on the cert number so all I have to do is literally scan does it? Basically like what they do if you scan the barcode on the comic itself. That's the dream.

^ Yeah, I've been dorking around with ComicBase. It's a tad intensive for me, and in reality my collection could be stored in the cloud. I do like the fact that it pulls down story information etc. ComicBase looked to me great for those that have a ton of issues and seemed like overkill for just cataloging my CGC collection. Bit I'm willing to give it a chance. I know it has custom fields, but for the money of the program they should have field type defaults depending on what type of comic collector you are and away you go (ie cover CGC folks out of the box). Can you tell me what type of bc scanner you're using? I tried using my laptop's camera for scanning the book, but that didn't work out too well. I've also tried the phone based ComicBase without good results either.

I'm curious if anyone is using either hand-held scanners and/or phone software to scan their CGC bar code to help with data entry, and if so, what software are they use for scanning and what software are they using to aid with this? I'm also curious as to what kind of bar code is being used. See this site for more information.

No, that guy doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm pretty sure he has a better understanding of what his books look like than me or you....elaborate?

Is this an example of what this puddling can do to a book? Or is this something else entirely? This is clearly not part of the new slab situation and I think is relevant to the discussion. This is all *NEW* to me since I've been out of pocket here since 2013. I am aware puddling has been around since the beginning (remember seeing a few in my collection).

The problem was between the user and they keyboard.

That is such a tough book in high grade. Congrats Reprint from 05? :shrug:

I was going to say the same thing. Totally forgot about Wrightson and Hulk.

I thought it was all "standard" myself.

History has proven itself once, and once is good enough for me. Avoid PGX, no problems.

Definitely. I'm glad for the efforts....and taking it from an idea to something useful.