mshelton1984

I have the book in hand now. Doesn't look like it was handled with much care during either the pressing or grading process. Lots of small little areas of wear that weren't there before. It now has 3 small color breaking spine ticks and color rub on the back cover at both staples. The book was a still bagged Ultimate Fallout 4 that I removed from the polybag and checked thoroughly before sending in. There was no color loss on the back cover. At least it does appear to have been pressed and all the pressable defects were improved. Also concerning is the inner well. It seems smaller than it should be and moves around in the slab when titled. Never seen this before. In all my other CGC graded books the inner will fits tightly and doesn't move.

This order finally shipped today. Unfortunately it shows "Unavailable" under grader notes and the book only received a 9.4. It looked like an easy 9.8 assuming the small non-color breaking ticks were pressed out (at minimum 9.6), so no grader notes to explain this is disappointing.

That sounds great! Thanks for your help.

I have a Modern Fast Track submission that was shipped to CGC in March (marked as received on April 6th) and the status has been stuck on "CCS in Process" for months. I have contacted support multiple times, but they just give me the run around with canned responses and estimated turn around times (that seem to keep getting longer each time). Is there anyway to actually confirm that my submission is being processed and not lost? Even with the current backlog 7 months for fast track that still hasn't even made it to grading seems insane. The order number is CGC7592119704.

When should I start worrying about a book sent for CCS Fast Track that CGC marked received on April 6th but no updates since. That's getting close to 60 business days (more like 75 if the delivered to date counts for TAT). I don't remember what the exact TAT was for Fast Tracked pressing in early April, but I think it was less than 60 days and I've seen other members posting their CCS Fast Track books received a week or two after mine that were sent for grading already.

The package now shows as delivered. Seems I was worried over nothing. If anyone else is in the same boat I recommend just waiting it out since USPS will hold the parcel for 2 weeks or so before returning it to sender. Seems like the post office either holds shipments sent to CGC for a few days until a stockpile builds up so they can do a single larger delivery, or more than likely they're just really behind with the backlog.

Contacted USPS and all they could tell me is the package is at the Sarasota post office waiting to be picked up since the 13th. They did say a different name instead of CGC though. I think it was NSG, but I may have misheard. Should I try the Schedule Redelivery option?

I have a submission that has been waiting to be picked up at the post office by CGC since the 13th (tracking # 9405509205568301393122). Now the status just changed to "Delivery Attempt: Action Needed" and says it will be returned to me if not picked up by the 27th. This is my first submission so I'm not very knowledgeable of the process. What do I do in this situation?

Should have aired like that.

Weird, I haven't experienced that. I have a box of those round Avery labels that are over a decade old. Still look new.

Doesn't seem like a big deal. If someone offers you a very low price just decline. Or better yet, set up a threshold that will auto decline any offer lower than a specific number so you won't even have to respond. Low ball offers will not hamper your ability to get fair market value in any way. And don't take it personally. For them, it's just a numbers game. They know 95% of their offers will be declined. It's that 5% that do accept for whatever reason that make it worthwhile. I've made quite a few of what I consider to be "low ball" offers (around 40-50% lower than asking). Not that many actually decline. They either make a reasonable counteroffer (what I was shooting for to start with) or flat out accept, which is always a nice surprise.

Just had someone send me a message on a book I have listed with a BIN asking if I would be interested in selling through a Paypal invoice. Obviously that's not allowed and I would lose what little seller protection eBay offers so I'm not responding, but should I block him as well?

Nice, a happy ending! Anyone else use those jumbo size rural mail boxes? I installed one recently and it's so much less stressful. No worries about carriers bending deliveries in half because their to lazy to knock on the door and it can even fit the bigger boxes for graded books.