RonS2112

This really strikes me as an attempt to paint CGC as a victim here, while simultaneously shifting the onus of protection onto the customer. Makes my decision to let my susbsription lapse seem even more sound. To describe themselves as "a target" is shameful -- to be clear, their customers were the targets. CGC was an enabler, as a result of their shoddy quality control.

Well, yeah.....and at the risk of stating the obvious, parsing the difference between a 9.6 and a 9.8 should be a pretty exact science and therefore should ALWAYS have notes associated.

Lots of assumptions here. I'd think it's more likely that IF a regrade is appropriate, and IF that regrade results in a difference then CGC will reimburse the difference. No one is getting a free book.

1. Invest some money in a few IH 181's and ASM 300's, making sure to buy low. 2. Sell high. 3. Go to Step 1.

Being smart? If there’s anything like a sure bet in making money in this hobby, these two books are it.

Go to a local con and watch the total lack of movement of slabbed modern books. What you describe is already happening.

I know this comment is intended as tongue-in-cheek, but offering a free pedigree label for these books would be a really cheap, quick way for CGC to create value which might help compensate the owners of these affected books.

The amount of modern cr*p encased in slabs these days would indicate that this number is pretty low indeed.

Why would you think it would/should be HARD for anyone who had precise knowledge of the technique for opening a slab? I mean, it's not like CGC employees doing reholdering want to use a hammer to get a book out of a slab. THere was ALWAYS going to be an easy way to get a book out that presented low risk to the book itself. And if you think about it, it took YEARS for one technique to be made public. Like it or not, this sort of thing is often times the cost of doing business on a large scale.

And you must have fallen asleep when the pictures were shown of a Hulk 181 with a Blue 9.0 label that nonetheless looked like it had been run over by a car a few times.

I've read all 201 pages so far. Anyone looking at the ASM 252 that started all this -- including the CGC worker who did the re-slabbing -- should/could have taken one look at the book attached to that 9.8 and realized something was up. And the vast majority did not notice anything until it was pointed out to them. To the tune of "hundreds of books." But now, EVERYONE is pro, and has some slam to make on the quality of the slabs......85 million units later.

If it does, it's only because this one comes on the heels of a singulary pronounced era of greed and laziness in this hobby. And it's part of a perfect storm of the MCU imploding and creators fighting with each other over how comics are written. If you've got money to spend on comic books, the next few years are going to be a good time.

You gotta love snarky comments like this. How many of you drank the Koolaid and bought into the idea that your comics were slabbed, sealed and impervious to age for all eternity, only to freak out when your own unrealistic expectations have proven unfounded? The golden rule of "buy the book, not the grade" is there for a reason, but it seems many of you forgot that.

I perfectly get it. Read your own words -- if it's not within CGCs domain, it CERTAINLY isn't within yours. No one owes you a thing. And here's a bit of news. If it is "only" six figures, then there's a good chance that the FBI won't waste the time to prosecute this; it simply isn't worth the time it would take.