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The Nanometer Crunch !!!!
Ed Hanes replied to Ed Hanes's topic in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues
maybe it was pressed by previous owner ...but I dont remember any 'crunch' upon receiving the raw..I did not use any pressing service -
The Nanometer Crunch !!!!
Ed Hanes replied to Ed Hanes's topic in Comic Book Grading and Restoration Issues
Useful information, thanks Perhaps I will just unslab it -
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When to slab, when to sell raw?
Ed Hanes replied to kcm54's topic in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions
You can try selling lots on MCS (for comics that cant be sold separately) at auction only...but you will not make your money back..but you will get something back. Ebay is fickle when it comes to non key raws...key raws do well on Ebay..but non key raws dont seem to do as well as their slabbed counterparts (from my experience)..and I think this has to do with the international market. -
When to slab, when to sell raw?
Ed Hanes replied to kcm54's topic in Newbie Comic Collecting Questions
A couple years ago I sent in about 250 books I thought could be a 9.8 (prescreen)..about 80 came back as 9.8. With the fees associated with slabbing/ prescreen and selling..I broke even. It was fun but I did not make any money. I basically got my money back on 80 comics. I also tried just sending in about 100 comics that I thought would be in the 9's ...I got back 100 comics in a wide range of grades from 5's to 9.4's..mostly in the 7 to 8.5 ranges...I lost a lot of money on that. I thought I was fairly decent in grading but there's a reason why professional graders get paid..they have a lot of experience. So unless you are a master at grading and are very familiar with how CGC grades...most likely you will not do well, financially speaking. But, it is a fun process and you will learn a lot -
Ed Hanes started following Can be frustrating being a collector and The Nanometer Crunch !!!!
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I don't know..I have always been under the impression that a crunch in a book (of any type) is a default that appears as 'folded in' as if it's been impacted ..maybe a crunch is something different to CGC. I am not seeing anything but a loosened splinter at the top of the spine ..are they calling that a crunch now...maybe a 'crunch' is something that can only be seen with CGC's supposedly new high powered microscopes they use for detecting insect damage...maybe they got an electron microscope and can see at the nanometer level anyway , I cant see any CRUNCH
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Three Body Problem on Netflix - Is there really no thread for this?
Ed Hanes replied to piper's topic in The Movie Forum
130 pages into the books...love it -
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Ed Hanes replied to piper's topic in The Movie Forum
First episode. very promising so far -
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I didnt check when I got it..I put my trust in them It was also number 52..no mention of cover oxidation when I bought it and number 123 loose at staple ..which I dont remember seeing but that can be very subjective If I do buy from them again I will make sure to check everything
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The difference here being... the grades that I offered were on the same books/same grades that MCS sold me just a couple months before. Any comics I send to them that I bought elsewhere I just trust their grading as I don't know otherwise. The main problem here is not the downgrading, it's the oversight of faults that they should have seen before they sold the first time around..fairly major faults that I have become accustomed to seeing them.. document before I buy. For example, I would not have bought issue 60 knowing it had a detached centerfold.
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Yeah, I am going to end up doing that myself..I usually never send in silver/bronze raws to MCS ..had a weak moment
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I understand the variance in giving specific grades WRT different people but to miss a detached centerfold , cover oxidation, and loose cover seems odd..especially since these are commonly listed faults on MCS grading (implies that the graders are especially trained in spotting these faults)...plus from what I have been told by MCS, they are supposed to be rechecked before final listing
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I have been buying/selling from MCS for five years now and for the most part have been very happy but something just happened that is making me question using them again I bought all of these in the past year from MCS. When I get them I open them up to check their condition and then put back in the bag and place them in my boxes. Last week I sent these back to sell (I bought all of these MCS). When I bought these from MCS, none of them had the faults that are stated now (and MCS did not state these faults) and my grading was based on their previous grading I asked MCS to return them UGH, first CGC let me down .. now, MCS
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