rponton

Good evening all, I am very new to the graded world. I was the collector that poo-pooed slabbing books for years because to me, the point of collecting a comic was its intrinsic value as a READABLE collection. I have grown past that, and now have embraced slabbed books. I own a few and have 41 books at CGC right now. I'm also starting to buy them. So. Where do you like to buy them? There have to be better, more reliable and higher quality places to list books for sale and also books to buy than eBay. Where would you go to buy and also sell slabbed books? I have books that run the gamut from FF#1 up through rando ASM books from the 90's, so the spread is wide. Opinions?

@ADAMANTIUM I run a business shipping fragile items all over the country. If you have ever had to argue the insured value of a damaged item, you'd understand my trepidation. Sending ungraded books in the mail? Try convincing the adjuster at the USPS that this pile of paper was worth "X" amount of dollars. At least on the return shipping they will have been graded and the historical documentation CGC has on graded book sales will be useful in an insurance claim. This whol exercise is built around my mistrust of the shipping people.

@ramrodcar I do trust the process, or I wouldn't even consider it. I've submitted through a con in the past for a book I had signed at that con. There is a difference between: -Handing a book over to an identified employee of the bonded company that will be handling my book, which I did at the con (trusting the system) *OR* -Emailing some person I found on the list of authorized dealers, with an area code inconsistent with where his business is, no address on the website, not much in the way of public reviews of the business and having him tell me to meet him in a strip mall parking lot and pay the fees with PayPal's "friends and family". There's not a major red flag here, but about a zillion little things that make me nervous. And I want to be clear, I am in no way making any accusation of fraud here. The person I spoke to seems very knowledgeable and like a nice person, but it behooves me to be cautious and to check the process against other folks' experiences.

Good afternoon all, I am in the process of having several books submitted to CGC. I am concerned with shipping them to CGC because I don't trust shipping people. I will be in Sarasota at the end of the month. I am already aware that I cannot drop books off to CGC directly (I called and asked them) That brings me to the question of finding someone local that is an authorized dealer. There are a few. Has anyone here used any of them? Your feelings? experiences? Gut checks/ etc? Obviously, we don't grade our trash, so these are items I place a certain value on, either financial or personal value. Are there dealers in the Sarasota area that are preferred? I would love your thoughts.

Good evening all! I've got a FF1. Looking to get it CGC'd. I would guess it's in the 1.0 range, maybe a 1.5. Ballpark, what do you anticipate the cost to get it done will be?