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Thanks Lions Den, appreciate it

My second question was: "do they sometimes not mention color breaks with creases or spine stresses?" and that link did not address that, or any of my questions. Please, let's stop wasting our time on this. I am only taking the time to respond because I am new here and I don't want an unearned reputation that your posts imply.

Fantastic tutorial and I hope some of the sellers that have shipped me stuff see this and learn from it. I would just like to add a couple of things: 1. Use corrugated cardboard. Don't just cut up some random box and call it good enough. 2. Use strapping tape. 3. double box. Is this over doing it? You bet your sweet behind it is! Over doing it is my goal, anything less increases the chances of damage. Sometimes even "over doing it" still results in problems. At least you can say that you did everything you can to avoid damage.

Nope, it sure doesn't. That is the very first thing I read when I was trying to find the answers to my questions and it doesn't address ANY of my questions. I am not the type that is going to lazily just post questions. I have no problem trying to find the answers myself if I can.

Thanks Capra that is EXTREMELY helpful and clears everything up. I wish you worked for CGC or, at least, wrote the FAQ for GRADER NOTES and PRESSING on their website! :-)

Sorry, I am not sure what you mean by missing data points in this context.

It seems as if grader notes list defects in order of worst to least but maybe I am wrong. it would be good to hear it officially. I searched CGC's site and the internet and read everything I could find but nothing. In fact it seems as if every question I have about grader notes & pressing is NEVER answered when I search for them. They just go on and on about every common sense thing you could think of. Anyway.... Also do they sometimes not mention color breaks with creases or spine stresses? Seems like sometimes I see "CREASE, BREAKS COLOR" while other times they just say "CREASE" even though it looks as if there is the tiniest of a color break. I try to look at it with a magnifying glass but it's tough to tell through the case. One other thing I notice with the grader notes is that they seem to miss some fairly obvious things so is it that sometimes the list is not conclusive? If you get your comic pressed and then regraded do they look at the original notes and go for there or do they grade it again blindly? If they do it blindly it seems as if you could really get screwed if the original grader missed something.

With their OUTRAGEOUS commission rates I can't imagine selling there. Maybe if it was a really rare, really $$$$ comic? Even then?

Sure, anywhere you can think of is fine

Feel free to poke holes in this, this is just my take on where the highest prices seem to be coming for each era. This is mostly my experience as a buyer as I haven't done much selling. I have done quite a bit of research on Gocollect and GPA. One problem I know that both have is with eBay best offer sales. I sold a comic a couple years ago with the best offer option and the price listed on both Gocollect and GPA is $200 - $300 more than what I sold it for. I think they register the seller's first counter offer? The fixed price sales also seem out of whack but I am not positive about that. I ignore both. PLATINUM AGE - I HAVE NO CLUE GOLDEN AGE - COMICCONNECT (the percent of GA comics I win when bidding on CC seems to be the smallest) SILVER AGE - COMICLINK (the percent of SA comics I win when bidding on CL seems to be the smallest) BRONZE AGE - COMICLINK (the percent of BA comics I win when bidding on CL seems to be the smallest) COPPER AGE - EBAY? It seems to me that during the pandemic eBay has been getting some strong prices across the board but especially on copper and modern. I gave up on even searching for either on eBay. MODERN AGE - EBAY? It seems to me that during the pandemic eBay has been getting some strong prices across the board but especially on copper and modern. I gave up on even searching for either on eBay. Final thought - It seems like eBay has been fairly consistently bringing some very strong prices for Silver & Bronze ages during this pandemic. Maybe even a little better than ComicLink? Perhaps a bit lest consistent but I have seen some high GA prices as well. For some reason, it seems like eBay has seen the highest price increases since the pandemic began.