Price Guide says $20; I say we don’t need no steenking
price guides! Buy more than one item this week and all items after the first
ship for only 25 cents postage per item. Buy in bulk; save like the Hulk!
Let’s talk grading for a second. Excuse the rant, but slabbing comics is the
biggest scam in the history of collecting.
I know several major dealers who have sent in big ticket books, been
disappointed with the grade, unslabbed the books, resubmitted them, and got a
different grade that was more to their liking. Want more proof? Last year at a
convention, 4 dealers with 120+ years of grading experience looked at a book
and agreed that it was a 5.5-6.5. We all compromised at 6.0. The buyer submitted the book to CGC and some
jack leg who probably hasn’t been alive as long as any of the four dealers
graded it a 3.5.
I have been grading books for 40 years and if you look
at my feedback, you will see that almost always my customers are very satisfied
with my grading. However none of that is important for several reasons, but the
number one reason is …….. wait for it ……..
GRADING IS SUBJECTIVE. I
absolutely refuse to argue with any customer on a $25 price guide book that he
bought on line for $10, and he wanted a $3 partial refund because I had grade
the book Fine and he thought it was a VG+ at best! (Yes, this actually
happened). Yet I have been selling books online since 1997 and never once has
someone sent me more money because he thought I had under graded a book (go
figure).