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Mephisto

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  1. I just don't care because Rey became such a trainwreck of a character in the last trilogy along with many of the other characters. I have no desire to see anymore of their stories.
  2. Are there really good ones? The eBay authentication ones for cards are a joke. I've had ones that I have peeled with no care at all that peeled perfect with no damage to the sticker at all.
  3. Yup same they did with not being able to get the card end of CGC correct from day 1. The cases themselves are very nice but having a CGC brand and CSG brand along with 3 different label changes in just a few years was mind boggling stupid business. They were at least able to get loyalists to take advantage of all the holder changes with specials to get all their slabs uniform. Not to mention they changed their grading scale a bit further getting people to reslab their card. i just couldn’t get over how poorly run the card division was form the start. I said from the start it never made business sense to have CGC and CSG as separate companies. Well that was obviously a correct observation because it didn’t take all that long for the two to combine. Nice clear slabs weren’t enough for me to look past all the obvious incompetence. I also happened to notice the CGC card end of the business being publicly involved with someone that is super shady in the collectibles arena and that was the absolute final death knell for me not put their slabs in my collection. However, I can’t tell you the number of people I saw on message boards (not the CGC boards) talking about how they would take advantage of the limited time special to upgrade to the current labels.
  4. Worse case scenario is what many have said happens sooner than expected and Blackstone finds they’ve made what they can from this CGC acquisition and it’s no longer as profitable as they like and dump it. With a nearly $160 Billion market cap Blackstone can dig CGC out of whatever mess this winds up being as long as they actually find it profitable in the end to do so.
  5. It’s all about previous high quality previous images existing. Before Ewert there was the Batman 11 on Heritage I posted was a nice resin that saw a small bump in grade and big jump in sales price. Being a Golden Age boom it was easy to identify it was the exact same copy. Hammer pointed out the book was missing some of its edge compared to the previous auction image. CGC determined someone had trimmed it and then aged the trimmed edges to hide the recent trimming. I think one of the theory was throwing a blow dryer on the trimmed edges. I had been collecting Golden Age Batman and Detective books and after that incident I actually did jump ship after that incident and moved on to art. If you ever play on the sports card section of the Blowout forums there are numerous threads outing sellers who trim and bleach cards and submit them to grading companies undetected. The boards do a good job of identifying the cards in previous slabs with now shorter boarders etc. The vintage cards are easier to identify as the card board on the backs of them often have tell tale marks to basically prove it’s the exact same card that is now rocking a shorter boarder. There is one collector that runs a database so you can search for a card and check the cert number of any previously identified manipulated cards before making any purchases.
  6. I just meant if I was going the raw buying route Bob would be at the top of my list. He’d check to see if the MVS was in a Hulk 181, probably do just as good if not better restoration check as any 3rd party grader and every raw book I have ever bought from him has had spot on grading.