Red Hook
10-11-2008, 10:22 PM
....in the middle of a train wreck of a thread "over there"....
"With great power comes great responsibility."
When CGC first came out, I was quite pleased, I thought this was and would be a great thing for comics. It would protect the buyer on online sites such as ebay where we would not have to rely on bad grading, we would get a third party grading company that would be unbiast.
CGC books that were getting high grades started to get very high premiums, maybe a lot higher than people realised or thought.
I believe this was good for the hobby and comics flourished. Some few years later, prices dropped, less books were getting graded? (not sure)
So we changed the labels, let's see how many re-subs this will get us.
The higher powers decided to make a bigger thing of the pressing, this would then encourage a hell of a lot more re-subbs, maybe CGC needs the business now, that's why they are for it? If that is the case, move to smaller location, get less employee's but please, please put comics before profits!
CGC has great power and I believe they have a great responsiblity for the comic world as a whole and should not encourage restoration on comic books except for old rare copies that are in need (30's-50's wrecked, falling to bits) and not encourage people to press 9.4's in hopes of 9.6's, that is ridiculous!
herc
"With great power comes great responsibility."
When CGC first came out, I was quite pleased, I thought this was and would be a great thing for comics. It would protect the buyer on online sites such as ebay where we would not have to rely on bad grading, we would get a third party grading company that would be unbiast.
CGC books that were getting high grades started to get very high premiums, maybe a lot higher than people realised or thought.
I believe this was good for the hobby and comics flourished. Some few years later, prices dropped, less books were getting graded? (not sure)
So we changed the labels, let's see how many re-subs this will get us.
The higher powers decided to make a bigger thing of the pressing, this would then encourage a hell of a lot more re-subbs, maybe CGC needs the business now, that's why they are for it? If that is the case, move to smaller location, get less employee's but please, please put comics before profits!
CGC has great power and I believe they have a great responsiblity for the comic world as a whole and should not encourage restoration on comic books except for old rare copies that are in need (30's-50's wrecked, falling to bits) and not encourage people to press 9.4's in hopes of 9.6's, that is ridiculous!
herc