The amount of grades that changed was crazy. Some of those jumps were troubling. I don't know how they can misgrade the book that bad. Makes me hesitant to send books in.
Seems more like a money maker for cgc just think if they under grade all books hoping they get resubmitted to get graded again how much money it makes the company
Not really. Grading ultimately is subjective, and it’s always the average of 3 graders per book. Due to that method, changes can occur consistently if you resubmit a book. This activity actually makes sense. And the 8.5 to 9.8 makes sense. Unfortunately it was likely mis graded the first time around. Just correctly graded this time.
@@Comicbookyoutubersrock you think cgc still actually has 3 graders grade every book? I highly doubt that. How could 3 graders give a book a 7.5 and then it gets graded a 9.4 or higher. I would bet my bottom dollar that most books are graded by one person. Especially moderns.
@@moodswing4460 Yeah I mean I just go by what they tell you the process is. Is it possible you’re right, yeah, but until there’s proof of it I have to assume it’s the average of 3 graders per book as they state is the process for every book. As far as the 7.5 to 9.4 situation, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, these are not machines. These are humans grading comics, and humans are inherently prone to make mistakes. So in that instance, if a book was just resubmitted, not pressed/cleaned or anything like that before being sent back in, than it’s extremely likely “they” as in 3 graders messed up the first time around. I mean we’re talking thousands of books daily. Even with a system where 3 people routinely check books out, assuming that’s the case, I highly doubt mistakes don’t happen.
It would be interesting to know what the totall value bump was , you spent "X" to submit the 100 books, that where valued at "Y" and after you got them back with the ups and downs the new total value of the 100 books is now "Z" .. so Z - X = your potential overall net profit from the exercise. This was a great entertaining piece of content , btw.. thanks!
@@ComicBookInvestmentswell I will send you a bunch of resubmits you can crack them, send them in, shoot the video and send them back to me? What do you say? 😂
It's like home plate umpires calling balls and strikes. Unless it's the same person grading everything there will always be inconsistencies. Even the same person can see things differently at different times. It's all a crapshoot.
This is why I rarely ever submit comics to CGC. I'd rather just buy graded books with the grade I want. I prefer the majority of my collection raw anyway.
I really really enjoyed this video. Watching some of the grade drops makes me feel better about my purchasing lower 9 grades instead always shooting for the 9.8. Thanks for all your hard work editing and putting together this video. Well done! 😊
Very interesting and expensive experiment. I recognized years ago that the slabbers are totally inconsistent. I first submitted books around 2003. Back then CGC had some credibility, was reasonably priced and typically got books back in six weeks. Then along came CBCS. Both graders quickly became equally erratic and terrible. I haven’t submitted any books to be plasticized in over 2 years. Instead, I have sold off many slabs and cracked open many in my pc. I’m much happier with raw books. I spent 25+ years owning comic shops and using Overstreet grading guidelines. Henceforth, that’s what I’m doing every time. To the devil with CGC, CBCS and PGX.
First, I do truly enjoy watching this video. My issue is that doing this does ultimately make the census completely unreliable on an EPIC level. When calculating the fair market value, many rely upon the census as part of the equation. Again, I appreciate and respect your experiment and the outcome, but I can’t help but wonder how the census is even remotely accurate or worthwhile anymore. Thoughts? I am kinda sad with the loss of this resource when assessing fair value… I really hope you don’t take this personal! I enjoy you and your channel tremendously! Sorry but thank you kindly for your awesome content!!! ❤
Man, this video is awesome. Yeah, making a seperate quick video to look at potential profit margin after resubmitting the 100 would be pretty cool. This was an excellent video.
I really enjoyed this video and found it fascinating… and troubling. The swings in grade are just crazy in some cases, particularly with no re-press in between. I appreciated that you did not re-press the books, for the sake of the experiment, but if it was me, I would feel like that was leaving money on the table. Also, it really bugs me tbh that you don’t send your old labels back in; if not with this submission then separately or with a future submission. I think everyone should do this, for the integrity of the census, but particularly with someone doing as much volume as you do, and with as big of a platform as you have.
Lmfao if CGC actually did what they purport to- grade accurately, then the grades would have all come back the same & the census data would be fine... but they don't. Cuz grading doesn't mean shit.
Amazes me that the time and cost of resubmission would make it (potentially) worth it (with a lot of them). Really interesting vid. Wonder if CGC will see this as a good or bad thing. Pretty consistent but those big swings in grade on a couple can't be good.
just curious, does this mess with the census numbers? For example on the fighting man comic you said theres only a few in that grade. is now there another? or do you let them know after that the origional cracked one got replaced?
@@ComicBookInvestments A pity you can't submit the labels (post grading I can see why you souldn't do it with the books for grading) to get the census down which would also help with your books worth in future?
Started watching your channel with interview with your dad and it got me thinking about my Dad and I and our live for comics. Ive never sent anything in, but this is both encouraging and discouraging at the same time. I guess only one person looks at it and can vary.
Shocking to see how grades vary for the same comic!! It all goes to show you the grading process is mostly subjective. I wouldn’t be surprised if the grader flips a coin to decide to go half point up or down. I feel CGC needs to eliminate so many grade points and just have only five different grading numbers. It’s way to chaotic in determining the grade of a comic. Very informative content Dave! 👏👏👏👍
It's great to see you got most of the bumps you wanted but the question I have is shouldn't you be sending the old blue labels back so that the census is correct?
Then why bother with sending any labels back? It’s still fuckin up the census. This is not personal, many others do it too. I’ve owned a small comic business since 2008 and have always referenced the census as a “tool” to show my customers…gonna bury that reference now as it’s clearly flawed and misleading.
Great Video! So anyone who puts faith in the CGC grade should think about this... ANYTIME a highly experienced person (as you certainly are) gets a grade that's lower than they think it should be on a big book, they're going to crack it and resubmit... and they're more than likely to get the grade "corrected"... Right? Sounds reasonable... but here's the flip side... every time such a person gets a grade that is higher than it should be... They do a happy dance and they sell it based on the grade that's too high. So... what that means is that the grade that collectors see on a big book is either accurate, or a little high (because it was accurate or too high in the first place, or it's over-stated (in the case where they got lucky and didn't resubmit). So, as more and more people have big books cracked and re-graded that they think are under-graded, the AVERAGE CGC grade on big books are actually over-stated - they will tend to skew too high because of the ones that are over-graded are accepted as is. Simple math. Collectors should keep that in mind when buying a big book that they can't hold in their hands and be happy about themselves. And collectors who aren't experts shouldn't be buying big books based on the CGC grade without a consultant - because the grade (which creates the price) isn't necessarily accurate (it may be over-stated by a lot). You only submitted books that you thought were UNDER-graded. Right? Had you put aside every "gift grade" you got over the past 2 years, you'd probably have gotten 69 downgrades. CGC grades are not adequate indicators of value. But great video.
Dave. I’ve got about a dozen I need you to look at that I’d love to know if I should resubmit. You could have a business just doing that. 😂 Great video, keep up the good work.
Hi David love the video as always man.I really hope you reply to this.I am going to on Collectors Comics for the first time tonight.Does every seller on Collectors Comics ship Internationally. Maybe if I buy of any seller then Collectors Comics Ships on behalf of the seller.I really have been struggling now for 7 months now with those ridiculous Ebay restrictions to South Africa. Really appreciate the help David.
Love this idea for a post! I always wanted to send a group of 9.8 pre-screens that didn't make the cut the first time and see if some received 9.8 the second go around?
I definitely appreciate seeing the results from this and the afterwards data from it. I do larger submissions to cgc a few times a year and this is also something I've considered doing when I don't agree with the graders notes or grades assigned to books I've submitted.
Thanks for sharing all of the results. Crazy swings! So did you do anything to them after cracking out? Re-press? And did you send them in under the "resubmit" option? What is that option and would it have given any better results? Thanks!
back in 1999 ebay was rampant with sneaky dealers and in 2001 cgc came out as a third party grading service to level the playing field for buyers and put sellers on notice that over grading was looked down upon. I would never have thought I would be watching a video on reslabbing comics so u can have a grade increase good video lol
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Awesome video, very much enjoyed it. Dave I would love a video of you grading books before ypu send them. You are very good at rough grading, would love to see what you look for and how your process for grading the way you do. I shall call you Sensei Dave. Lol😅. Teach us hacks the way of the grading force
This enforces my belief every book exists in a range. Most went up a grade (4.5-5.0 or 7.5-8.0) and to me that also speaks to CGC consistency which is a good thing. The ones that came back same obviously are probably maxed out and he one that dropped a grade well you lucked out getting the higher or their range originally. The ones that bear investigation are the ones going from 7s to 9s with no work done. Or down the same way. That Xmen 266 needs some explaining. My guess is the Mario was graded by a rookie who didn’t know about the printing flaw that can exist on that book
All these were cherry picked as getting bad grades to begin with. So it was mostly just upside. The ones that got huge swings. Got really really bad grades to begin with then for way too good of grades after
@@ComicBookInvestments that makes sense that most would go up slightly or down or stay the same. It also makes sense that out of 100, bound to get 1-2 that were grossly undergraded or over graded as it is human error
I completely agree with your viewpoint and concur that CGC did pretty good existing in that range given that these books were specifically selected as likely under-graded candidates by a very experienced seller. Many sellers seem to like to always add the 'grading is subjective' line to their listings to cover their butts - and it is, but generally only to a point. A grade within 1 grade above it or below is 'subjective'. Calling stuff 'near mint' that is really in the 7-8 range, as many onile sellers do, is just trying to take advantage of people and the disadvantages of online dealing. The strangest one here appears to be the 9.8 Swamp Thing, apparently going from severely under-graded to marginally over-graded based on his expectations. To an 'expert' 9.6-9.8 should be fairly apparent. An expert should be able to tell if a book is in 'perfect' condition.
Great job in production presentation and must have taken a long time to put together. I enjoyed watching this despite the annoying background music so Thanks for going thru this experiment which we all think of doing at some point.
Some of those grade jumps were absolutely ridiculous. My question is, did you do anything other than remove them from the containers? Were any of them pressed or cleaned?
Great video!! I’m curious did cgc give you grader notes for the Xmen 266?!? Because 2.6 grade point difference is crazy!! Like a 9.6 and a 7.0 present totally different!
This video makes me want to go thru my slabs again. There have been many comics I've submitted that I really thought were under graded. This vid makes me think I should give resubbing a try.
That Xmen 266 was painful! Does it look like it was damaged? On the whole though it shows how subjective and volitile grading can be, especially in those mid grades. Great video though, we need to see the dollars and cents breakdown though, that will tie this all together.
Amazing video and demonstrates the vagaries, but also, some of the consistency of the CGC grading system. Like you said, these were hand picked because you would grade them differently. Do you think the overall cost of resubmitting these hundred books was worth the gain, and occasional lost, in value? lol, I'm sure it was as there was $2300 value chage just in the Doom book. Nice work.
So Dave, you just cracked them out of their slabs and resubmitted without at least a C&P? Do you think it would have made a difference on the books that came back at the same grade before the resubmit? Do you send them in with the previous label or not? This was a fun video. Thanks for posting.
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Very informative video here. Any you say you did NOTHING but crack and resubmit? Can you do a video on how you crack books out of these new cases? I am tempted to do a few of these. I think the graders are hung over on some of the days they grade my books.
A professional grading service shouldn’t have to depend on the mood of the grader. They just have zero standards or consistency, but at least they sure can charge a lot for amateur grading.
Fun video but it is a little concerning how inconsistent their grading is, especially the Gambit (how do they grade a 9.4 one time and a 7.0 the second time).
The amount of grades that changed was crazy. Some of those jumps were troubling. I don't know how they can misgrade the book that bad. Makes me hesitant to send books in.
Seems more like a money maker for cgc just think if they under grade all books hoping they get resubmitted to get graded again how much money it makes the company
Not really. Grading ultimately is subjective, and it’s always the average of 3 graders per book. Due to that method, changes can occur consistently if you resubmit a book. This activity actually makes sense. And the 8.5 to 9.8 makes sense. Unfortunately it was likely mis graded the first time around. Just correctly graded this time.
@@Comicbookyoutubersrock you think cgc still actually has 3 graders grade every book? I highly doubt that. How could 3 graders give a book a 7.5 and then it gets graded a 9.4 or higher. I would bet my bottom dollar that most books are graded by one person. Especially moderns.
@@moodswing4460 Yeah I mean I just go by what they tell you the process is. Is it possible you’re right, yeah, but until there’s proof of it I have to assume it’s the average of 3 graders per book as they state is the process for every book. As far as the 7.5 to 9.4 situation, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, these are not machines. These are humans grading comics, and humans are inherently prone to make mistakes. So in that instance, if a book was just resubmitted, not pressed/cleaned or anything like that before being sent back in, than it’s extremely likely “they” as in 3 graders messed up the first time around. I mean we’re talking thousands of books daily. Even with a system where 3 people routinely check books out, assuming that’s the case, I highly doubt mistakes don’t happen.
They seem to have zero quality control like they must just have people grading however they’re feeling that day 😭
That xmen 266 from a 9.6 and trying for a 9.8 and comes back a 7.0? Did you see what the grader notes were?
It would be interesting to know what the totall value bump was , you spent "X" to submit the 100 books, that where valued at "Y" and after you got them back with the ups and downs the new total value of the 100 books is now "Z" .. so Z - X = your potential overall net profit from the exercise. This was a great entertaining piece of content , btw.. thanks!
Thanks. Maybe I’d this is a hit video I’ll do another one and add that in there
Loved this episode, really interesting exercise! Net profit (or loss if negative) would be Z - (X + Y) = Z - X - Y .
Yes net would be great or just some of the expenses and value bumps
I find these types of videos pretty entertaining. Definitely should do more of these.
Well I would but it’s hard to have 100 resubmits
@@ComicBookInvestments Yeah, you definitely had a lot.
@@ComicBookInvestmentswell I will send you a bunch of resubmits you can crack them, send them in, shoot the video and send them back to me? What do you say? 😂
CGC's inconsistency is really scary.
It's like home plate umpires calling balls and strikes. Unless it's the same person grading everything there will always be inconsistencies. Even the same person can see things differently at different times. It's all a crapshoot.
This is why I rarely ever submit comics to CGC. I'd rather just buy graded books with the grade I want. I prefer the majority of my collection raw anyway.
I really really enjoyed this video. Watching some of the grade drops makes me feel better about my purchasing lower 9 grades instead always shooting for the 9.8. Thanks for all your hard work editing and putting together this video. Well done! 😊
Thanks
Great video, appreciate the editing work
Thanks. Ya lots of edits
Interesting video. Do you plan on sending in a batch of cgc labels to them so they fix the census?
Also wondering.
“Maybe I’ll be dead and you’ll never see this video”. Lol. Funny and dark at the same time.
Hahaha and true. But I’m alive. Or I’m just an AI and I died long ago
Just realistic, noone is a special case lol
Very interesting and expensive experiment. I recognized years ago that the slabbers are totally inconsistent. I first submitted books around 2003. Back then CGC had some credibility, was reasonably priced and typically got books back in six weeks. Then along came CBCS. Both graders quickly became equally erratic and terrible. I haven’t submitted any books to be plasticized in over 2 years. Instead, I have sold off many slabs and cracked open many in my pc. I’m much happier with raw books. I spent 25+ years owning comic shops and using Overstreet grading guidelines. Henceforth, that’s what I’m doing every time. To the devil with CGC, CBCS and PGX.
First, I do truly enjoy watching this video. My issue is that doing this does ultimately make the census completely unreliable on an EPIC level. When calculating the fair market value, many rely upon the census as part of the equation. Again, I appreciate and respect your experiment and the outcome, but I can’t help but wonder how the census is even remotely accurate or worthwhile anymore. Thoughts? I am kinda sad with the loss of this resource when assessing fair value…
I really hope you don’t take this personal! I enjoy you and your channel tremendously!
Sorry but thank you kindly for your awesome content!!! ❤
Really nice way to say CGC is bullshit and graded slabs dont mean anything in regards to actual quality assessment
Man, this video is awesome. Yeah, making a seperate quick video to look at potential profit margin after resubmitting the 100 would be pretty cool. This was an excellent video.
Great video! Appreciate the amount of work that went into it. Would be interesting to hear what CGC said about it all!
I really enjoyed this video and found it fascinating… and troubling. The swings in grade are just crazy in some cases, particularly with no re-press in between. I appreciated that you did not re-press the books, for the sake of the experiment, but if it was me, I would feel like that was leaving money on the table. Also, it really bugs me tbh that you don’t send your old labels back in; if not with this submission then separately or with a future submission. I think everyone should do this, for the integrity of the census, but particularly with someone doing as much volume as you do, and with as big of a platform as you have.
Lmfao if CGC actually did what they purport to- grade accurately, then the grades would have all come back the same & the census data would be fine... but they don't. Cuz grading doesn't mean shit.
Amazing video! Thanks for the effort and insight!!
As I understand it, you must mail the old labels to CGC to update the registry. Did you keep the old labels?
Amazes me that the time and cost of resubmission would make it (potentially) worth it (with a lot of them). Really interesting vid. Wonder if CGC will see this as a good or bad thing. Pretty consistent but those big swings in grade on a couple can't be good.
That was a ton of fun to watch. Thanks my man
What the heck went wrong with xmen 266!? Geez that's a big drop. Was there damage from cracking the slab?
just curious, does this mess with the census numbers? For example on the fighting man comic you said theres only a few in that grade. is now there another? or do you let them know after that the origional cracked one got replaced?
It does mess with the census. So there is actually a lot less that exist
@@ComicBookInvestments A pity you can't submit the labels (post grading I can see why you souldn't do it with the books for grading) to get the census down which would also help with your books worth in future?
Amazing video! Thank you for taking the time to post this video and all the editing. Keep uo the great work and video content.
don't forget to send in the old grader tags to keep the census more accurate. every little bit helps the community.
I have a couple of comics I'm going to open up to get signed and then resubmit. What's the best way to do it? Submit in the same slabs as before?
That had to be so much work! Thanks for this, really enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Started watching your channel with interview with your dad and it got me thinking about my Dad and I and our live for comics. Ive never sent anything in, but this is both encouraging and discouraging at the same time. I guess only one person looks at it and can vary.
Ya. That is why it’s important to know how to grade yourself. As you can know that if it gets a bad grade. To try again
Love the cuts from .. OLD Dave -to- NEW Dave .. I was cracking up. BTW, happy you didn't die!
Hahah thanks. I could be dead though. This might just be imposter Dave
On high value books do you use a 3rd party for CPR?
Sending another box of 9 tomorrow for auction
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Shocking to see how grades vary for the same comic!! It all goes to show you the grading process is mostly subjective. I wouldn’t be surprised if the grader flips a coin to decide to go half point up or down. I feel CGC needs to eliminate so many grade points and just have only five different grading numbers. It’s way to chaotic in determining the grade of a comic. Very informative content Dave! 👏👏👏👍
That was a awesome video man. Thank you for taking the time to put that out.
Just look at the graders notes … oh that’s right …
What dose it say about grading companies. I have seen and heard a-lot of stories like this.
Great video. I hope to see more of these.
excellent thanks for the hard work you do on these videos
Great video. Gratz on your triumphs.
I really enjoyed this video! I know you must have busted your rear end editing, but it was worth it for the viewing pleasure. Do it again, please!❤
Thanks. Ya I might do another like this but I have to have enough books to get regraded
It’s frustrating when the grade goes down.
I had one that went from 9.0 to 8.5 and 9.6 to 9.2
Yes it is
I laughed so hard when you jumped from a new t-shirt to maybe I'll dead.
(Slight differences there Davo.) 😂
What were the grader notes on the one that dropped from 9.6 to 7.0? That seems like a crazy drop.
Yeah, please share. A 2.6pt decrease is significant. You didn’t explain the reasons
It's great to see you got most of the bumps you wanted but the question I have is shouldn't you be sending the old blue labels back so that the census is correct?
Ya I will later. Not with the re sub or they will just give it the same grade again
Then why bother with sending any labels back? It’s still fuckin up the census. This is not personal, many others do it too. I’ve owned a small comic business since 2008 and have always referenced the census as a “tool” to show my customers…gonna bury that reference now as it’s clearly flawed and misleading.
Do u send back the old label & let ‘em know for the census? I wouldn’t lol
I don’t when I send them in. But I will at a later date
Good segment! Keep these resubmit shows going.
This my favorite vid ever!! You can return old labels so they can update the census.
Wow that was a lot of cracking out ! Did you do any work to any of the books ?
I enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing
Amazing!!! Nicely done.
This was a fun video to watch. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
can't you send the cracked labels back to CGC so they can remove them from the census? That way there won't be two 7.5s of the Fighting Man Annual.
Ya I do that after. If I send it in with the label they will give it the same grade
Great Video! So anyone who puts faith in the CGC grade should think about this... ANYTIME a highly experienced person (as you certainly are) gets a grade that's lower than they think it should be on a big book, they're going to crack it and resubmit... and they're more than likely to get the grade "corrected"... Right? Sounds reasonable... but here's the flip side... every time such a person gets a grade that is higher than it should be... They do a happy dance and they sell it based on the grade that's too high. So... what that means is that the grade that collectors see on a big book is either accurate, or a little high (because it was accurate or too high in the first place, or it's over-stated (in the case where they got lucky and didn't resubmit). So, as more and more people have big books cracked and re-graded that they think are under-graded, the AVERAGE CGC grade on big books are actually over-stated - they will tend to skew too high because of the ones that are over-graded are accepted as is. Simple math. Collectors should keep that in mind when buying a big book that they can't hold in their hands and be happy about themselves. And collectors who aren't experts shouldn't be buying big books based on the CGC grade without a consultant - because the grade (which creates the price) isn't necessarily accurate (it may be over-stated by a lot). You only submitted books that you thought were UNDER-graded. Right? Had you put aside every "gift grade" you got over the past 2 years, you'd probably have gotten 69 downgrades. CGC grades are not adequate indicators of value. But great video.
Dave.
I’ve got about a dozen I need you to look at that I’d love to know if I should resubmit.
You could have a business just doing that.
😂
Great video, keep up the good work.
Hi David love the video as always man.I really hope you reply to this.I am going to on Collectors Comics for the first time tonight.Does every seller on Collectors Comics ship Internationally. Maybe if I buy of any seller then Collectors Comics Ships on behalf of the seller.I really have been struggling now for 7 months now with those ridiculous Ebay restrictions to South Africa. Really appreciate the help David.
Love this idea for a post! I always wanted to send a group of 9.8 pre-screens that didn't make the cut the first time and see if some received 9.8 the second go around?
Cool video man I like how you did it seems like a lot of work, good job
Great video, very entertaining. Nice job on your grading skills.
Thanks so much!
I definitely appreciate seeing the results from this and the afterwards data from it. I do larger submissions to cgc a few times a year and this is also something I've considered doing when I don't agree with the graders notes or grades assigned to books I've submitted.
Thanks for sharing all of the results. Crazy swings! So did you do anything to them after cracking out? Re-press? And did you send them in under the "resubmit" option? What is that option and would it have given any better results? Thanks!
back in 1999 ebay was rampant with sneaky dealers and in 2001 cgc came out as a third party grading service to level the playing field for buyers and put sellers on notice that over grading was looked down upon. I would never have thought I would be watching a video on reslabbing comics so u can have a grade increase good video lol
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Awesome video, very much enjoyed it. Dave I would love a video of you grading books before ypu send them. You are very good at rough grading, would love to see what you look for and how your process for grading the way you do. I shall call you Sensei Dave. Lol😅. Teach us hacks the way of the grading force
Congrats on most of those grades Dave🙂 I am so happy for you 🙂
Thank you
This enforces my belief every book exists in a range. Most went up a grade (4.5-5.0 or 7.5-8.0) and to me that also speaks to CGC consistency which is a good thing. The ones that came back same obviously are probably maxed out and he one that dropped a grade well you lucked out getting the higher or their range originally.
The ones that bear investigation are the ones going from 7s to 9s with no work done. Or down the same way. That Xmen 266 needs some explaining. My guess is the Mario was graded by a rookie who didn’t know about the printing flaw that can exist on that book
All these were cherry picked as getting bad grades to begin with. So it was mostly just upside. The ones that got huge swings. Got really really bad grades to begin with then for way too good of grades after
@@ComicBookInvestments that makes sense that most would go up slightly or down or stay the same. It also makes sense that out of 100, bound to get 1-2 that were grossly undergraded or over graded as it is human error
I completely agree with your viewpoint and concur that CGC did pretty good existing in that range given that these books were specifically selected as likely under-graded candidates by a very experienced seller. Many sellers seem to like to always add the 'grading is subjective' line to their listings to cover their butts - and it is, but generally only to a point. A grade within 1 grade above it or below is 'subjective'. Calling stuff 'near mint' that is really in the 7-8 range, as many onile sellers do, is just trying to take advantage of people and the disadvantages of online dealing.
The strangest one here appears to be the 9.8 Swamp Thing, apparently going from severely under-graded to marginally over-graded based on his expectations. To an 'expert' 9.6-9.8 should be fairly apparent. An expert should be able to tell if a book is in 'perfect' condition.
Great job in production presentation and must have taken a long time to put together. I enjoyed watching this despite the annoying background music so Thanks for going thru this experiment which we all think of doing at some point.
Some of those grade jumps were absolutely ridiculous. My question is, did you do anything other than remove them from the containers? Were any of them pressed or cleaned?
...based on the results, the money spent/money earned, and time to press; would you do this experiment again but press the books?
Yes I would. But again these were cherry picked as the best candidates to get a grade bump and financially worth it too
@@ComicBookInvestments Did you mention in the video the overall value gained by doing this resub experiment?
Great video!! I’m curious did cgc give you grader notes for the Xmen 266?!? Because 2.6 grade point difference is crazy!! Like a 9.6 and a 7.0 present totally different!
It got damaged
This video makes me want to go thru my slabs again. There have been many comics I've submitted that I really thought were under graded. This vid makes me think I should give resubbing a try.
Always worth a try
Crazy video love it
That Xmen 266 was painful! Does it look like it was damaged? On the whole though it shows how subjective and volitile grading can be, especially in those mid grades. Great video though, we need to see the dollars and cents breakdown though, that will tie this all together.
Interesting video and a credit to your grading ability.
Thanks
Did you send in the labels?
No I didn’t
This is inspiring. I have a few books I don't agree with and think I'll resend. 8.5-9.8 though, crazy.
Amazing video and demonstrates the vagaries, but also, some of the consistency of the CGC grading system. Like you said, these were hand picked because you would grade them differently. Do you think the overall cost of resubmitting these hundred books was worth the gain, and occasional lost, in value? lol, I'm sure it was as there was $2300 value chage just in the Doom book. Nice work.
Great video, really enjoyed this one
Thanks. Glad you liked it
Dude awesome experiment. It took A TON of work though! I get batches back where I can tell the grader was having a bad day...
11:40 Wtf happened with that X-Men 266? 9.6 to 7.0?
Congrats on all the bumps!
Crazy congratulations
Great work
Thanks
Great video. Graphic on the Star Wars 68 was wrong. You did get the 9.4.
Whoops. My mistake
So Dave, you just cracked them out of their slabs and resubmitted without at least a C&P? Do you think it would have made a difference on the books that came back at the same grade before the resubmit? Do you send them in with the previous label or not? This was a fun video. Thanks for posting.
WOW! 69 out of 100 got a bump! Shows you know what you're doing. Great video!
Sometimes when you go to a restaurant your portion of fries are way bigger than usual and your burger tastes better, because someone decided to hook you up by putting on an extra patty, extra tomato and more pickles on it . But sometimes they burn the burger and forget your fries.
Love to see how CGC and CBCS compare in consistency.
Very informative video here. Any you say you did NOTHING but crack and resubmit? Can you do a video on how you crack books out of these new cases? I am tempted to do a few of these. I think the graders are hung over on some of the days they grade my books.
Agree... and Dave... Please video on cracking books
I don't wanna know how much editing that was😂
Wow...Awesome brother. Sure wish I could grade that well. I always end up between 8.5-9.6
that just goes to show how bad their ratings are, to go from a 7.5 to 9.6 is huge how do you do that ??
Do you ever return your old Labels from cracked slabs for CGC to correct/amend the Census?
Very cool video
Gambit 9.6 to 7.0 did they drop the book ???
It got damaged
@@ComicBookInvestmentsIs there any recourse for you if that happens?
Wouldn't it be interesting to know who the grader was each time? Especially on the big jumps and downgrades. Grader vs grader lol.
Do you let them know you resubmitted so they can adjust the cgc census?
Send in the label to fix the census on that Fighting Man book
Did you send any for a clean and press? The second time?
And do you send them in slabbed? Or crack them out sebd them raw on the re submission?
A professional grading service shouldn’t have to depend on the mood of the grader. They just have zero standards or consistency, but at least they sure can charge a lot for amateur grading.
Great video !!!
Glad you enjoyed it
This was a novel idea and video!
how did it go from 9.6 to a 7.0
That is insane regardless of the value of the book
Fun video but it is a little concerning how inconsistent their grading is, especially the Gambit (how do they grade a 9.4 one time and a 7.0 the second time).
It got damage d
were these comics cracked and opened before sending in for a new submission?
I’m at the beginning of the video and I think that this will be very eye-opening.
Re: Fighting Man - is there a way to send back labels or something like that, to have the books removed from the census?