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Sidekick Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 215

Robbie, I think you misunderstood my remark. Zippah, I understand your point about PGX. I thought they only did comics myself. But the note, envelope, sketch and signature are authentic. This is how the "class act" I was referrring to [Schulz, not anyone else] conducted himself, even at the height of his career.

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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 9:24 am Post subject:

Daniel...maybe you'd like to comment on these PGX graded beauties...

http://boards.collectors-society.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=1161134&page=0&fpart=2&vc=1

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Daniel, you've now moved undeniably into the same league as Ewert. Shame on you.

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Can't wait for the song and dance on this one.

I have no trust in either CGC or PGX. I know you may disagree with that point rh but really how can I trust either.

Both these companies are dirty and need more cleaning up then they know how to do.

Just imo

(Now I know I won't put part of my prize winning to use)
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject: Re: PGX Has Gone Insane

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I was just going to quote that myself Lazyboy Laughing

Famous last words if I ever heard them.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject: Re: PGX Has Gone Insane

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And you weren't at all suspicious that something out of the ordinary could account for a jump. I understand that with changing grading scales over time standards could change/slip but knowing how devious some people are I would really question changes such as this.

CGC fail(s) to ask this question and went on trusting their submittors and Steve got hoodwinked by a person he trusted and called a friend.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: PGX Has Gone Insane

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Let me sum up our postition:

We will investigate this book. If this book was trimmed we will 1st look at our detection abilities with these type of books. These books are quite different than regular comics. Is there a concern there? If there is we will find the best solution.

Do we need to ban someone else? At this point I would think not although if someone is consistently 'intentionally' trying to slip restored books past us it would be a consideration to ban them rather than to worry that eventually a restored book could slip by.

If someone has concerns about any book or any other concerns please email us with your concerns. I don't read these boards much and do not read the CGC boards. One reason is its just not worth it. When someone comes forward with possibly a legitimate concern a dozen other people go off the deep end with random garbage. With so many people posting so much garbage I think legitimate concerns get lost.

We will continue to grade each book accurately and do a restoration check on every book. When we are contacted about concerns we will look into them and take any appropriate action, no matter what the concern is.
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Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:22 pm Post subject: Re: PGX Has Gone Insane

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I joined this forum just to take Daniel up on his request that we ask him directly, although I thought it more fitting to do it here than by email.

Daniel, I do have one question about this controversial guy that you definitely CAN answer right away because it's not an issue of investigation or whatever:

How is it that this person is able to submit books and have them graded, slabbed, and returned to them near-instantly while others wait through the 17 day turnaround? (He, like TL before him, is able to wait for the mail to arrive to recieve books from other eBayers, send them to you, have them graded, have the books returned to them, and start auctions on them--all in less than a week from the time the auction ENDED in which this person won the books in the first place. This suggests that they get near-instant service when they send their books to you)

Incidntally, whether or not this person is TL, the exact same question applies to either one: BOTH of these customers seem to have the inside track to getting their high-grade, usually-Disney books graded and returned to them in the blink of an eye. Since that is remarkably uncharacteristic of PGX's services to anyone else, I thought you could tell us what magic trick they use to acquire this kind of service.

Comics are my Life Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 1237

OK, I know there is the fact that real answers to real questions CAN get lost in some rhetoric and "diving in the deep-end," but there is SO much here that screams "LOOK AT ME, HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE THIS" that is I'm going deaf.

I will admit this - I have made my opinion before, I don't believe in grading a book unless you are going to sell it, that's the only reason IMO. And I do know that this seems (note the word) to not be a problem with modern comics, but I have a couple of recent-enough books that, at the right time, I was going to have graded and then put up on eBay. At first, CGC seemed the logical solution, but then I caught onto a few things and a few websites, and changed my mind and said in my head, I'll give PGX the business. Now, they are just going to go up raw. If I can't put my utmost faith into a service, I just won't use it, and none of the so-called comic book "grading companies" have anywhere NEAR even a smidgen of my faith.

-slym (not finishing his pre-Unity Rai CGC 9.6 run)
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