What I wonder is what some of the big movers of CGC books like ComicLink, Heritage, ComicConnect think of this as I would think it will discourage some bidders, even if it is just at the margin.

Having just sold a ton of books on the boards to over 40 me,bets I had a fair number of people say they needed to call about notes as part of their decision making process. I wonder if this policy had been in place over the last 3 weeks if I would have had fewer sales as a result. I'm small potatoes and just sold a project off but to the big boys this could be an issue.

Would you call for notes and pay these prices for a book at auction that you do not know if you would win anyways.

Seriously, I said nothing when they raised their rates recently as I don't know their costs or bottom line but charging this much for simple notes has to change. Graders notes only help people make their decision to buy a comic that they paid CGC to evaluate.

I want to talk to the people at CGC that first sat around a desk in meetings saying something like.... "I think our customers would really like to have access to the notes (and pregrades) available to them as it could contain important information for discerning buyers that are looking to avoid certain types of flaws" And then obviously the management at the time agreed and implemented a policy of only 3 books per day to keep it under control.

Fast forward to today where they (under new management) are fielding many note calls for different reasons and current management sits around the same desk and talks about how to
a) put a ridiculously overpriced charge on the service where the higher value books cost more even though the process of providing the information is the same for all comics of all ages and values
b) automate the system yet make it a bigger hassle to get the notes by waiting to get an email within 24 hours
c) slip it in without any pre-warning or any opinion gathering from it's loyal members
d) not even offer free notes to the person that originally submitted the book
e) anyone care to add?

Was CGC bought by Apple or Microsoft?
Where is Haspel and Borock when we need them?

I'm not reading this whole thing. I just can't handle it sober. But my reaction:

1) The charge differential per tier is bunk. A service should cost an amount. Unless CGC can prove that notes for the tiers are materially different, they're not providing any additional value for a higher price. Just soaking folks.

2) Sure, pressers make money off comics. So? Lots of people do. Doesn't give CGC justification for poor decisions. Also, they make money off pressers, so they can quit whining.

3) This is a net positive for them operationally (even without the charge). They no longer provide notes in person-tying up staff and phone resources. They just need to do some database cleanup and host a site. That level of investment doesn't justify this level of screwing your customer base.

4) If I PAY an appraiser to evaluate something I'm entitled to ask how they arrived at that value/opinion and get the explanation.

5) I'm certain we'll see a lot more notes on books graded post-April 2012.

Thanks for allowing me to add to the mayhem.

What I wonder is what some of the big movers of CGC books like ComicLink, Heritage, ComicConnect think of this as I would think it will discourage some bidders, even if it is just at the margin.

Having just sold a ton of books on the boards to over 40 me,bets I had a fair number of people say they needed to call about notes as part of their decision making process. I wonder if this policy had been in place over the last 3 weeks if I would have had fewer sales as a result. I'm small potatoes and just sold a project off but to the big boys this could be an issue.

Would you call for notes and pay these prices for a book at auction that you do not know if you would win anyways.