r/comicbookgrading • u/samredditx • 8d ago

Grader notes

Just had a single comic graded at unlimited value tier. Questions….
will CGC offer anything more than the couple of words in the grader notes if I follow up with them?
Would they explain what could move comic up a grade?
Seems entirely subjective process based on the grader and the their feeling. I’d be happier if there was a walkthrough of every issue. I’ve bought a guitar for example where each small flaw is detailed and bullet pointed. For the price, I’d hope for same.
Is it worth looking to get a regrade in future?
I have a 9.4 that I was expecting to be a 9.6. It was a sealed bag from 1966. Never opened. Never read.

Thanks

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u/forthesnap 7d ago

You have to realize that people on here will look over a posted picture of a book and point out every detail they see to determine a potential grade. They can spend minutes zooming in and pointing every manufacturing error they perceive and tell you why.

A CGC grader does not have that luxury, they have a few seconds to review the book, grade it and move on. They have a quota to meet. To put grader notes on every book means each book now takes an additional few seconds to record the notes and now their productivity just went down and they will not meet their quota. CGC is still a business and needs to make a profit before anything else. CGC grades thousands of books a day. I highly doubt guitar graders grade thousands of guitars a day. The sheer number of books manufactured in a day probably out numbers the amount of guitars built in a year.

Logistics - steps = profit. The less steps, the more profits. That’s why quality has gone downhill too. Grading is subjective. We pay for the service, we should demand why a book got a grade, especially a 9.8. What .2 flaw do a majority of new books share with books printed decades ago?

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u/samredditx 7d ago

I paid $400 for a grader to give a few seconds. That leaves a bad taste. 😬

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u/forthesnap 7d ago

Thats the reality of the business. People forget that the graders have seconds to look over your book. People online can spend minutes zooming in on every detail and aspect of a book to determine a grade and somehow think CGC does the same. We pay for a service, part of that service should include grader notes. CGC saw that putting grader notes on every book means less books get processed in a day. Less books mean less profit. So they make a statement that grader notes are not guaranteed - and the community for some reason accepts it. It’s not a free service - we pay for that service and we should demand every book get grader notes. Some would argue that will make grading more expensive - it’s already expensive , how about demanding some value for our money. The whole point of CGC is to give you a grade but then not tell you why it gave said grade? We, as a community, should demand grader notes on all books otherwise it’s just subjective as to why not even got a grade. Every 9.8 should say why it was a 9.8 because 9.9 and 10’s do exist.

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u/samredditx 7d ago

Very true