Another 9.6 with no grader notes!

[TheeBaldMoose]

I'm starting to reach higher levels of frustration regarding CGC and their grading system. First, I have no problem with receiving a 9.6, if that's the way they grade it, I'm fine with it. My biggest problem is now this makes 3 9.6's I've received, with zero graders notes. No reasoning, no nothing. So, I call CGC, and the only thing they can say is that it clearly states graders MAY leave notes.

Seriously, how can I get better at picking 9.8's if they don't leave me a few notes on WHY they graded the way they did? Maybe I wouldn't be so frustrated if the books I had graded weren't so important to me. This latest one was a bit of a white whale, one of my top three Sigs I've been hunting for, and by sigs, I mean meet and greet/coffee/conversation.

The book, X-O Manowar #15 1:50 corrected, the signature, Kekai Kotaki.

Do you realize, he's only ever done two comic books in his entire life? Both are Valiant! So tracking him down and getting his signature and a chance to talk to him was epic (in my mind), guess I just wanted the 9.8 to put an exclamation point on the whole experience. Like I said, I would be fine with the 9.6, if I could know why.

Maybe it's just me, but have you had these experiences?

[lobo]

I'm starting to reach higher levels of frustration regarding CGC and their grading system. First, I have no problem with receiving a 9.6, if that's the way they grade it, I'm fine with it. My biggest problem is now this makes 3 9.6's I've received, with zero graders notes. No reasoning, no nothing. So, I call CGC, and the only thing they can say is that it clearly states graders MAY leave notes.

Seriously, how can I get better at picking 9.8's if they don't leave me a few notes on WHY they graded the way they did? Maybe I wouldn't be so frustrated if the books I had graded weren't so important to me. This latest one was a bit of a white whale, one of my top three Sigs I've been hunting for, and by sigs, I mean meet and greet/coffee/conversation.

The book, X-O Manowar #15 1:50 corrected, the signature, Kekai Kotaki.

Do you realize, he's only ever done two comic books in his entire life? Both are Valiant! So tracking him down and getting his signature and a chance to talk to him was epic (in my mind), guess I just wanted the 9.8 to put an exclamation point on the whole experience. Like I said, I would be fine with the 9.6, if I could know why.

Maybe it's just me, but have you had these experiences?

Honestly, it will come from experience on how to tell. I can usually pick out the 9.6 flaw, even through the CGC case, knocking it down from a 9.8

[nycjadie]

I agree. I can almost always tell a 9.6 from a 9.8, maybe 98% of the time. They used to not do grader notes for notes for 9.6s at all, so you kind of had to just get really good at spotting. That being said, there are those 2% that drive me crazy.