Gnat the Beggar wrote:...I did not and I would suspect I am not the only one either....
stratochamp wrote:to me lamination means it is a reading copy only, i.e. poor condition....
mbassoc2003 wrote:All that said, I have seen really professional laminants applied to 80's collectables, and I did sell a UK Basic with a fairly professionally applied laminate to the cover with no decernable drop in value...
mbassoc2003 wrote:The other question to ask is, are you more agrieved at losing percieved investment value than you are in having paid more than you would have paid had you known?I once paid maybe $200 over the odds for a PoVQ, shelling out for a ziplock 1st print what I should have paid for a black foldered 1st. I subsequently sold it on at a $200 loss, but I chalked it up to my own inexperience, and in the grand scheme of things Somethimes I've lost a chunk, and sometimes I've made a big profit. Maybe if I didn't take the chances and lost occasionally, I wouldn't have the nerve to take the chances and win when I win big time.
stratochamp wrote:while we are on the topic of grading, i do not agree with the acaeum grading parameters. while i of course see the need for an industry standard, i personally find the description used for fair, would be better applied to poor. in the good category there is a reference to mustiness: i would never allow a musty smelling item to co-mingle with my lovelies (even though all module sized items go in their own bag). not including magazines, i probably have only 10 items that are worse than VG by the acaeum standard (so yes David, i too like my reading copies better than poor; the point i was attempting to make was that from my perspective a laminated cover is a ruined cover).
Invincible Overlord wrote:You'd have to break them out of the shrink to have them be called... Reading Copies....
JasonZavoda wrote:Mustiness/Mold means worthless trash to me. Not even reading copies, and storing something like that can trasnfer mold spores. You don't want to be breathing that stuff. It is a pain in the ass to see something ruined, especially a well loved or valuable item, but sometimes it happens and the place for a book or game like that is the garbage.
faro wrote: Invincible Overlord wrote:You'd have to break them out of the shrink to have them be called... Reading Copies.... Laughing*lol*Does Bill not have the tech installed to read books and boxes inside their shrink? Would come in rather useful, that. Wink