Not to rub it in or anything....

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:46:42 am

...but look what showed up in the mail today...

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:02:16 am

Rufusharley · Post by **Rufusharley** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:13:02 am

That is a hell of an acheivement! I'm sure we all know how hard it would be to do that. Congrats man!

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:14:46 am

Congrats! Er... what exactly does that mean???

-slym

Rufusharley · Post by **Rufusharley** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:49:18 am

It means this.

BrettC · Post by **BrettC** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:00:22 am

Congrats!

Brett

SnotDrip · Post by **SnotDrip** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:21:33 am

Congrats CKB

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:22:15 am

Nice Job!!

Psssssttttt!!! Rico, you slacker, you've got some work to do. You gonna let this guy show you up? Where are your cojones?

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:39:57 am

ckb wrote:...but look what showed up in the mail today...

Looks nice. Congrats. I know we've talked about it before, but I've forgotten, what are the criteria they judge? Is it completeness, quantity or quality? Some combination?

/Magnus

steverino · Post by **steverino** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:34:26 pm

Congrates!

myron · Post by **myron** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:54:31 pm

nice. Good for you C.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:10:10 pm

Rufusharley wrote:It means this.

Okay... what exactly does that mean? CKB is #1, Rico is #2, and Greg is #3. WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? DO they have the most slabbed, the highest grade slabbed, the most of.....?????

-slym

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:28:23 pm

magnusr wrote:
ckb wrote:...but look what showed up in the mail today...
Looks nice. Congrats. I know we've talked about it before, but I've forgotten, what are the criteria they judge? Is it completeness, quantity or quality? Some combination?

/Magnus

Points. Each book is worth a certain number of points roughly based on its market value. If you go to the set page and click on the point value for a book, it will break it out into what points are awarded for each grade.

Rico and Greg have both made great strides recently in catching up to me. I am almost maxed out at all 9.8s in every slot. A Harbinger 1 9.8 or Solar 10 9.8 in my or Rico's set would tip the scales heavily, as points are hard to come by in these sets with most books "pegged" at 9.8.

My WTB posts recently have been aimed at getting the remaining 9.6s up to 9.8s, for the 'affordable' books. Still looking for Magnus 7, Solar 4, and Harbinger 6. I was successful in obtaining a Magnus 8 and 13 recently, the latter thanks to Greg.

Vintage Magnus 2-4 as well, but I'm going to have to submit those myself, or hope sckao gets lucky. No one else would bother trying.

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 1:30:57 pm

slym2none wrote:
Rufusharley wrote:It means this.

Okay... what exactly does that mean? CKB is #1, Rico is #2, and Greg is #3. WHAT DOES IT MEAN??? DO they have the most slabbed, the highest grade slabbed, the most of.....?????

-slym

If you click on the set name for each set, it will break it down for you book by book.

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:29:51 pm

I hate you so very much.

Congrats but watch your back.

gavster · Post by **gavster** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:39:49 pm

Excellent work, a quick question, how long did it take to get to this level from the first CGC Valiant you got or sent off to the latest one.

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:42:43 pm

ckb wrote:Points. Each book is worth a certain number of points roughly based on its market value. If you go to the set page and click on the point value for a book, it will break it out into what points are awarded for each grade.

Slow site, but I got the numbers. I could make a set with about 1000 points. As a completionist I see the temptation...

/Magnus

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:22:08 pm

gavster wrote:Excellent work, a quick question, how long did it take to get to this level from the first CGC VALIANT you got or sent off to the latest one.

All but a handful of the books in my set were submitted personally by me. I've been doing it since....uh...someone help me out here... Greg may remember...2000? 2001?

If I was buying these already slabbed, I doubt that we would have so many sets this near completion. My submissions are responsible for quite a number of books in the registry. I haven't kept formal track, but the number of Valiant CGC slabs I've sold has to exceed 300, and the number in my personal collection exceeds 100.

Not that there are not other significant submitters! They do tend to want more $$ than me for thier slabs as well, though.

It's an interesting question - how long would it take to put together a 9.6+9.8 mixed set just buying off the open market...

96Valiantfan · Post by **96Valiantfan** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:32:22 pm

Very nice Congrats

IMJ · Post by **IMJ** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:34:20 pm

Hang it next to your degree in your office and when your boss asks you what is it, tell him that it was harder to land than the paper next to it! LMAO!!!

Good job!!

Technique · Post by **Technique** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:08:37 pm

Congrats! I'm jealous.

Elveen · Post by **Elveen** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:34:55 pm

as always...... I wanna see pics of the books.....

you got 'em ... I'll probably never see 'em.....

so share 'em.....

just line all the salbbed pre-unis together..... take a shot and post it up.....

(I know it's alot of work.... but you'll be happy after you've done it.....your not showing off..... we know you have the books....)

It's kinda like when Svair posted the pic of Jim singing the Harbys.... we know he did it..... it just so cool to see it.

I'm just asking

cool cert. BTW!

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:34:12 pm

IMJ wrote:Hang it next to your degree in your office and when your boss asks you what is it, tell him that it was harder to land than the paper next to it! LMAO!!!

Good job!!

And more expensive.

tarheelmarine · Post by **tarheelmarine** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:54:40 pm

Elveen wrote:as always...... I wanna see pics of the books.....

you got 'em ... I'll probably never see 'em.....

so share 'em.....

just line all the salbbed pre-unis together..... take a shot and post it up.....

(I know it's alot of work.... but you'll be happy after you've done it.....your not showing off..... we know you have the books....)

It's kinda like when Svair posted the pic of Jim singing the Harbys.... we know he did it..... it just so cool to see it.

I'm just asking

cool cert. BTW!

It would be impressive to see a photo. Congrats!

ckb · Post by **ckb** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:02:17 pm

tarheelmarine wrote:
Elveen wrote:as always...... I wanna see pics of the books.....

you got 'em ... I'll probably never see 'em.....

so share 'em.....

just line all the salbbed pre-unis together..... take a shot and post it up.....

(I know it's alot of work.... but you'll be happy after you've done it.....your not showing off..... we know you have the books....)

It's kinda like when Svair posted the pic of Jim singing the Harbys.... we know he did it..... it just so cool to see it.

I'm just asking

cool cert. BTW!
It would be impressive to see a photo. Congrats!

It's really too hard to do. I would take pictures of the boxes they are in but you can't even read the top slab labels because of the bags the slabs are in.

My collection is in 5 CGC boxes, in alphabetical order, so the pre-unities are scattered. How would you get 50 slabs in a picture worth looking at, anyway?

Maybe I could put some on my display board, but even that thing is a pain to set up. The only reason I did it for the CGC collector newsletter story was because I needed to set the thing up anyway to make new shelves for it before the Chicago show that year.

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