Freeman, Thank you for explaining the purpose of comic book slabbing. I could never understand why people would encapsulate their comics, thus rendering them unreadable. It defeats the purpose of having the comic book in the first place. Maybe they will start slabbing 78 RPM records next.
I don't want to see slabbed lobby cards, and I don't expect it to happen. I consider poster collecting to be sort of a sickness to begin with. Why make it worse by having people obsess over the exact grading of their items? -rk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:09:44 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MOPO] SLABBING SHOULD BE VIGOROUSLY REJECTED Slabbing. Bruce has offered up this subject so I'll bite. Why slabbing for lobby cards? I am to understand for coins, comics and trading cards, there existed a pervasive malaise in accurate condition reveal. With internet sales exploding, for comics, with multiple pages, a lot of sins were frequently overlooked and it was impacting the industry. So if I recall correctly, Heritage hosted a major comic auction and virtually all the items were slabbed and results were impressive Slabbing established its foothold. Now the company(ies) (are their still two?) who grade and slab are a business.....and expansion of their supposed impartial grading to other paper formats is critical for their long-term foothold into the future. So just because they claim their is a problem are we as sellers just going to drop to our knees and rejoice that the Calvary is here to purge the cancer of egregious inaccuracies in the sales of lobby cards? For comics, fine, there existed a serious problem in accurate condition and grading within their sales universe and most agree it saved the biz. But I do not see anywhere that kind of skullduggery or mis-representation with the majority of auction houses or sellers present regarding movie material. So why jack up one's "cost of goods" with the additional fees for grading and slabbing, never mind additional insured postage. So if any auction house tries to instigate........I cannot shout loud enough to not bid.........tell your clients to not bid as well. If the prices don't deliver watch how fast they drop that idea. Our business is not broke, occasionally a tweek here or there is necessary but otherwise I think most people are happy with how sales are conducted. If they are not they will go to another that delivers to their expectations. Accepting the concept of slabbing is akin to saying "were too indifferent and stupid to police our industry .......we need third party intervention.......take our hard earned monies ........we're lobby card lemmings without conscience or backbone. And besides, I like how I frame my lobby cards and window cards and that doesn't include a a half inch thick rectangular slab with bar scans stuck in plain view more appropriate for display on retail racks for expensive Monster Cables not treasured lobby cards. SLABBING= Irrelevant, unnecessary, an imposition, costly and demeaning. freeman fisher 8601 west knoll drive #7 west hollywood, ca 90069 See what's free at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503> . Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
