ehh... don't give up. The way you respond to that is with something along these lines:
Thanks for clarifying for me the nature of the difficulty you have in grading these. I can certainly understand your wanting to know information about the items being graded so that you can be in a position to reliably certify.
Let me ask you then exactly what information you need? It would be a simple matter for us at nintendoage to provide you with a database of page counts, posters, and inserts for every issue of Nintendo Power. You are correct that many issues did come with a poster. In most cases there were no other significant inserts, only loose (not attached to the magazine) subscription cards and such, which I assume wouldn't be of interest.
I'd like to make this happen and look forward to working with you.
I tried with similar words via phone but to no avail. Asking for someone senior was useless as well as that person I was talking to would probably get the burden of sh*t work from the higher ups if our request went through. I'm determined to get my NP 1 in a CGC case. =P
Going to copy your words back to the same guy. Better I have it in writing anyway.
WTB Cdn sealed black boxes, sealed Cdn first party titles. I.e. the "mattel" Cdn boxes with both french and english. Mainly black boxes, zelda, link, and tyson, but let me know what you have. I am interested in anything I don't already have!
Okay I won't carry on this convo here anymore we're derailing the derailment of Fri, lol.
I'll take up with Bronty PM later but here is the final from this dude. Bronty his name is Eric Downtown...