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Posted By: identify7

Certainly Davidbreadman, your contentions regarding the viability and advisability of gathering relatively high graded baseball cards is arguable. Actually, I buy it (but I won't by them - I am on a different mission).

However, your statements regarding population information appears to me to include a bit of wishful thinking:"Population reports are invaluable and a must to gain proper market information. I also beleive that as the market becomes more efficient there will be less and less high grade raw cards as owners look to 'legitimize' their cards by getting them graded. It will become a must if you want to sell your card for its full value. This will increase the accuracy and quality of information gained in population reports."

Specifically, I believe that the accuracy of these reports will be increasingly worsened as the difference in between grade values makes it cost effective to try multiple submissions of the same card, in order to achieve a higher grade.