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John Kal The cards I buy are too expensive to buy raw. If I bought my recently purchased '48 Leaf Ted PSA 7 raw (at a show or on eBay) it would almost assuredly be trimmed. It's happened to me a few times and I refuse to buy nice old cards ungraded. SGC is more consistant than PSA and makes fewer mistakes, but I trust them both to protect me from the altered card. GAI--I have my doubts. I think PSA has become too big and corporate and slip-ups happen, but PSA cards hold or increase in value. Buy the card, not the grade. Grading is not the only reason prices are up: nice old cards are drying up and more people are after them.