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Jim VBAndy,
You make an awful lot of rash generalizations that seem ridiculous on their face.
I don't know Jim C. I have never met him. I have had a couple of "talks" with him on this board as well as the basketball board. He is as much, if not more, of a collector than anyone else here. He is incredibly knowledgeable on sets of all kinds, both mainstream and obscure. He does like to collect high grade examples, and he likes to "compete" on the registries. So what? How does that make him not a collector?
That's his way of collecting. Who's to say it's better or worse than any other way?
(By the way, statistically, if every PSA card was re-submitted, in theory, 50% would get the 1/2 point bump. Assuming every PSA 8 actually represented some grade between 8.0 and 8.9, half would be moving up to 8.5 upon submission.)