Posted By:
Charlie BarokasJim,
Since I know you do not want to hold the rest of the hobby to a higher standard than yourself. Will you be willing to have Kevin inspect each and every one of your 25,000 plus graded cards prior to making a private sale and or putting them up for auction?
If you won't commit to the above you really have no business telling any other auction house what cards they should or cannot auction.
Grading is an opinion. Kevin might draw a different opinion about some of your 10 year old graded cards than the guy who graded thme in th 90's. Then what?
A graded baseball card comes with two things...an opinion from the grading company regarding condition and the branding of said company. Both things determine the value of the underlying baseball card.
Since an auction house cannot possibly see the card out of the holder to agree or disagree with the opinion of the grading company...the branding and the market acceptability is what the auction house uses to market the card in their auction.
The bidder in said auction...must balance what he/she sees in the scan with what credibility he gives the grading company. If either of those two things appear not right don't bid on the card.
CB