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Originally Posted by barrysloate
Hi Gary,
So here is something that still troubles me. If the hobby has reached the point where the slightly altered cards are almost impossible to distinguish from the unaltered ones, then what use does the hobby have for third party graders? We pay them a lot of money to make determinations that many of us don't feel qualified to make ourselves. But it appears that as graders and authenticators they are no more skilled than we are.
So it's starting to look like (and truth be told it's been going on for a long time), all of these machinations are reduced down to one thing: getting the number we want on the slab. The whole hobby is really about that number.
Sorry folks, but it's a sad state of affairs. And I don't like it one bit.
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It could be that graders simply authenticate cards-- something others on Net54 have proposed. That would be a fair service too-- a third party that says the card is authentic.
Of course, the grading companies don't that.