Posted By:
leonHey Trevor,
I appreciate the response on the topic. Yours is a valued opinion. (BTW for the record I have not spoken with Derek about any specific question on the board yet.) These thoughts are my own and I am doing this because I have wanted to get cards authenticated without a grade before. I think mine was originally a different reason than that of a lot of other folks though. Sort of like getting to the same conclusion but for different reasons. Anywho, with all due respect I think you might be forgetting about the good will, the extra revenue (while some fixed costs will remain the same-amortization(sp?)), differentiator value, etc.. You do make some good points about them saving money though on ungraded/slabbed cards. I never really thought about that. How would you feel about the grades like you said of "authentic- altered", "authentic- colored, altered" etc...? Maybe they could charge $5.00 extra to recoup costs? On a <$500 card it would seem worth it. Just some thoughts.....we'll see....