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Posted By: Hankron

This situation illustrates a comical (to me) bias in the trading card hobby.

Firstly, I have no objection to sellers holdering and labelling their own cards, and I have no reason to beleive that this particular seller is not honest and fair and accurate.

To many collectors' sensibilites, if a seller sells the card in a top loader it would be 'raw.' But if the same seller puts the same card in a fancy holder with a fancy label with a three-letter acronym and assigns the same grade, the card is now longer 'raw' but 'graded' and, thus worth more.