Posted By:
Mike Williams Great, constructive debate over the SGC "authentic" topic!
I'm now wondering what we all did BEFORE there was such a business as card grading? It seems to me that a great deal of our hobby relies so much on the slabbed label, that we've given up the right to grade the card ourselves. The argument that slabbed cards deemed authentic (not graded) would cause more debate on condition really is no different than the situation we have now. How many times has a seller made reference to a graded card being "undergraded.....should have been X"? I'm guilty of this and I'm more than sure everyone on this board has seen this....or participate in it.
Grading will always be subjective....it's the sellers responsibility to accurately describe a card, it's the buyers responsibility to ask questions. This will never be a science, but I think we've grown too dependent on a label. OK....kick my butt now 