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Posted By: CoreyRS.hanus

The concept behind grading I thought was to have a disinterested third party opine as to a card's condition and authenticity. Clearly there will be a preception this may not be happening if the grading company is also the seller. In the case at hand, yes it's possible Beckett graded the cards when they did not own them; so they were disinterested when they assigned the cards a grade. But who knows? If I were them, I would find it in my economic interest to have the cards crossed over by either SGC or PSA, for the sole reason of eliminating any perception among potential buyers that the grades were not impartially assigned.