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Old 06-01-2019, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by drcy View Post
There should be no guarantees beyond competency in the graders and authenticators. They are offering third party opinions and the hobby should treating grading as such.

Grading and authenticating companies should not be, and never should have been, in the insurance business, as that corrupts the authentication and grading process and opinions.
Why in your view does it corrupt anything? All they're doing is standing behind their work, to me if anything it creates incentives to do the best job possible. Wouldn't it create more problems if there were no consequences to being wrong?
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