[drc]

I thing changing grading systems for certain cards, especially certain cards involving big money and well healed buyers and sellers, is bad for the grading company. Somewhere down the road some pipsqueak on eBay or some chat board is going to say, "Yeah, well know PSA does gives grading favors for certain companies and people in the hobby," and people are going to say, or at least think to themselves, "This poster's an obnoxious twit, but he has a valid point."

Doing stuff like this just gives credence to and fuels the conspiracy theories that exist in any hobby.

My personal opinion is that raising grade scales for certain cards is really, really bad, for many reasons. In my opinion it defies the very reasons and foundations for having a standard grading system, it's unethical, it looks bad and is getting close to sleazy.