Just to double my confusion I finally signed up for a membership with PSA, and started browsing through the SMR price list. Some of those numbers seem absurd vs real world transactions.
It's funny, but when I first waded back in to this hobby and saw how grading and authenticating had become de riguer in many ways I felt like things were really much more regulated and controlled vs when I started out 30 years ago. Now, after a few months of reading and researching the opposite seems true. The whole grading things seems like a slimy sub-industry to me, which you have to embrace in many cases but certainly would be foolish to trust.
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