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Posted By: <b>jdrum</b><p>have a hard time convincing me that the grading companies spend any more time on a card based upon the tier or value. I have always thought the &quot;tier based on value&quot; was the grading companies way of participating in the secondary value of the card.

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Posted By: <b>barrysloate</b><p>Greg- what you said is very interesting, and I never considered it. You're saying a forger could deliberately undervalue an altered card on the submission form, thus directing it to an inexperienced grader. Boy, it's tough to think of every trick.

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Posted By: <b>Frank Wakefield</b><p>If you pay $200 to get a card graded, then you have too much money and insufficient appreciation for money.

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Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>&quot;If you pay $200 to get a card graded, then you have too much money and insufficient appreciation for money.&quot;<br><br>Frank, <br>That statement is simply naive. You don't have to like grading, but it is difficult to deny that a $200 grading fee can more that pay for itself when a card sells for tens of thousands of dollars more graded than it would have raw.<br>JimB

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Posted By: <b>CoreyRS.hanus</b><p>And I always thought the rationale behind grading was to have a competent company opine as to the card's condition and authenticity. Now based on what's been said it would seem that at least in regard to PSA (anybody know how SGC works), the reliability behind the slab depends on the tier the card was graded in. And on the lowest tier sit graders who it seems are not qualified to make judgments about certain kinds of alterations. I suppose its just a matter of time before we start to see auction houses exploiting this situation by touting how the grade PSA assigned one of its offerings should be taken more seriously because it was evaluated in the highest grading tier.<br><br>