Frank makes a great point about the TPG. Pop report accuract is a moot point. In fact, the crack and resubmit game just helps them out. It streams card grades for a particular card upward as it's cracked and resubmitted. A 7 cracked and submitted 5 times, gets a 7 on (4) of those (5) and an 8 on the 5th time. Now that card shows (5)7's and (1)8. Similar trend on 9's but probably not quite as many although the financial benefit for 8-9 bump is exponentially more than 7-8 bump on most, and especially certain, cards. POP reports may be directionally accurate but you can't take them at face value for sure. Probably a much larger problem in the more popular sets obviously and into the early Topps years.........
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