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Originally Posted by WhenItWasAHobby
Hi Barry,
Nice to hear from you.
Your experience back then was the same as mine. My observation over several years with piles of evidence to prove it was that collectors who initially bought graded cards as a safeguard to prevent buying altered cards were later well aware of the prolific problem of doctored cards in slabs yet still continued to buy the graded cards anyway. It was mind boggling, but I've since learned that this psychological disorder is called cognitive dissonance.
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Cognitive dissonance, or the power of the slab.