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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards
I appreciate the thought, and even considered the "not selling cards the company graded" route. The problem with that would be if the grading company became successful and developed a reputation for missing very few altered cards, and my company refuses to sell them. My own success in one venture would actually harm the other venture. Not to mention having to turn down consignments with cards from the grading company. There's just no way to make it work that I can see.
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My thought is that such a grading company is so badly needed, and has so much profit potential, that as you grow the grading service you gradually transition out of the dealer business. Then you're a major force in the hobby with no possible conflicts, supporting your family well, collecting whatever you want for your own collection, all with the satisfaction that you're not just making customers happy by selling them cards, you're giving them a comfort level with the purchases they are making.
On your 100th birthday, looking back, which would be a more satisfying legacy? I'm not saying it would be easy or that success would be guaranteed, but eventually somebody will do it. It sure isn't in the best interest for existing TPG to add new technological testing methods to their process that would reveal all the alterations they missed..... So, whomever does start this new, high tech grading service.... for everybody's sake the #1 priority must be integrity.
On a side note, could black light or infrared reveal modern foreign substances like coloring, rebuilt corners, or bleach through a plastic holder? Wouldn't it be cool if it could, and someone could set up at The National with a machine where, for $5.00, people could put their PSA or other graded cards under the lights for a quick alteration detection scan?