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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
AL, a decade after this meeting, I guess the conclusion is inevitable -- collectors don't really want the hobby clean. Even less so now that so many are investors. And as a whole (with some notable exceptions such as yourself), the industry doesn't want to clean itself up either. I should just give up my own meager efforts because the windmill is going to win. Thanks for the perspective, sobering but necessary.
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The most powerful force I can think of to solve most anything is market force -- people acting in the manner most consistent with their economic interests. How does that pertain here? If and when there is a TPG alternative that through the use of technology can weed out alterations, then to hold value cards will have to reholdered by this new method.
Yes, I recognize that there is skepticism such a new grading method will come into being. But let's proceed on the assumption that it does come into being. It would not then be up to the seller to determine what grading method will create the most value for his/her card. It would be up to the buyer, and what rational buyer would not prefer the card in the new TPG holder, all other things being equal (
e.g., player, issue, grade).
What am I missing with this analysis?
Edited to add that what I am saying
IS consistent with the notion
"that it is all about the money". The incentive to create a new TPG using technology to weed out alterations is because the founder(s) of such a company I believe can make a lot of
money. And should that come to pass, then what buyer before spending his/her
money on a high grade vintage card would not want to see it in this new TPG's holder?