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Originally Posted by Fred
For clarification - the cards I purchased were GRADED already, but through the slab I can tell they're altered.
If I felt a card was altered, I wouldn't bother submitting it for grading. I haven't submitted cards for grading in a long time now because it's a total zoo and the more I read about it, the more I stay away from submissions.
My grading standards are very strict, I don't need a TPG to tell me what grade a card is. I'm going to guess that most old time collectors probably feel the same. We don't need a TPG telling us what to think. Unfortunately, many cards worth collecting are being graded so we have no choice but to purchase slabbed cards if we're trying to reach a collecting goal and want to add something to our collections.
I also purchase raw cards but I usually ask for good scans of the cards if I can't see the card in person.
Doug - you are so right - these TPGs are "opinion sellers". Perhaps another way to think of them is as "influencers". It's laughable, large segments of the collecting public follow these TPG "influencers" like people (without a thought of their own) follow social media influencers. It seems kind of mindless, especially now that things are getting to that point of total absurdity with the slabbing of altered cards that, with a little more evaluation, probably should have been slabbed with an ALTERED label and not a numerical number (especially undersized high grade crap).
Oh yeah, as the saying goes, every thread should have a nice picture of a vintage card...
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Also a great post Fred, and love the choice of cards. LOL Nothing like a completely unbiased and independent opinion on a graded card, right? And to maybe clarify and exemplify my point about independence and bias in grading, we can look right to the company grading that card you posted. Wasn't there a particular individual that was behind/helped found a particular grading company? And didn't that individual at one time have what was regarded as one of the finest, if not the finest, graded T206 collection in the world? So, who graded all his cards?
I rest my case!