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Originally Posted by BobC

Very well said!

Will add one thing in regard to your last asterisked comment about why TPGs won't just offer authentic grades and continue to give numeric ones, their contingent pricing fee schedules. With numeric grades they can also declare and charge more for grading a card based on the perceived value difference of the exact same card in say a "7" versus an "8" or "9" grade. If they simply just grade everything as authentic, how can they get away charging more for one card over another similar card then? And this contingent grading fee also should make ALL their grading opinions worthless as any of the TPGs that follow such a fee grading schedule are clearly not completely independent nor totally unbiased when it comes to giving their opinions on grading cards. And that last statement isn't a question or an opinion, it is an absolute truth!

Thanks Bob, very true. There is a contingent of collectors out there who cannot for the life of them understand why it costs more to grade a '52 Mantle than it does a '23 Series 1 Aaron Judge. If nothing else this is where the business model just takes over - because they can, and many of those same collectors will pay through the nose for it. Nothing is truly unbiased - correct.