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Originally Posted by BobC
In supposedly providing a completely unbiased and equal service to ALL submitters, it should take approximately the exact same amount of time and efforts to grade and slab a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle card as it does for say a common '52 Topps card from the low series. So why the huge difference in grading fees? This is an absolutely inexcusable, direct bias and conflict of interest on the part of the TPGs, yet the hobby community forgives and allows it to happen anyway.
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PSA and the others charge higher fees for higher priced cards for the simple reason that it’s within their economic reality to do so.
If every ‘52 Mantle #311 submitted cost $25 to grade, they would likely be immediately inundated with every marginally ignorant collector flooding their offices with fakes to see what might happen “just in case” it’s real. The fees effectively prevent this on ‘52 Mantles, and a host of other pricey vintage and modern cards - and I don’t blame them in the least for taking that approach.
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