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Originally Posted by perezfan
Strongly disagree...
Yesterday's "4" (obvious creasing, paper loss, round corners, heavy soiling, dull color, poor registration):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/145235228744
Today's "4" (no creasing or wrinkles, no paper loss, no soiling, good corners, great color and registration):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/375976800862
Make no mistake... The grading standards have changed by 2-3 full points over the past decade. |
Those are outlier examples and are in no way indicative of the average or standard for that grade, then or now. You can find images of 4s from 25 years ago that look just like your second example, and pictures of cards from today that look like your first one. I agree that grading has overall gotten a little harsher, it is not nearly as extreme as your outliers make it appear. Never use the exception to prove the rule.