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Plastic DogI couldn't disagree more. I think the set registry stuff is a bunch of crap. All it does is encourage people to get cards slabbed that wouldn't otherwise need to be entombed. And in the coin market, it has driven the price of high end coins way out of whack so that people can say "their set is better than somebody else's set." Have you actually watched the nonesense being discussed on the Collector's Universe board about PSA registry? And what is going to constitute a set of vintage cards, anyway? Do you have to split apart your Berk Ross pairs so that you can get them graded and entombed? What about strip cards? Is this going to require cutting up those nice strips of 10 so that they can be in an SGC holder? And can a rookie registry set ever really be complete if many rookie cards are unique (e.g. 1894 Alpha Photo McGraw) or if they actually exist in sizes that the grading companies can't accomodate (Centennial Flour cards, for example, for that nice PCL collection)?
I like SGC, but this is bad for the hobby.