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Posted By: TBob

Unless you are planning on selling them on ebay in which case there will be an increase in the bidding proportionately. Take a "raw" T206 in EXMT and offer it for sale. Take the same card and have PSA make it a "6". Compare selling prices. That's the only reason for using grading services I can see. They have graded so many trimmed cards and misidentified (especially PSA) so many cards and allowed a "good old boy" system to flourish in their grading that I find it an utter waste of time. I have cracked open several PSA and SGC slabs this week of both tobacco and caramel cards, from vg to nrmt. They look nice in the holders (especially SGC) but otherwise, if they are going in your collection, they are an utter waste of time. The one redeeming feature, I guess, comes from several posters who like the fact their cards are protected from dings, spills and inadvertent creasing or abuse.
Bah humbug to them.