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Posted By: MW

Nixon,

Try not to get too carried away here. Let's not regress back to the days of full page SCD ads filled with ungraded "Mint" condition 1933 Goudey Ruths and "Gem Mint" Hank Aaron rookies...or that certain St. Louis dealer who used to sell "Gem Mint" condition, heavily slabbed vintage baseball cards by the truckload.

With the current eBay environment, I can only imagine what things would be like WITHOUT any standardized grading. There'd be complete chaos. Those sellers who had the sharpest scissors would also have the biggest bank accounts.

Eliminating third party grading would be analogous to legitimizing card doctoring and effectually instituting it as an acceptable (and prevalent) art form. Buying an expensive, unaltered vintage baseball card on eBay would be no easier than fitting Anna Nicole Smith in a size 3 dress.