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hankronI don't have a problem with the "authentic" grade. It would be nice if they had qualifiers on the label: "authentic- trimmed," "authentic-recolored," etc. But they would at least have to explain in general on the website the significance of the term, and what types cards do and don't get the grade.
I beleive there can be a variety of grading systems, and one grader doesn't have to mimic the other. All that matters is that the grade is understanable, well explained and the label is accurate. As no grader can be 100 percent accurate, and they know this, I don't beleive that there will ever be a day that a grader doesn't reject a percentage of cards for grading. So, this won't be a cure all, where everything a collector mails in, except reprints and counterfeits, will be returned in a holder. It just allows some to many altered cards to be holdered as authentic.