Posted By:
Frank WakefieldWell the thing to do is quit having cards slabbed.
And the next thing is to break those bad boys out whenever you buy a slabbed card.
I used to never buy a slabbed card, but eventually found one I desired (almost typed that lie, "needed"), so I won it on eBay. I was disappointed in myself for buying a slabbed card. But then I realized why God gave us hacksaws...
The real reason cards get slabbed is because they sell better, because uneducated buyers don't have faith in truly knowing what they're buying, they need validation from someone else. If collectors would learn their stuff and buy unslabbed cards just as willingly as the slabbed, then the grading companies would go away.
Slabbing reminds me of Dutch tulip futures of years past.
I know I'm in the minority on this. Just because a majority feels a certain way, it does not mean they are correct, they are merely in the majority. Sometimes the majority is wrong.