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Posted By: davidcycleback

The foundation of PSA's business is grading cards, and PSA paid Alan Hagar for the rights to use his system of entombing cards with a 1-10 grading scale. In other words, 90+ percent of PSA's business is based on a system borrowed from someone else.

PSA does come up with some new things, but much of there business is based on old ideas. Beleive me, people were authenticating sports autographs before PSA/DNA.

I'm not criticizing PSA. It's just strange for a PSA fan to look down on companies for using others' ideas.