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Posted By: Joann

It seems to me that grading companies include the ability to buy with confidence among their selling points. The whole point of the process is to remove subjective differences in opinion between buyer and seller. If you don't have that one simple thing, then pretty much all the grading process contributes is protection for cards and a competitive basis for registry participants.

Buyers buy graded cards and pay more for them precisely because the subjective opinion of the seller is removed from the transaction. So now the seller should also be responsible if the buyer also has a subjective difference of opinion with the grader?

I agree with points above that sellers do need to disclose substantial mistakes by the graders that would defeat the purpose of grading, and that it may be good business sense to accept a return anyway.

But I can certainly see why a seller won't take back a card as an obligation just because the buyer wants to claim disagreement with the grader. If the buyer gets to receive a card, decide whether the card's condition is worth what he paid, and return the card if he feels he paid too much ... then what do we need grading companies for? Isn't this the exact situation that gave rise to the industry in the first place? Can't have it both ways.

Joann