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Posted By: Richard

Brett and Ted,

While you may not be a fan of grading, I am a fan. A big fan. Every single pre-war card in my possession is graded, and I love it. I love the smell of the plastic, feeling the hard cold smoothness rubbing between my fingers.

I love pop reports. I discount them to a degree due to the cracking and resubmitting that goes on, but it allows me to get a rough idea on overall populations. They are good for comparing issues - ie. e90-2, while tough, is probably in the ballpark to easier than e90-1.

For those of us who are not dinosaurs and do not have 30 years of history in the prewar arena, pop reports are a good way to get an idea of how tough, how easy and how condition sensitive certain issues really are.