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JohnWell-said Ted!
Ted I guess you and I are out of luck no one will want our stuff, oh well. A PA man huh? Me as well Ted, explain why we aren’t getting together and swapping cards and drinking coffee in open cups (around all these un-protected cards)
There is also a flip side PC to your scenario regarding cards which were thought to be 7’s which came back 4’s etc.
Crack out your 7’s 8’s and 9’s and have a nobody submit them, curious to see how many get slabbed at the same tier again, if not submitted by a large dealer.
In fact how many 9's are 9's if 100% un-altered would come back a 9 again, and not an 8, 7 or even a 6?
I have some graded cards, mostly because the ones I buy are already graded and I’m too lazy to crack them out. I don’t wear the fact that 95% of my collection is un-graded like a badge either. I however do see some serious issues with grading, all of which I will not go into here, I see it like trying to convince a religious person that God doesn’t exist. You can try but most of the time you’re just spinning your wheels.
With that said I can assure that the past 20+ years of collecting has given me the ability accurately grade cards better than 95% of the graders that any of the grading companies have. Could one slip by me…sure never said I was perfect, but you know what? They slip by the grading companies too!
As for raw, well one was bought raw last year and one was bought graded. Take a guess which one cost a $100?
For the record I’m a card collector not a grade collector, I think that’s a fundamental difference here with the way some of us collect.
I think my collection and me are going to be just fine, but thanks for the advice.