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DJSo let me get this right? We get a card slabbed and then we send it off to get the slab graded?
So basically what we are accomplishing is disagreeing with the original authenticator's grade? So a 5 may be a 4 or vice versa and we have to pay yet more on top of the original price of the purchase?
In five years, we will perhaps be thinking about adding another layer of sorts.
Plus, won't it be a tad biased if the people grading the graded cards are collectors and sellers themselves?
I agree with much of what was said above as far as this being a pipe dream. There is way too much independence here and while it's never bad to get second opinions, I can only see a grand carnival the first time a grading card company disagrees a few points down. And what about a "certified" dealer being fined? I think he'll love that.
There are certain organizations with the Autograph structure but it works to a certain degree, but who is anyone of us kidding, bad stuff gets passed along and it's tough to prove who is correct and who isn't correct.
This is beginning to look like a tad like Orwell's "Animal Farm" and when the operation gets the first taste of the apples and milk, is when everything goes to hell. Perhaps. Perhaps I'm wrong.
DJ