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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I sold a few of my OJs. The ones I sold were graded by SGC before they went into the acution. 3 HOFers were sold. I still have one HOFer and a few others. My point is that Grading doesn't randomly happen to all cards out there. Some collectors grade all of their cards. Some collectors only grade cards they're about to sell. I was selling the 3 HOFers because the time was right, in my mind, to sell them. When I considered what I had in acquiring the cards, and what I could sell them for, it was no longer any fun to have them. I think this skews the graded population toward HOFers... and also toward better condition cards.

Similarly, resubmissions skew populations. To further mess things up, I've bought a bunch of graded cards that I broke out. They have not been resubmitted. They're in the population report, but no longer in the population of graded cards.