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Posted By: Matt

I believe that Lajoie is the symptom of a grading industry issue, which is that with a few select cards that are going to get a lot of face time (read Grretzky Wagner, this Lajoie, etc), the grading company will intentionally be very lax as it will result in a ton of free branding for them; I could almost see the submitter saying, "well SGC will give me a 50, so if you can do better, I'll go with you." While that is a huge problem on several levels, I haven't seen a PSA slabbed card worth less then $1k with a similar issue (of course, feel free to post 1 and prove me wrong ).