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MattJosh said: "1. I disagree with your implication regarding sgc and why they are getting 9s. Specifically that we must be considering something other than grading alone if SGC undergrades cards.
2. I disagree with your comment that people arent answering the question - except to the extent that GAI is being more harshly graded than I think they otherwise would due to their recent closing. That said, I think GAI would still come in last among the big 3 and possibly even behind bvg even if they had not closed their doors for a week and lost everyone's confidence. I think this would be true even if the only focus was their grading ability because for all of Mike's purported expertise (of which I dont have any first hand knowledge) GAI still mostly gets it wrong from what Ive observed, heard from others, etc."
Josh
I never claimed point #1 - I was answering why GAI was getting low grades not why SGC was getting high ones.
Regarding your second point - you say you disagree and then in the same sentence you agree - if people are grading GAI lower because of their recent customer service fiasco then they're not answering the question of being accurate graders - they're answering a question about confidence in sending them cards which was exactly my point.
I don't think continuing our conversation has any value to the other board denizens, so we can continue offline if you want.