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Jeff LichtmanEric, I agree with you. These numbers are pretty important at all grades so why not figure out a way to show them all? What is most troubling about the pop reports, obviously, is that due to the crack outs/resubmissions, etc. the numbers are certainly higher than what reality is. Considering how the values of cards go up as the pop numbers go down, a false reading will cause the value of a particular card at a particular grade to go down due to the falsely inflated number, perhaps to never recover. Other than typos, you don't have situations where the pop reports underrepresent the population of a card at a particular grade. It's a shame that such an important factor on certain significant cards might be forever skewed, thus forever falsely impacting values.