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But you have to recognize that PSA and SGC may not be around in 5, 10, 15, 50, 100 years from now. The further out you go, the less likely they'll be there. Grading serves immediate and short term goals (ensuring fair sales, etc.) better than long-term prospects of value. For this reason, people who spend a lot of money on good population report cards that are already suspect in 2008 really are not taking a step back and trying to understand the future of their collections beyond the immediate time frame. If you're going to be selling in the near term, it makes sense. But if you are collecting to hold for years or decades or beyond, then what grading means will certainly be different in the future.

I love SGC and hope they'll be around forever. But when my kids inherit my cards in 50+ years (hopefully) it is anybody's guess whether SGC will exist, and even if they do, what an SGC 60 T206 card means in 2008 will almost certainly be different than what it will mean in 2058.



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