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Posted By: jeffdrum

I think that there are two different answers. If you are buying raw from a dealer that only sells raw then I would anticipate his/her grading standards to be more in style with the old days, in other words their EX may very well be VG+/VGEX by the grading companies standards. If you are buying raw from a dealer who also sells graded cards and if it it a high dollar card then I always assume that they have tried to have it graded and it never came back as high as they thought it should. Hence they crack it out, assign their grade and move on.

I would always anticipate on the safe side that the cards are going to grade out lower per the grading companies than what they are assigned raw.