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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Joe, a better question would be why do folks put much faith at all in graded cards when their own skill at ascertaining authenticity and condition is or should be greater. What happens here is that someone sees the slab and starts out assuming that the card is all there. That assumption would not have happened had the card been in its original, unslabbed state. (I don't care for the term 'raw', it carries with it an implication that there is more to be done to the card, like one might cook it or something. I think 'original unslabbed' is more accurate, since these cards weren't distributed slabbed.)