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Posted By: T206Collector

You guys are missing the point.

Grading is designed to add an objective and neutral third party opinion to every baseball card transaction involoving a card with hidden or not readily identifiable flaws.

If you use grading for any other reason, then you are bound to get frustrated by subjective considerations like "eye appeal".

Now since we are dealing with humans and not machines, there will always be a subjective component to applying the objective principles of grade. But to suggest that third party grading is primarily subjective would be to suggest that third party grading provides little objective information at all -- which is ostensibly false.

Again, use the numbers on the flip to give you information about what flaws the card has. I can't imagine using them for anything else.





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