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Posted By: barrysloate

Frank- first off, I would be happy to dine with you if you come to the city. We can even get a Net54 dinner together around such a visit.

Regarding card grading I am not completely against it, but see it as a very mixed blessing. For every problem it's corrected, it's created one or two new ones.

If it were my call, and it's not, I think graders should do nothing more than authenicate a card. Protecting consumers from fraud is an extremely important and valuable service. But I would do away with the numbers. In that respect they have not done a very good job, and they haven't convinced me that they know anything more about grading than any advanced collector does. And even in the field of authentication, we've discovered they still have a long way to go. The examples on the board regarding the T206 Plank and Doyle are exhibits A and B.