Posted By:
Frank WakefieldJim,
Scott said, "for instance, a pop report will accurately show how many of the highest grade exists...."
The pop report doesn't accurately do that. That is what the discourse with him is about. As soon as one of the highest cards is broken out, crossed over, lost or destroyed, then it is no longer accurate.
So what you've taken exception to is a ways down into the discourse. Those reports aren't accurate. And even though folks who embrace professionally graded cards as near holy relics, some folks don't hold them in such high regard, and things happen to those slabs. Me thinking a flood got a slabbed card seems less ludicrous to me than thinking that the reports for highest graded are accurate. Again, they may accurately reflect what they've graded (assuming they assemble the reports with greater precision than they utilize in card grading and identification), but NOT accurate as to what exists.