I hear what Bruce is saying, but from what I have seen the overwhelming majority of cards (assuming they are not altered, see below) are graded right, or close enough to right, by PSA and SGC. And I think they perform a valuable service in picking up little wrinkles, paper loss etc. that I might miss particularly from a scan. For this reason when buying remotely I would almost never buy a raw card.
My bigger concern is and has been that some altered cards do get through the process, by anyone's definition of altered.
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