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Originally Posted by Gorditadogg
By my own standards, I weight color, focus and centering (which are easier to see from a picture than the technical irregularities the TPG's evaluate) much more than wrinkles and other surface irregularities. So I guess I am happy they spend their time on those things, so their grade gives me a good baseline before I look at it.
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It's true that color and focus issues should be more obvious when looking to buy even at scans online - but if grading is supposed to at least loosely correlate with eye appeal, to me it is deceptive when certain factory issues are judged harshly by graders, and others are largely overlooked. Fading I guess is different.
Agreed I can pick most of those things out by myself, but it goes to the continued necessity of the adage "Technical grading is not eye appeal" being used as a disclaimer.
That's a super nice '66 Mantle!