[53toppscollector]

I know this isn't the place to rant about grading companies, but if I were designing a grading company from scratch, I would make the priority to authenticate cards and determine if they are altered. Anything beyond that seems to add very little actual value to a collector. PSA's grading inconsistency is very well known at this point, and we've all seen plenty of cards that look undergraded and overgraded, and there is no rhyme or reason to it. You don't get any kind of explanation as to why your card got the grade it did.

At this stage of my collecting existence, I want to know if the cards I have are real, and if they have been trimmed or re-colored. Beyond that, it doesn't matter. PSA's real stroke of genius was to create the set registry, and to then control the population on very desirable cards, trying to spark that competitive streak in people to get them to always search for that elusive higher grade, low population card for their registry.