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Posted By: barrysloate

Greg touched on an interesting point and that is "what is the market demanding." I don't think you want to turn the marketplace into too much of a democracy because then the grading companies will be bombarded with a hundred different and often contradictory opinions, and that would not work. But the harsh way they grade back damage on blank backed cards and their virtual indifference to photo quality, or in the case of Topps cards aspects of print quality, are almost universally begging for change and I think that would make for an excellent starting point. Grading will ultimately become more precise and the process more complicated, but you don't want it to become so complicated that nobody understands it. Coins are graded on eleven different levels of Uncirculated, from MS-60 to MS-70. How many people in the world can distinguish eleven different shades of the same general condition? It's just too complicated. Grading cards hopefully won't get that bogged down.