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Old 07-07-2022, 04:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jchcollins View Post
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!
Yep, and if I was born a Buffett I'd be a billionaire.

And thanks on the Mantle. If I post a hi-res photo some people on here could probably find the flaw right off, but it took me a couple weeks. Maybe the extra .5 is because of eye appeal, I don't know.

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