Are grading companies giving out 8 grades or higher on cards pre 1960 anymore?

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12-09-2022, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Lorewalker

Graders have adjusted to seeing mostly nearly perfect pack fresh cards all day long thereby distorting their perspective.

This is what I think is mostly the cause. They see so much "perfect" or "near perfect" stuff that they start using more range to define those, and ultimately it ends up compressing the mid- and low-grade stuff into fewer tiers. (To combat this, they could start using more half-grades, but that's probably too easy a suggestion to implement.)

Anyway, as the saying goes, buy the card, not the slab.

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