If You Started A Grading/Authentication service today...

[drcy]

Make sure it is never a publically traded company, so stock prices et al are never a part of the grading and authenticating and information process.

It should be a non-profit group (Which does not mean graders and workers don't get paid a fair salary and that money can't be invested back into the system).

It should have an outside board of directors who are concerned with the authentication and grading accuracy and process and how to disseminate that information to the public, not stock prices.

It should be treated as an academic endeavor. It should not be an "investment insurance" company.

I think it should stick to authentication (including alteration detection), and provide quality high-grade images for provenance, quality control and so people can grade fo themselves.

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I am not against a current board of experts being made to give opinions on the state of grading in the hobby. The hobby should start one right now, maybe something through SABR which is a well-known and respect non-profit academic group.