Increase in low grade cards being graded

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

1. Sellers trying to entice newer collectors who are only used to buying slabbed material to buy their stuff BECAUSE it's slabbed (and now being offered at beyond full retail value).

2. Sellers who are only used to offering shiny stuff who think that everything needs to be slabbed in order to sell.

3. Collectors new to vintage but just used to slabs for their modern material, who think everything needs to be slabbed in order to be considered collectible.

I have never and will never understand this fixation with slabbing ("But it makes you more monnneyyy!!! It's impossible to sell anything without a slab!" If I have to hear this one more time...). I have over 150,000 autographed items that could fit in slabs. Forget about the cost, or that I'm more comfortable with my own knowledge over that of whoever determines if my signed item gets slabbed...can you imagine having 150,000 plastic clunkers in your possession? You'd have to buy a second house.