Grading head scratchers

[jchcollins]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Maybe?

But much more prevalent in their creation of half-grades was to generate millions of additional unnecessary submissions, and subsequent profits for their shareholders.

Yes, technically a "x.5" is whatever grade that did not meet the criteria for the next full grade, but with greater eye appeal. Eh, sometimes. I've seen it written in many places that centering is the most important criteria to get a .5 bump, and then in reality seen plenty of less than perfectly or sometimes even decently centered cards graded 4.5, 6.5, what have you. It’s subjectivity at best, a gimmick at the worst.

I would agree that revenue generation, and the idea of many more unnecessary submissions in the eyes of TPG executives was more responsible for them doing that than the need to improve the grading scale. That said...have I mentioned I love graded cards with the .5 bump!?! I know. But it's human nature. This card is that much more slightly better because it's a whatever, POINT FIVE. lol.