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Posted By: Dr.Koos

... At one time, one would assume they could buy professionally graded cards with utmost assurity but with what we've come to know and see, indicative of ALL grading companies..the errors, mislabels, gross incompetance in general, considering the service chosen is being entrusted to "save us from ourselves", that just isn't the case. Buying raw can be a daunting adventure, dependent on the seller's ability to grade, see defects clearly, and recognize alteration. The one factor that now sways me to be buying "raw" over graded items, in my opinion, is the right of RETURN. Something we usually don't touch upon. How many auctions of professionally graded cards carry the disclaimer, "since the card is professionally graded by ______ (fill in the blank), there are no returns on slabbed cards", or something to that effect. It all translates out to, "as is". The card comes in the mail, and whether or not you agree with the company's labeled grade, and whether or not you feel the card is trimmed (as is the case in one of the above threads..cards graded by PSA that most here feel are whacked), the card (and the curse it carries) are YOURS. Like it or lump it. I think I'd prefer to do my own grading and assessing from now on and summarily have the right to return the item if I find something amiss, or the card misgraded! With slabbed cards, your right of return is NEGATED. How this came about, this "traditional" auctioning of slabbed cards as "final sale", is beyond me. How buyers let sellers get away with it, FOR IT TO COME INTO PRACTICE, is a mystery to me! And I realize that there may be a few Sellers who DO accept returns on slabbed cards, but the majority DON'T.