The Oaks Show and SGC Grading

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Wow John!
Were those Obaks sent in all at the same time? If they were, then I assume they were all being graded by the same person. How can there be that much difference (SGC70 to SGC50) with some of those? Some of those 50s look just as good as the 70s, if not better.

I collect only SGC graded T206s, as opposed to PSA, because I like the way they look in the holder. I have only sent in raw cards once or twice to SGC and have been very disappointed with the grades. Several were "A" for trimming when I was about as sure as I could be on one of the cards that it was never trimmed. Oh well.

As someone else said recently, I wish the grading standards were just "U" for Unaltered and "A" for Altered......or something like that and then let the buyer decide how much they like the card.

The only reason I buy graded cards now is that I buy about 99% of my cards online (eBay, BST, auction houses, etc.) and the first several that I bought online raw, were Trimmed. Therefore, I needed a TPG to tell me it was unaltered before I was going to send money to someone on the other side of the country.