And with that, I am out of the grading game.

[Eric72]

Originally Posted by yanks87

I apparently need to get my head out of the sand. I also came up with an idea for a wireless phone...some would call it mobile. Could be big.

LOL. I often get the same feeling. It sometimes seems like all the original ideas have been taken...

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Eric72

LOL. I often get the same feeling. It sometimes seems like all the original ideas have been taken...

I often get the same feeling. It sometimes seems like all the original ideas have been taken...

[Snapolit1]

If grading isn't your thing, you shouldn't care on whit that other people feel differently. Seems like most of the people who rail about card grading claim not to even use it. Which is odd. If it's not your bag, it's not your bag.

I have both raw and graded. While the grading model has sort of collapsed onto itself because of a backlog of many millions of largely modern shiny cards, I'm not morally offended by the idea. I'm sure most hobbies have some equivalent where some third party passes judgment on the authenticity and perceived quality of different items. Are they infallible? Of course not. Is it necessary to enjoy an item? Of course not. I'm also sure as long as people have been collecting items for 1000s of years, there is always a part of the collector world that aspires to have the "best" of "nearly best" example of something as judged by others. Some dude in Ancient Egypt was probably setting up outside the pyramids grading wooden funeral figures on a scale of 1 to 10.

[RhodeyRhode]

Here is what it is because I could be one of them or my take on it in my perspective, you have the collectible market going crazy during shut downs, so former collectors go to their stash and look thru their cards. They look on ebay say holy crap look at that price, let me get it graded. Now, no one like that cares as much about the grading fee when the raw card they bought for 1-1000 dollars is now worth 500-100,000. So you get all these cards that were just sitting around that people would normally just sell raw if they want to get rid of being graded because the profit on them will still be so great.