My Crazy New Grading Idea Under 6 = Authentic

[ullmandds]

what about trimmed examples...are they still A too?

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

what about trimmed examples...are they still A too?

Yes this is the thing...how could a "5" get the same grade as a heavily trimmed card? Doesn't make sense to me

[Seven]

Practically my entire collection is now authentic!

In all seriousness, I care little for the graded number, I go strictly by eye appeal.

[nwobhm]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Yes this is the thing...how could a "5" get the same grade as a heavily trimmed card? Doesn't make sense to me

How can a card with a pencil or pen mark be considered bad and a signature be good? Is a 10 graded autograph still a 10 if there was a stray mark accidentally added at signing? So a 10(mk) …..

[perezfan]

How about we just go back to buying raw, and be our own judges of the cards' grade? If a card I want happens to be in a slab, I just crack it out anyway.

Way too much credence is given to the meaningless number on the slab. The hobby was much more fun before the sheep empowered these 3rd Party Dictators.

[butchie_t]

Well, it appears that regardless of perceived grade, if you send it to SGC, pretty danged good chance it will come back Authentic anyway.

Their, ummm, business model has changed somewhat. cough....

Butch Turner

[drcy]

There's great and unreasonable variance in condition and aesthetics in the Poor and Fair grading range. The grading scale is very uneven, and especially with F-P grades it really is buy the card not the holder.

[drcy]

Duly note that I've thought that all altered cards should get a Poor grade.