SGC has gotten tougher on centering

[puckpaul]

It has a lot of implications, one of which we already see in the record prices achieved for cards graded 1-3, which often look better than old 4-6 grades. People are buying the card more than ever except for registry people and really high end scarcities in grading. It makes grades more irrelevant other than being able to get graded instead of not-graded or Authentic. Even authentic’s trade well if they look nice. So…instead of increasing their relevance, the TPGs are decreasing it for most cards. I used to not look at 2’s and 3’s for cards i wanted to collect,now i welcome them because they might go cheaper and they often look great.